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 at Legal 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: the vendor 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.