Maastricht Study Annotates 2,122 Real LLM Chats to Map How Users Seek Legal Guidance
Amirreza Mohseni · hf · 2026-10-21
A Maastricht University paper, 'Legal Guidance in the Wild,' examines how users seek legal help in real-world LLM conversations.
- The authors build a multi-axis taxonomy capturing whether legal guidance is sought, how it is formulated, and which legal domains it concerns, applied to 2,122 naturally occurring conversations.
- They benchmark ModernBERT models against a baseline for detecting legal guidance queries.
- The work separates genuine legal-guidance requests from loosely legal-themed chat, grounding compliance and safety design for LLMs in legal contexts.
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