Legal AI Glossary

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

A technique used to ensure AI answers are grounded in specific facts. In law, RAG allows an AI to "read" your firm's specific case files or a verified database of statutes before answering, reducing hallucinations.

Hallucination

When an AI model generates factually incorrect information that sounds plausible. In legal tech, this often manifests as cited cases that do not exist. Professional legal AI tools use grounding to prevent this.

Zero-Retention Policy

A critical security feature where the AI vendor promises not to save your data or use your confidential client documents to train their general models. Essential for maintaining attorney-client privilege.

Redlining (AI-Automated)

The process of an AI automatically suggesting edits and track-changes in a contract based on a firm's "playbook" or standard negotiating positions.