About

legalai.help is a free, plain-English glossary of the AI vocabulary legal professionals keep encountering, in vendor pitches, ethics opinions, CLE sessions, and their own firms. Definitions are written to be quoted: self-contained, accurate, and including the legal-practice angle where one exists.

How definitions are written

Each term gets a short definition (forty words or fewer, designed to stand alone) and a longer plain-English explanation. Where a term carries practice implications, confidentiality, verification, governance, the entry says so neutrally without turning into advice. Definitions are reviewed against current usage and re-dated when they change; terms link to mainstream further reading where a reliable reference exists.

What this site deliberately is not

It is not a compliance resource: the binding rules on lawyers using AI live atLegal AI Compliance Tracker, our companion site, with every state bar opinion and court rule verified against primary sources. It is not a product review site: thevendor landscape maps categories and diligence questions, never rankings. And it is not gated: everything here is free to read and quote with attribution.

Who maintains it

MHSB Solutions, Research desk. MHSB Solutions is not a law firm. This glossary is educational information, not legal advice. MHSB Solutions is a legal technology and operations consultancy; this glossary and the companion tracker are the research layer it maintains in public.

Educational information, not legal advice. AI terminology and tools change quickly; definitions reflect usage as of the last-updated date. For what bar associations and courts actually require of lawyers using AI, see legalaicompliance.help and consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.