“Duo from London law firm self-report to the SRA after filing fake quotes generated by ChatGPT and 'infected' with AI”
CriticizesHallucinationUnverified voice
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AI for citation checking: what lawyers say.
What lawyers say about AI for citation checking. 290 public voices since 2023, as of : 59 like what they use and 206 do not. Most discussed: ChatGPT (157 voices, 18 like and 126 dislike); Claude (31 voices, 16 like and 11 dislike); Lexis+ AI (17 voices, 4 like and 12 dislike). The most common complaint is hallucination (171 voices) and the most common thing they value is accuracy (48 voices). The dated citation checking report has every tool with its voices and outside tests.
Fake cases, wrong pin cites and sanctions: the conversation about checking what AI cites. 290 voices on record since 2023: 59 like what they use, 206 don’t, the rest are mixed or neutral.
Quoted voices · newest first (205)
“Without a citation you verify everything; with one, only what's disputed.”
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
“If an #AI bro tells you that ChatGPT has “fixed the fabrication problem,” don’t “buy into the hype.””
CriticizesHallucinationUnverified voice
“He asked ChatGPT if Varghese v. China Southern Airlines was real. It said yes, and that it could be found on Westlaw and LexisNexis.”
CriticizesHallucinationUnverified voice
“It's marketed as "eliminating" the need to manually verify "AI-generated responses", but the terms of use say you're on your own.”
CriticizesTrust, liabilityUnverified voice
“Westlaw is free for pro se (i.e. via most public libraries), and ChatGPT computer/browser use can use KeyCite flawlessly.”
in “Is Chat GPT practicing law without a license?” · 6 voices
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
5 more voices in this thread
- r/Lawyertalk · Sep 29, 2026
ChatGPTCriticizes“I have received 3 calls asking for representation in the last 2 days bc ChatGPT told them there was a high chance of them going to prison based on what they put in.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Sep 28, 2026ChatGPTCriticizesSays ChatGPT gives wrong answers without pushback, wastes attorney time, strains client relationships and risks confidentiality breaches and discoverable material. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Sep 28, 2026ChatGPTValues
“I use ChatGPT all the time as it's incredibly helpful.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Sep 28, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“Now it’s ChatGPT instead of Mervis’s sister’s neighbor’s cousin, and both have about the same amount of knowledge and insight.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Sep 28, 2026ChatGPTNeutral
“I’m pretty sure legal at ChatGPT added a disclaimer that says it’s not giving legal or medical advice (content dependent).”
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“GPT-6 Astra didn't find the right case, but it didn't hallucinate any either. Anthropic models were better at finding the right case.”
in “Citation /Quote Hallucination Model Benchmark - And how often it finds the "right" case.” · 3 voices
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
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- r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ValuesA multi-stage citation validation process, with CoCounsel as the costly final check, catches miscites in opposing briefs and strengthens their own filings, and they see no need for Harvey. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026CoCounselValues
“About 99.5% of the time, the citations are absolutely perfect, which is better than the rate of human error.”
open
“About 99.5% of the time, the citations are absolutely perfect, which is better than the rate of human error.”
in “Citation /Quote Hallucination Model Benchmark - And how often it finds the "right" case.” · 3 voices
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
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- r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ValuesA multi-stage citation validation process, with CoCounsel as the costly final check, catches miscites in opposing briefs and strengthens their own filings, and they see no need for Harvey. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues
“GPT-6 Astra didn't find the right case, but it didn't hallucinate any either. Anthropic models were better at finding the right case.”
open
“Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel uses deep legal data to surface accurate citations, sidestepping the hallucinations common in other AI models.”
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
“One good aspect of Harvey is the ability to dump a ton of documents in a vault, but you can get the same effect by connecting GPT to a drive of some sort (Google/SharePoint).”
in “ChatGPT desktop app versus Claude desktop app versus Harvey” · 20 voices
ValuesEase of useUnverified voice
19 more voices in this thread
- r/legaltech · Sep 6, 2026CriticizesClient work should go through accounts under a business agreement, and personal-plan desktop apps raise a confidentiality problem the lawyer must own. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Sep 3, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude's desktop app wins for us mainly on local file and folder handling.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 3, 2026ChatGPTValues
“The formatting issue you noticed is actually pretty common because specialized legal wrappers often butcher Word document structure when converting file outputs, whereas ChatGPT handles native document rendering cleaner.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 2, 2026ValuesA litigator built a custom agent on Claude and GPT that drafted an appellate brief accepted by the clerk and outperforms the desktop apps. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Sep 2, 2026ClaudeMixed
“I gave the same example to Claude, and its PowerPoint looked almost exactly like the example, almost perfect visually, but it basically just lifted the text from the mediation brief verbatim.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 2, 2026ChatGPTNeutral
“The context and the prompt drive the results far more than any differences between the models themselves.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues
“Regarding ChatGPT vs. Claude - for me Claude brings back much better results while Chat acts a bit like a clueless intern.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“Yikes... I wouldn't go with "I think so," if you are dumping deposition transcript and other client sensitive information into ChatGPT.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026ClaudeMixed
“Claude is notarious for hitting usage limits, for sure. I like it's writing style better though.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026
HarveyMixed“Harvey-class tools rarely win on raw paragraph quality alone.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026NeutralA general LLM can handle a document vault and allows one corporate-level agreement, and data management choices are a matter for the IT department. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude Code can do everything the desktop version can do, but is easier to add skills, give access to an API, and build out exactly what I want.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizesFinds the personality given to Claude often annoying and off-putting. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ChatGPTValues
“I haven't tried Harvey but have been extensively testing Claude and Chat GPT (enterprise versions) since late last year and I agree about Chat GPT - to my surprise.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“Something like Harvey is little more than a wrapper around Claude or GTP so far as I can tell.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues
“Fable 5 turned out better and more thorough work than chatgpt's latest and greatest.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizes
“I hit usage limits with Claude Fable 5 sometimes, but I can use GPT on 5.6 with max all day and never have a limits issue.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues
“I find Claude to be extremely good for transactional legal work, with minimal hallucinations, and cautious in its outputs.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ChatGPTValues
“The cited cases have all been correct and pincited correctly. It cites depo transcripts precisely.”
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“Earlier this year I had a pro-se’s pleadings struck for repeatedly citing fake AI hallucinations.”
in “Just use AI people, save $10k, it's that simple.”
CriticizesHallucinationUnverified voice
“It is more respectful of PDFs than of word documents, and rarely edits documents you feed it as context -- but it can do so.”
in “Claude Litigation workflows?” · 24 voices
MixedTrust, liabilityUnverified voice
23 more voices in this thread
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 22, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe author downloads batches of Westlaw cases for each cause of action and prompts the AI one legal argument at a time. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 22, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe author built a Claude skill that logs into Lexis and downloads the cases cited in a document's argument section. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 22, 2026ClaudeValues
“I've never had any issues and I've been doing this for a couple years now.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeNeutral
“Team is a commercial tier with a DPA and no training by default, which is a real step up from a personal free/Pro login.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ValuesThe author prefers Legion for discovery because it is far easier to iterate on than wrestling with Claude, though the output is not perfect. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeCriticizes
“I've tried a few different configurations in Claude and it just is doing a terrible job - either it drafts way too much, or it drafts way too little and misses big things, with not much in between.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026NeutralThe author has used AI in litigation since ChatGPT launched and advises that curiosity and a framework like DRAFT are all a lawyer needs to apply it to pain points. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues
“I kick it over to my associate to cite check but at this point I've only ever seen him find a pincite off by a page.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude Team is good enough for most attorneys that don't have Fortune 500 clients with insane security/confidentiality requirements that require individual vendor signoffs.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeMixed
“I used to just let it do what it do, and it wasn’t bad. The citations were never a problem for me.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeNeutralA solo estate planning lawyer uses Claude and ChatGPT to write Python code that turns intake consultation notes into structured data, as a cheap home-built workflow. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“2nd on Protege…it’s so buggy and extremely limited as far as brainstorming.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeMixed
“Claude is better for emails and contract drafting but chatgpt is better for caselaw and motions/memorandum”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeNeutral
“Claude team is a commercial plan that has a DPA and by default does not train on the data.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues
“It is all about training Claude on Skills.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues
“Skills, instruction files that encode a whole process instead of a document format, are even more dialed in.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“Protege is too expensive for its ability right now imo”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues
“Every case citation I’ve gotten since connecting to Midpage has been right.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues
“I’m solo with one paralegal and it frees up so much time just getting a draft to play with motions and discoveries. Better than my paralegal could do.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues
“The big advantage is getting 80% of the work done in minutes, leaving me to spend my usually hours reviewing the cases and improving the analysis.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues
“Obviously I still check in on their work product and citations, but it’s improved the drafts substantially.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe firm moved its matter-organization rules into Claude Cowork skills, which walk staff through matter setup, create files and tasks, and remind them of trust account requirements. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues
“I created templates for some motions and it does some pretty solid first drafts for them and discovery.”
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“Running a brief through Westlaw cite check is insufficient IMO. It is just another AI platform.”
in “How does anyone think this is ok?” · 3 voices
CriticizesAccuracyUnverified voice
2 more voices in this thread
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 20, 2026CriticizesAI pin cites are unreliable even when the main case cite is right, and even the legal AI vendors warn users to double-check them. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 20, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“Protege is directly part of Lexis and still can’t be trusted.”
open
“It links you to every case so you can read it and ensure accuracy.”
in “Westlaw” · 14 voices
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
13 more voices in this thread
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 22, 2026Westlaw AIValues
“Throw those case in AI and I get to my next step in 20 minutes rather than 4 or 5 hours.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 17, 2026NeutralThe author no longer pays for Westlaw or Lexis, previously using free bar-provided FastCase and now usually using AI. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026ClaudeValuesThe author suggests replacing Westlaw with a $20 Claude subscription to find and analyze caselaw, while checking every case to rule out hallucination, and calls Enterprise Microsoft Copilot very useful. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“Some firms use cocounsel too much as a firm is facing a $20,000 sanctions hearing for citing hallucinatory cases in a lawsuit against the city.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026CoCounselMixed
“Cocounsel is pretty decent if you do a lot of legal research.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes
“The AI now won’t even give me statutory text at the beginning of a search when I’m looking for a statute.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026
ClioValues“I just signed up for Clio work and love it so far.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026ClaudeValues
“Vlex (usually free through your local bar) and Claude + a courtlistener plugin like DingDuff are almost as good and cost basically nothing.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026Westlaw AIValues
“Yes, Westlaw has its own AI and it’s very helpful.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026Westlaw AIValues
“While I wouldn’t trust the analysis it provides without thoroughly reviewing the cases it cites, I think it’s a good starting point.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026CriticizesThe author avoids paid Westlaw and AI, using free bar-provided Decisis and Google Scholar instead, and calls AI output slop. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026MixedAI is faster for a first pass at finding cases but weak on completeness, so every case must be verified like a junior's memo and client facts kept out of consumer tools. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026Westlaw AIMixed
“Westlaw does have an AI bot now that is pretty decent at fetching cases, though it will at times miss issues and thus cases, or turn up cases that are not useful, or miss the holding's logic.”
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“Well obviously I’m not one of these idiots that just cuts and pastes whatever ChatGPT spits out. I always go through and check all the cites, and usually add or delete things and amend things”
in “Help please. I'm getting pigeon-holed and I don't like it.” · 2 voices
NeutralCitation checkingUnverified voice
“I feel like it rarely hallucinates now and you can double check (obviously you should be doing this anyways)”
in “If you don’t want AI to take our jobs then stop relying on AI to do you job”
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
“Connect it and let it verify research. Prompt as usual. Shepardize the final product. I love perplexity for this.”
in “Perplexity Max Secret Talent” · 4 voices
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
3 more voices in this thread
- r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026PerplexityNeutralDescribes a workflow using Perplexity for research, Claude for reviewing citations and quotes, and Lexis for pulling and Shepardizing cases, while stressing that human verification remains necessary. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Jul 18, 2026PerplexityValues
“My experience is output for Claude model inside Perplexity is better (my subjective evaluation mostly but I think objectively in many cases).”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 17, 2026PerplexityValues
“My experience is that ChatGPT 5.6 inside Perplexity Max with web search disabled and provided grounded sources is the best chat/strategy/drafting AI on the market.”
open
“Just thought the findings were interesting--namely, Anthropic's models (except for Haiku) producing zero hallucinated cases.”
in “Show HN: LitigationBench. A Litigation Task-Based AI Benchmark”
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
“In the one case the client incorporated the changes in redline and mentioned that they were from Westlaw AI so I checked the citations and found a couple were inaccurate or misleading and (gently) told her that.”
in “Co-counsel butchered my draft with AI” · 2 voices
CriticizesHallucinationUnverified voice
“Using these without Westlaw/Lexis being able to determine if the cases are real is a disaster waiting to happen.”
in “Small Operation Estimated Costs”
CriticizesTrust, liabilityUnverified voice
“When I was taking certification classes last year, if I gave chatgpt the exact information I needed formatted into a citation it worked just fine.”
in “Why can't Harvey or AI do Bluebook citations?” · 5 voices
ValuesDrafting qualityUnverified voice
4 more voices in this thread
- r/legaltech · Jul 29, 2026CriticizesNo LLM should decide whether a legal proposition holds because fabrication remains possible, even in purpose-built grounded tools that Stanford found hallucinating 17 to 33 percent of the time. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Jul 10, 2026ClaudeValues
“Formatting was never the hard part — Claude nails Bluebook form in a couple passes.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 9, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude + Midpage connector and you get near zero case hallucinations and pin cite support.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 8, 2026ClaudeMixed
“Checking for pincites though is hard. Almost all websites hosting case law have anti-AI technology meaning it will likely use its training data and hallucinate.”
open
“Formatting was never the hard part — Claude nails Bluebook form in a couple passes.”
in “Why can't Harvey or AI do Bluebook citations?” · 5 voices
ValuesDrafting qualityUnverified voice
4 more voices in this thread
- r/legaltech · Jul 29, 2026CriticizesNo LLM should decide whether a legal proposition holds because fabrication remains possible, even in purpose-built grounded tools that Stanford found hallucinating 17 to 33 percent of the time. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ChatGPTValues
“When I was taking certification classes last year, if I gave chatgpt the exact information I needed formatted into a citation it worked just fine.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 9, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude + Midpage connector and you get near zero case hallucinations and pin cite support.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 8, 2026ClaudeMixed
“Checking for pincites though is hard. Almost all websites hosting case law have anti-AI technology meaning it will likely use its training data and hallucinate.”
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“Across 8 ChatGPT generations, GPT-5.1 fabricates legal cites at at least 6.57%, which is a significant jump from early GPT-4o.”
CriticizesHallucinationUnverified voice
“Newer models are getting much better at not hallucinating German case law though :)”
in “GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper”
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
“Claude + Midpage connector and you get near zero case hallucinations and pin cite support.”
in “Why can't Harvey or AI do Bluebook citations?” · 5 voices
ValuesAccuracyUnverified voice
4 more voices in this thread
- r/legaltech · Jul 29, 2026CriticizesNo LLM should decide whether a legal proposition holds because fabrication remains possible, even in purpose-built grounded tools that Stanford found hallucinating 17 to 33 percent of the time. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ChatGPTValues
“When I was taking certification classes last year, if I gave chatgpt the exact information I needed formatted into a citation it worked just fine.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 10, 2026ClaudeValues
“Formatting was never the hard part — Claude nails Bluebook form in a couple passes.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 8, 2026ClaudeMixed
“Checking for pincites though is hard. Almost all websites hosting case law have anti-AI technology meaning it will likely use its training data and hallucinate.”
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“Checking for pincites though is hard. Almost all websites hosting case law have anti-AI technology meaning it will likely use its training data and hallucinate.”
in “Why can't Harvey or AI do Bluebook citations?” · 5 voices
MixedHallucinationUnverified voice
4 more voices in this thread
- r/legaltech · Jul 29, 2026CriticizesNo LLM should decide whether a legal proposition holds because fabrication remains possible, even in purpose-built grounded tools that Stanford found hallucinating 17 to 33 percent of the time. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ChatGPTValues
“When I was taking certification classes last year, if I gave chatgpt the exact information I needed formatted into a citation it worked just fine.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 10, 2026ClaudeValues
“Formatting was never the hard part — Claude nails Bluebook form in a couple passes.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 9, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude + Midpage connector and you get near zero case hallucinations and pin cite support.”
open
“They seem to focus more on generating a big, fancy AI report about the brief rather than just letting me download the cases themselves.”
in “Advice needed: Efficiently pulling cited cases from opponent’s PDF briefs?” · 2 voices
CriticizesIntegrationUnverified voice
“What I find are real cases but misquoted and irrelevant. Protege is very expensive and a huge rip off.”
in “Beware Lexis AI Protege” · 14 voices
CriticizesPriceUnverified voice
13 more voices in this thread
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026ClaudeValues
“I would say Claude and Westlaw are about the same, but Claude is more useful because it can do a lot more than legal research.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed
“It can help give me a good basic draft that I can heavily edit from there but I have to check everything before I finalize.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“Even in fall 2024 when I opened my solo shop the lexis rep was still saying that their AI would never hallucinate”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesCriticizes Lexis for not paying the compute cost to validate its own citations with a second pass, which reflects poorly on the product. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesLexis advertised its AI as free of fabricated citations, and the author finds that claim brazen. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesThe author once liked Lexis and its AI but says Protege's quality has declined, so Westlaw now comes out ahead. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026CoCounselValues
“Honestly it's been pretty useful this summer for me considering the low level of effort cocounsel requires.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It definitely gets things wrong but hasn't full-scale hallucinated yet.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AINeutral
“Lexis is the premier legal research tool along with WestLaw, presumabaly their AI tools should be top notch and not hallucinating since they own the databases.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed
“Whenever I try to use Protege for research it seems to give me cases that really just stand for very general legal propositions, often tenuously.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“A Lexis product shouldn't be fabricating cites.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“According to big brother Chat GPT, lil sis Lexis Protege is guilty of the following: * a real case name from another jurisdiction;”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“When I tried to Sheperdize the cite, it became apparent this little nugget was cut from whole cloth.”
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“When I tried to Sheperdize the cite, it became apparent this little nugget was cut from whole cloth.”
in “Beware Lexis AI Protege” · 14 voices
CriticizesHallucinationUnverified voice
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- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026ClaudeValues
“I would say Claude and Westlaw are about the same, but Claude is more useful because it can do a lot more than legal research.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“What I find are real cases but misquoted and irrelevant. Protege is very expensive and a huge rip off.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed
“It can help give me a good basic draft that I can heavily edit from there but I have to check everything before I finalize.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“Even in fall 2024 when I opened my solo shop the lexis rep was still saying that their AI would never hallucinate”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesCriticizes Lexis for not paying the compute cost to validate its own citations with a second pass, which reflects poorly on the product. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesLexis advertised its AI as free of fabricated citations, and the author finds that claim brazen. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesThe author once liked Lexis and its AI but says Protege's quality has declined, so Westlaw now comes out ahead. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026CoCounselValues
“Honestly it's been pretty useful this summer for me considering the low level of effort cocounsel requires.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It definitely gets things wrong but hasn't full-scale hallucinated yet.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AINeutral
“Lexis is the premier legal research tool along with WestLaw, presumabaly their AI tools should be top notch and not hallucinating since they own the databases.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed
“Whenever I try to use Protege for research it seems to give me cases that really just stand for very general legal propositions, often tenuously.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“A Lexis product shouldn't be fabricating cites.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“According to big brother Chat GPT, lil sis Lexis Protege is guilty of the following: * a real case name from another jurisdiction;”
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“According to big brother Chat GPT, lil sis Lexis Protege is guilty of the following: * a real case name from another jurisdiction;”
in “Beware Lexis AI Protege” · 14 voices
CriticizesHallucinationUnverified voice
13 more voices in this thread
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026ClaudeValues
“I would say Claude and Westlaw are about the same, but Claude is more useful because it can do a lot more than legal research.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“What I find are real cases but misquoted and irrelevant. Protege is very expensive and a huge rip off.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed
“It can help give me a good basic draft that I can heavily edit from there but I have to check everything before I finalize.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“Even in fall 2024 when I opened my solo shop the lexis rep was still saying that their AI would never hallucinate”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesCriticizes Lexis for not paying the compute cost to validate its own citations with a second pass, which reflects poorly on the product. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesLexis advertised its AI as free of fabricated citations, and the author finds that claim brazen. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesThe author once liked Lexis and its AI but says Protege's quality has declined, so Westlaw now comes out ahead. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026CoCounselValues
“Honestly it's been pretty useful this summer for me considering the low level of effort cocounsel requires.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It definitely gets things wrong but hasn't full-scale hallucinated yet.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AINeutral
“Lexis is the premier legal research tool along with WestLaw, presumabaly their AI tools should be top notch and not hallucinating since they own the databases.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed
“Whenever I try to use Protege for research it seems to give me cases that really just stand for very general legal propositions, often tenuously.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“A Lexis product shouldn't be fabricating cites.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes
“When I tried to Sheperdize the cite, it became apparent this little nugget was cut from whole cloth.”
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These voices are lawyers worrying about fake cases and wrong cites from their side of the desk. The court side, decisions where AI-made citations reached a filing and what judges did about it, is tracked case by case in the Legal AI Risk tracker.