Legal Guidance in the Wild: How Users Seek Legal Help in Real-World LLM Conversations
People ask conversational AI models about their legal rights, obligations, procedures, and personal situations that may have legal consequences. To study this behavior, we first need to distinguish requests for legal guidance from other legally themed discussions and unrelated conversations. We contribute a multi-axis taxonomy of legal queries capturing whether legal guidance is sought, how a request is formulated, and which legal domains it concerns; apply it to 2,122 naturally occurring WildChat-1M conversations; and create a human-reviewed gold evaluation set of 200 conversations. All annotations, model checkpoints, and evaluation code are publicly available. In this enriched sample, 7...
| Authors | Amirreza Mohseni, Gerasimos Spanakis |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 18 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 18 October 2026 |
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