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AI for contract review: what lawyers say.
What lawyers say about AI for contract review. 305 public voices since 2023, as of : 151 like what they use and 81 do not. Most discussed: Claude (65 voices, 41 like and 11 dislike); ChatGPT (57 voices, 20 like and 26 dislike); Spellbook (51 voices, 30 like and 10 dislike). The most common complaint is accuracy (82 voices) and the most common thing they value is time saved (67 voices). The dated contract review report has every tool with its voices and outside tests.
Redlines, clause review and NDAs: what lawyers say about AI on contracts. 305 voices on record since 2023: 151 like what they use, 81 don’t, the rest are mixed or neutral.
Quoted voices · newest first (222)
“Ai generally only work with what's avoailavle and unless you specifcally ask for it, it wont question it.”
in “GLM-Legal” · 5 voices
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- Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeCriticizes
“It sounds egregious, but Anthropic is clearly stating they will use their own judgment to control what people can do with its product, and that they will treat customer data as if it's theirs to disseminate.”
open - Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeValues
“I tried using Claude first, and even my lawyer was impressed that it found things they missed.”
open - Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeValuesHallucination is no longer a major problem in agentic work, and checking whether a case exists or supports an argument looks solvable with research agents, as the author already does daily with Claude. (summary, not a quote)open
- Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ValuesGLM-Legal's 20% on Harvey's Legal Agent benchmark is near the top of all models and the best for its price class, well above Opus 5.5's 4%. (summary, not a quote)open
“I tried using Claude first, and even my lawyer was impressed that it found things they missed.”
in “GLM-Legal” · 5 voices
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- Hacker News · Oct 13, 2026ClaudeMixed
“Ai generally only work with what's avoailavle and unless you specifcally ask for it, it wont question it.”
open - Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeCriticizes
“It sounds egregious, but Anthropic is clearly stating they will use their own judgment to control what people can do with its product, and that they will treat customer data as if it's theirs to disseminate.”
open - Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeValuesHallucination is no longer a major problem in agentic work, and checking whether a case exists or supports an argument looks solvable with research agents, as the author already does daily with Claude. (summary, not a quote)open
- Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ValuesGLM-Legal's 20% on Harvey's Legal Agent benchmark is near the top of all models and the best for its price class, well above Opus 5.5's 4%. (summary, not a quote)open
“Claude is better than a junior associate at all non-human interaction legal tasks now.”
in “AT&T is cutting its spending on law firms. AI is a big reason why.” · 6 voices
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- r/biglaw · Oct 11, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“It’s CoCounsel that is downright alarming to me with how much it hallucinates.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026ClaudeValues
“I’ve seen the numbers and the AI tooling has paid for itself many times over vs legacy legal spend.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 9, 2026ClaudeValuesAs in-house counsel, finds that tailoring projects in Claude has removed most need to send business-specific legal work to large outside firms, whose results were weaker. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/biglaw · Oct 9, 2026
HarveyCriticizes“Hard to see how that is really worth the cost savings of just having us do it right form the start.”
open - r/biglaw · Oct 9, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes
“It produces some great work product if you don't mind that how confidently wrong it is 50% of the time.”
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“It seems to be unable to "think" laterally and commercially for legal and contractual analysis.”
in “Sol v astra for legal work”
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“Spellbook is probably the strongest fit, but not sure the price will be in the $200 range.”
in “Legal AI for a family office” · 7 voices
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- r/legaltech · Sep 29, 2026ClaudeValues
“I created a software for my girlfriend (she is a lawyer) without spending anything (apart from my 20$/month Claude subscription).”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 27, 2026Values
“Spellbook - best $350/mo you’ll ever spend.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues
“Most legal products use the same frontier models. The key to getting the most from Claude or ChatGPT is context and prompt enginerring, which is what lawyers like me bring to the table.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues
“Vanilla Claude and ChatGPT may be good enough.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues
“The model layer tooling. Whether Claude for legal, Astra for Law etc. are really good.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026MixedSuggests an open-source tool or Spellbook for a small budget but warns that low-quality AI output in legal work is still very risky. (summary, not a quote)open
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“I've also been using Spellbook on cease & desist demands and other regulatory adversarial correspondence, and it's been helpful.”
in “Spellbook AI Oura Ring Promo” · 3 voices
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“No connection to the company - its just the best standalone AI product I've found in all that I've tested.”
in “Astra for Law: the good, bad, and ugly” · 4 voices
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- r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026Criticizes
“Out of say, 30 comments it had in analyzing an agreement, most seemed like noise (possibly technically valid, but not helpful) and one or two were interesting and useful but far from being worth the fee.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026Values
“Fantastic at transactional playbooks, compare to market, create new drafts, etc.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026
ChatGPTValues“Small open source models and chatgpt pro can do it (depending on your repository size.) I built a small tool that does it for my firm.”
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“Fantastic at transactional playbooks, compare to market, create new drafts, etc.”
in “Astra for Law: the good, bad, and ugly” · 4 voices
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- r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026Values
“No connection to the company - its just the best standalone AI product I've found in all that I've tested.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026Criticizes
“Out of say, 30 comments it had in analyzing an agreement, most seemed like noise (possibly technically valid, but not helpful) and one or two were interesting and useful but far from being worth the fee.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026ChatGPTValues
“Small open source models and chatgpt pro can do it (depending on your repository size.) I built a small tool that does it for my firm.”
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“Out of say, 30 comments it had in analyzing an agreement, most seemed like noise (possibly technically valid, but not helpful) and one or two were interesting and useful but far from being worth the fee.”
in “Astra for Law: the good, bad, and ugly” · 4 voices
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- r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026Values
“No connection to the company - its just the best standalone AI product I've found in all that I've tested.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026Values
“Fantastic at transactional playbooks, compare to market, create new drafts, etc.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026ChatGPTValues
“Small open source models and chatgpt pro can do it (depending on your repository size.) I built a small tool that does it for my firm.”
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“I find that when I feed contracts to ChatGPT (which I do all the time) it will try to find 50 things wrong with it.”
in “Astra for Law” · 11 voices
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- Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ClaudeValuesRecommends cross-checking legal documents across multiple models (Claude review, GPT drafting, Gemini, Copilot) and still having a real lawyer verify. (summary, not a quote)open
- Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“Since this is a thread about using ChatGPT for law, I should note that this is actually one of the most important reasons you'd rather hire a lawyer than ChatGPT to represent you.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026
LegoraCriticizes“We also tried Legora's tabular review, there were also numerous halucinated provisions in our due diligence exercise.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ValuesHaving several AI models critique each other's work has raised output from a high-school intern to a second-year lawyer in a year, though it still does not match experts, and AI will increase litigation volume rather than replace lawyers. (summary, not a quote)open
- Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026LegoraValues
“Switching from ChatGPT Enterprise to Legora at my firm was a godsend.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeValues
“The work still must be reviewed by an attorney - Claude is nowhere near making the kinds of judgments a lawyer would make about this content - but it has increased their throughput from 2-3 documents an hour to 8-10 documents an hour by killing the busy work.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ChatGPTValues
“If both parties use ChatGPT to find the relevant laws or read contracts, they could come to an agreement without expensive legal fees.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed
“It's good for research and data organization, but terrible for drafting.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed
“In other cases/situations, I’ve tried just giving a model access to all the docs and saying “write a brief arguing X,” but it’s always terrible at this.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026NeutralNotes that Astra for Law scores slightly below Claude and Muse on a legal research benchmark, without praising or criticizing it. (summary, not a quote)open
“We also tried Legora's tabular review, there were also numerous halucinated provisions in our due diligence exercise.”
in “Astra for Law” · 11 voices
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- Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ClaudeValuesRecommends cross-checking legal documents across multiple models (Claude review, GPT drafting, Gemini, Copilot) and still having a real lawyer verify. (summary, not a quote)open
- Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“Since this is a thread about using ChatGPT for law, I should note that this is actually one of the most important reasons you'd rather hire a lawyer than ChatGPT to represent you.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ValuesHaving several AI models critique each other's work has raised output from a high-school intern to a second-year lawyer in a year, though it still does not match experts, and AI will increase litigation volume rather than replace lawyers. (summary, not a quote)open
- Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“I find that when I feed contracts to ChatGPT (which I do all the time) it will try to find 50 things wrong with it.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026LegoraValues
“Switching from ChatGPT Enterprise to Legora at my firm was a godsend.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeValues
“The work still must be reviewed by an attorney - Claude is nowhere near making the kinds of judgments a lawyer would make about this content - but it has increased their throughput from 2-3 documents an hour to 8-10 documents an hour by killing the busy work.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ChatGPTValues
“If both parties use ChatGPT to find the relevant laws or read contracts, they could come to an agreement without expensive legal fees.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed
“It's good for research and data organization, but terrible for drafting.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed
“In other cases/situations, I’ve tried just giving a model access to all the docs and saying “write a brief arguing X,” but it’s always terrible at this.”
open - Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026NeutralNotes that Astra for Law scores slightly below Claude and Muse on a legal research benchmark, without praising or criticizing it. (summary, not a quote)open
“It's not an original product in the truest sense, but it is marketed very well.”
in “Does anyone find that ChatGPT is just as good as Harvey for legal research?” · 18 voices
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- r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026PerplexityValues
“It saves so much time and finds cases others have not.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026LegoraCriticizes
“Harvey and ChatGPT enterprise offer the exact same controls regarding model training. Legora offers WORSE than chatgpt enterprise.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“Try asking Harvey to create a PowerPoint. But Claude can do it just fine.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“If you’re using Harvey, you’re being duped.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026Westlaw AIValuesWestlaw has the better research tool, so Harvey should not be used for legal research. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026ChatGPTValues
“ChatGPT, a more general tool available at modest prices, seems to do as good a job for that as Harvey, which is supposedly a more sophisticated product for legal professionals and is of course way more costly.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyNeutral
“Harvey is just a wrapper for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. You can literally choose which to use.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyNeutralHarvey is just a wrapper around other models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026Westlaw AIValuesWestlaw AI is less likely to invent cases than ChatGPT or Harvey, which can hallucinate, so firms prefer it for research. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026ChatGPTValues
“I haven’t used Harvey, but I’ve used the Westlaw CoCounsel AI and it is embarrassing how much better ChatGPT is at legal research.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyNeutral
“Harvey runs ChatGPT under the hood (along with Claude), so they are somewhat derivative.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026CriticizesChatGPT and Harvey only cover officially published sources, so firms allow research only with legal publishers' own AI tools that cover the full body of law and commentary. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026ChatGPTMixed
“ChatGPT is solid in terms of putting out coherent and largely accurate answers to research questions, but I've found that I can't trust any of its actual case cites”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“Harvey is no real value add. I don’t know how the hell it’s valued so high when the product can be replicated so easily.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyValues
“I find that the databases these parties (Harvey and Legora alike) created of publicly available legal sources (legislation, guidance and case law to the extent published without paywall) are outperforming the training data or web searches every single time.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyValues
“Harvey can be privileged, and not use the docs you upload and questions you ask about the case to train the model.”
open - r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyValues
“Harvey doesn't do that quite as much and will pick up on a lot more nuance.”
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“It's absolutely insufferable in a general claude-code session, but then I got Opus to annotate a non-disclosure agreement and it uses very clear legal language.”
in “I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer”
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“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.”
in “ChatGPT desktop app versus Claude desktop app versus Harvey” · 20 voices
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- 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 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, 2026HarveyMixed
“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, 2026HarveyValues
“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).”
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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“If you’re not opposed to using AI, I’ve found that uploading my leases to Claude and prompting it with my state of residence can be very helpful.”
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“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.”
in “ChatGPT desktop app versus Claude desktop app versus Harvey” · 20 voices
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- 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, 2026HarveyMixed
“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, 2026HarveyValues
“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).”
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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“I got pretty good use out of it for review of multiple docs at the one time and large DD exercises and generally found it pretty good as a drafting assistant”
in “Is co-pilot good enough for in-house generalist?” · 5 voices
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- r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026Values
“Spellbook has been very helpful for first round edits/issues lists”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026Values
“I've been using it since it came out in beta and it is phenomenal and plugs right into Word.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026
CopilotNeutral“Use Copilot only for things you can verify from your own knowledge”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026CopilotValues
“Kinda/yes - it’s mostly just a wrapper There are rumors they’ve been testing kimi in copilot which outperforms Anthropic and OpenAI on the Harvey bench (legal benchmark)”
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“I've been using it since it came out in beta and it is phenomenal and plugs right into Word.”
in “Is co-pilot good enough for in-house generalist?” · 5 voices
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- r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026Values
“Spellbook has been very helpful for first round edits/issues lists”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026CopilotNeutral
“Use Copilot only for things you can verify from your own knowledge”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026CopilotValues
“Kinda/yes - it’s mostly just a wrapper There are rumors they’ve been testing kimi in copilot which outperforms Anthropic and OpenAI on the Harvey bench (legal benchmark)”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026HarveyValues
“I got pretty good use out of it for review of multiple docs at the one time and large DD exercises and generally found it pretty good as a drafting assistant”
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“Spellbook has been very helpful for first round edits/issues lists”
in “Is co-pilot good enough for in-house generalist?” · 5 voices
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- r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026Values
“I've been using it since it came out in beta and it is phenomenal and plugs right into Word.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026CopilotNeutral
“Use Copilot only for things you can verify from your own knowledge”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026CopilotValues
“Kinda/yes - it’s mostly just a wrapper There are rumors they’ve been testing kimi in copilot which outperforms Anthropic and OpenAI on the Harvey bench (legal benchmark)”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026HarveyValues
“I got pretty good use out of it for review of multiple docs at the one time and large DD exercises and generally found it pretty good as a drafting assistant”
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“You can even use Claude for contract reviews.”
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“You can even use Claude for contract reviews.”
ValuesContract reviewUnverified voice
“Copilot is fine for pulling CPs out of a credit agreement or purchase agreement to make the initial draft checklist, but pushing your team toward a dedicated closing management tool is what actually helps with the manual administrative grind.”
in “Transactional checklist, project management and tracking”
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“Even procurement is running contracts, order forms etc through whatever GenAI just to produce completely unusable risk lists.”
in “Asshat clients using AI” · 5 voices
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- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026ChatGPTMixed
“I say in general what you said chatgpt says is more right than wrong but there is a lot missing and without context is incomplete.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026CriticizesClients should not upload counsel drafts to consumer AI accounts, and client-supplied AI feedback should be handled through engagement terms and hourly billing. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“I keep having to argue with clients about why chatgpts suggestions don't make sense in their context.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026CriticizesThe lawyer bars clients from sending AI-generated research because it invents authority, and verifies every citation through Westlaw at a billable rate. (summary, not a quote)open
“It’s been helpful, but I want to knuckle down over the next month and learn this properly and systematically.”
in “AI workflows for an in house lawyer” · 8 voices
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- r/legaltech · Aug 15, 2026HarveyValues
“I used Harvey every day but it comes with a library of workflows that lawyers can amend for their own use and honestly it’s been game changing.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026ClaudeMixed
“AI can generate consistent work products. You just need to program it and give it the resources to do so.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026ClaudeValues
“Two months of coding with Claude and Gemini produced a program that the Lexis rep was impressed by.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026CopilotNeutral
“FYI you can select the model you use for enterprise copilot. It is set to auto, but you can choose for example GPT Sol 5.6 which is very powerful.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues
“I just picked Claude a while ago and decided to learn that platform and ecosystem thoroughly.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026NeutralIn-house lawyers should map the workflow first, use enterprise-tier tools for real contracts, require structured output and keep a human sign-off on every step. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues
“Copilot is fine but if you can swing Claude or OpenAI and use Claude Code or Codex or their work versions, do that.”
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“Claude has saved me so much time and has done such a good work.”
in “Are you seeing much AI at work?” · 10 voices
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- r/legaltech · Aug 17, 2026GeminiCriticizes
“I’ve found every Gemini model in chat , even 3.1 Pro, to be absolutely shockingly awful with hallucinations.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 15, 2026ValuesLegal AI products are expensive, but cross-checking general models such as Gemini and Claude against each other worked well for the author's bankruptcy analysis. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Aug 9, 2026ValuesHaving trained legal AI models, the author says they have improved from poor to better than the author in unfamiliar practice areas, though they cannot make court appearances. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeMixed
“It's definitely a major time savior thiguh it has its significant costs.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues
“Over the course of an hour or two of iterations back and forth it spit out a very solid letter.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ValuesAI makes big-law M&A work more efficient but juniors outsource their critical thinking, and it is not yet reducing the need for junior lawyers. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues
“I use Claude Fable/Opus on extra effort all day. It’s made me much more efficient.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues
“Everything we’d want a junior/intern to do, LLMs do much better, quicker, and at a fraction of the cost.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ChatGPTMixed
“Using free tier AI apps like ChatGPT risk data being used for training and provide a good baseline for summaries or finding stuff in large documents.”
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“Both clients got billed for every second I spent reviewing AI, and explaining to them why AI was incorrect.”
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- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 1, 2026ClaudeNeutral
“Anthropic has ZDR endpoints for HIPAA compliant purposes and documentation of it.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“They never listen when we tell them they’re junk and that they’d save time and money by just having a real lawyer draft everything for them.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026MixedAn AI-generated estate planning summary was a decent primer for the consult, but its legal suggestions were bad and the client trusted it over the attorney's advice. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026ClaudeCriticizes
“Explaining to people why Claude’s positions are unreasonable has become a part of my day to day job.”
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“Explaining to people why Claude’s positions are unreasonable has become a part of my day to day job.”
in “Tired of arguing with AI via clients” · 5 voices
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- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 1, 2026ClaudeNeutral
“Anthropic has ZDR endpoints for HIPAA compliant purposes and documentation of it.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“They never listen when we tell them they’re junk and that they’d save time and money by just having a real lawyer draft everything for them.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026MixedAn AI-generated estate planning summary was a decent primer for the consult, but its legal suggestions were bad and the client trusted it over the attorney's advice. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“Both clients got billed for every second I spent reviewing AI, and explaining to them why AI was incorrect.”
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“Yes, in about 30-45 minutes, I created an Agent that you could drag and drop 10 different contracts into and have it run a full break-down on it that would take someone days to complete.”
in “AI use cases for in-house legal counsels?” · 5 voices
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- r/legaltech · Jul 16, 2026HarveyValues
“Those are legal specific and bring a useful operating environment”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 16, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude is the tool for contract review, not ChatGPT.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 15, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude is better as a coworker that you can assign tasks to.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 15, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“Even with all these tools available, I'm yet to find an actual use case for GenAI that goes beyond asking ChatGPT to come up with a clause or help with amending a clause.”
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“Claude is the tool for contract review, not ChatGPT.”
in “AI use cases for in-house legal counsels?” · 5 voices
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- r/legaltech · Jul 17, 2026CopilotValues
“Yes, in about 30-45 minutes, I created an Agent that you could drag and drop 10 different contracts into and have it run a full break-down on it that would take someone days to complete.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 16, 2026HarveyValues
“Those are legal specific and bring a useful operating environment”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 15, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude is better as a coworker that you can assign tasks to.”
open - r/legaltech · Jul 15, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes
“Even with all these tools available, I'm yet to find an actual use case for GenAI that goes beyond asking ChatGPT to come up with a clause or help with amending a clause.”
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Comparisons with 5+ voices on both sides for contract review.