Why It Matters
The term is often used dismissively, but nearly every legal AI tool is a wrapper in this sense. The real differences are in the legal content it can search, how well it handles your documents, its security terms and how well it fits the way your team works.
Related Terms
- Foundation model
- A large, general-purpose AI model trained on broad data that other products are built on top of. Most LLMs are foundation models.
- RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)
- An AI technique that first looks up relevant documents, such as cases or your contracts, and then has the model answer from what it found.
- AI agent
- An AI system that carries out a multi-step task on its own, such as gathering documents, reviewing them against a checklist and drafting a summary, rather than answering a single prompt.
General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.