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Glossary
The language of
AI-powered litigation.
Plain-English definitions of the litigation, security, and AI terms used across OurFirm.ai, for lawyers, general counsel, and security reviewers evaluating the platform.
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Affirmative Defense
Litigation
A defense that, if proven, defeats or reduces a claim even when the plaintiff's allegations are true, raised in the defendant's answer. OurFirm.ai drafts answers and affirmative defenses from the pleadings and record.
Agent Swarm
AI & Product
OurFirm.ai's architecture in which multiple specialized AI sub-agents work in parallel (one researching, one drafting, one verifying citations, one formatting) rather than a single chatbot answering a prompt.
Agentic Drafting
AI & Product
AI that carries out a multi-step legal task end to end (researching, drafting, and self-checking) instead of returning a single generated response. OurFirm.ai's Legal Assistant drafts court-ready documents this way.
Appellate Brief
Litigation
The written argument submitted to an appeals court asking it to affirm or reverse a lower court's decision. It is one of the document types OurFirm.ai is built to draft.
Attorney-Client Privilege
Litigation
The legal protection that keeps confidential communications between a lawyer and client from being disclosed. OurFirm.ai is architected to preserve privilege (contractually, no client data trains any AI model), a concern brought into focus for AI-assisted work by Heppner v. United States.
B
Bail Application
Litigation
A motion asking the court to release a defendant from custody pending trial, usually on conditions. One of the litigation documents OurFirm.ai can draft.
Business Associate Agreement (BAA)
Security & Compliance
A HIPAA-required contract governing how a vendor handles protected health information. OurFirm.ai offers a HIPAA-aligned BAA and has executed BAAs with its AI subprocessors.
C
Case Research
Platform
OurFirm.ai's AI legal research capability, which finds controlling and persuasive authority (with the holding, quote, and subsequent history) across its own nationwide caselaw and docket data.
CCPA
Security & Compliance
The California Consumer Privacy Act, a state data-privacy law. OurFirm.ai's Data Processing Addendum is aligned with CCPA and GDPR.
Check My Cites
Platform
OurFirm.ai's citation-verification pipeline. Every citation runs through extraction, treatment checking, quote verification, pin-cite confirmation, and proposition analysis, producing a verification report before filing.
Chronology
Litigation
A time-ordered account of the facts of a case, built from the record. OurFirm.ai extracts chronologies and timelines automatically from uploaded documents and transcripts.
Client Portal
Platform
OurFirm.ai's privilege-protected workspace for collaborating with clients: sharing documents and updates without waiving attorney-client privilege, with a full audit trail.
Controlling Authority
Litigation
A precedent a court is bound to follow because it comes from a higher court in the same jurisdiction, as opposed to persuasive authority, which a court may consider but need not follow. OurFirm.ai research surfaces both.
Court-Ready
Platform
OurFirm.ai's standard for output: work product that is verified, correctly formatted, and grounded in the record, ready to file rather than an unreviewed first draft.
D
Data Processing Addendum (DPA)
Security & Compliance
A contract term governing how a vendor processes personal data on a customer's behalf. OurFirm.ai's DPA is aligned with GDPR and CCPA and is available on request.
Daubert Briefing
Litigation
Motion practice over whether expert testimony is admissible, named for Daubert v. Merrell Dow. A common commercial-litigation workflow OurFirm.ai supports.
Demand Letter
Litigation
A pre-suit letter setting out a claim and the compensation sought, common in personal-injury practice. OurFirm.ai drafts demands grounded in the medical records and treatment timeline.
Deposition
Litigation
Sworn, out-of-court testimony taken before trial and recorded in a transcript. OurFirm.ai digests deposition transcripts and extracts cross-examination and impeachment points.
Discovery
Litigation
The pre-trial phase in which parties exchange evidence: documents, interrogatories, depositions, and more. Productions can arrive measured in gigabytes; OurFirm.ai's Discovery Review reads them and surfaces what matters.
Dispositive Motion
Litigation
A motion that can resolve a case or claim outright, such as a motion to dismiss or for summary judgment. OurFirm.ai drafts dispositive motions grounded in the record and controlling law.
Docket
Litigation
The official chronological record of filings and events in a case. OurFirm.ai runs semantic search across docket data from NYSCEF and PACER.
E
EEOC
Litigation
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which handles workplace-discrimination charges. OurFirm.ai drafts EEOC-ready position statements for employment-litigation defense.
F
Frontier Model
AI & Product
A state-of-the-art general-purpose large language model, such as those from Anthropic or OpenAI. OurFirm.ai builds litigation tooling and its own legal data layer on top of frontier models rather than relying on a raw model alone.
G
GDPR
Security & Compliance
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. OurFirm.ai's Data Processing Addendum is aligned with GDPR.
Grounding
AI & Product
Constraining an AI's output to a verified source (here, the case record and real law) so answers are traceable rather than invented. OurFirm.ai's work product is grounded in the record and jurisdiction-specific rules.
H
Hallucination
AI & Product
When an AI generates plausible-sounding but false content, most dangerously fabricated case citations. OurFirm.ai combines grounding with Check My Cites; zero hallucinated citations have been filed by its users.
Heppner v. United States
Litigation
The federal ruling that addressed attorney-client privilege in the context of AI-assisted legal work. OurFirm.ai's Client Portal and privilege architecture were designed with this decision in mind.
HIPAA
Security & Compliance
The U.S. law protecting health information. OurFirm.ai supports HIPAA-aligned workflows for matters involving protected health information, backed by a HIPAA-aligned BAA.
I
Impeachment
Litigation
Challenging a witness's credibility at trial, often with prior inconsistent statements from a transcript. OurFirm.ai organizes transcript excerpts for impeachment and cross-examination.
Inference
AI & Product
The step where an AI model processes an input and produces an output. On OurFirm.ai there is zero data retention beyond the session for inference, so your data is not kept after the request.
Interrogatories
Litigation
Written questions one party serves on another in discovery, which must be answered under oath. OurFirm.ai drafts interrogatories and responses.
J
Judge Intelligence
Platform
OurFirm.ai's judicial-analytics capability. It builds behavioral profiles of judges from opinions, transcripts, and docket entries, surfacing motion-outcome rates, argument preferences, and decision timing. The interactive profiles are called Judge AI.
L
Large Language Model (LLM)
AI & Product
An AI model trained on vast text that generates and understands natural language. General LLMs like ChatGPT are not built for litigation; OurFirm.ai wraps models in legal data, retrieval, and verification.
Legal Assistant
Platform
OurFirm.ai's agentic drafting and research engine. Attorneys upload their case files and receive a complete, court-ready draft grounded in the record and jurisdiction-specific rules.
M
Master Service Agreement (MSA)
Security & Compliance
The overarching contract that governs an ongoing customer relationship. OurFirm.ai accepts custom MSA redlines for enterprise clients.
Mata v. Avianca
Litigation
A widely cited case in which lawyers were sanctioned for filing a brief containing fake, AI-hallucinated citations, the cautionary example behind OurFirm.ai's citation-verification approach.
Matter
Litigation
A single case or engagement a firm is handling. OurFirm.ai isolates data per matter, per attorney, and per firm so work is never co-mingled.
McDonnell Douglas Framework
Litigation
The burden-shifting test courts use to analyze employment-discrimination claims, from McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green. OurFirm.ai's employment drafting tracks this framework.
Meet and Confer
Litigation
The requirement that parties confer in good faith to resolve a discovery dispute before bringing it to the court, typically a prerequisite to a motion to compel.
Motion in Limine
Litigation
A pre-trial motion (MIL) asking the court to admit or exclude specific evidence before it reaches the jury. One of the motion types OurFirm.ai drafts.
Motion to Compel
Litigation
A motion asking the court to order an opposing party to produce discovery it has withheld. Judge Intelligence surfaces how specific judges rule on motions to compel.
Motion to Suppress
Litigation
A motion to exclude evidence obtained in violation of a defendant's rights, central to criminal defense, for example a Fourth Amendment or Miranda challenge. OurFirm.ai drafts suppression motions from the record.
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NYSCEF
Platform
The New York State Courts Electronic Filing system. OurFirm.ai runs semantic docket search across NYSCEF alongside PACER.
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PACER
Platform
Public Access to Court Electronic Records, the U.S. federal courts' filing system. OurFirm.ai maintains a semantically searchable PACER database that is updated daily.
Per-Firm Isolation
Security & Compliance
Architecting the platform so each firm's data is segregated (down to the attorney and conversation level) and never co-mingled with another firm's. A core part of OurFirm.ai's security posture.
Pin Cite
Litigation
A citation to the exact page a proposition appears on, not just the first page of a case. Check My Cites confirms every pin cite against the correct page.
Pleading
Litigation
A formal court filing that states a party's claims or defenses, such as a complaint or answer. OurFirm.ai drafts pleadings using jurisdiction-specific templates.
Privilege Log
Litigation
An index of documents withheld from discovery on privilege grounds, describing each without revealing its contents. OurFirm.ai helps generate privilege logs during document review.
R
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
AI & Product
A technique that retrieves relevant source documents and feeds them to a language model so its output is grounded in real material. OurFirm.ai uses retrieval built specifically for law across its own caselaw and docket data.
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Semantic Search
AI & Product
Search that matches on meaning rather than exact keywords. OurFirm.ai runs semantic docket search across NYSCEF and PACER and its nationwide caselaw database.
Sentencing Memorandum
Litigation
A brief submitted before sentencing that argues for a particular outcome. One of the litigation documents OurFirm.ai drafts.
SOC 2
Security & Compliance
An independent audit standard for how a service manages security and customer data. OurFirm.ai's SOC 2 Type I report is available under NDA, and a Type II examination is underway.
Subprocessor
Security & Compliance
A third-party service a vendor uses to process customer data, such as an infrastructure or AI provider. OurFirm.ai maintains a subprocessor list and has executed BAAs with its AI subprocessors.
Subsequent History
Litigation
What happened to a case after the cited decision: whether it was affirmed, reversed, vacated, or superseded. Citation Verification checks subsequent history so you never rely on bad law.
Summary Judgment
Litigation
A ruling that decides a claim without trial because there is no genuine dispute of material fact. Judge Intelligence surfaces judge-specific summary-judgment grant rates.
T
TLS 1.3
Security & Compliance
The current version of the Transport Layer Security protocol that encrypts data in transit. OurFirm.ai uses TLS 1.3 to protect data moving between you and the platform.
Treatment (Citation Treatment)
Litigation
How later courts have treated a case: followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled. Check My Cites runs negative-treatment checks (the Shepardization equivalent) on every citation.
V
Voir Dire
Litigation
The jury-selection process in which lawyers and the court question prospective jurors. OurFirm.ai supports voir dire and other trial-preparation work.
W
Work Product
Litigation
An attorney's litigation materials (notes, strategy, drafts) protected from disclosure by the work-product doctrine. On OurFirm.ai your work product stays your work product; it is never used to train AI models.
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Zero Data Retention
Security & Compliance
A guarantee that data is not stored after it is processed. OurFirm.ai retains zero data beyond the session for inference, and client documents never train any AI model.
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