What lawyers say about AI for discovery. 97 public voices since 2023, as of : 45 like what they use and 28 do not. Most discussed: ChatGPT (32 voices, 14 like and 11 dislike); CoCounsel (18 voices, 7 like and 7 dislike); Claude (17 voices, 9 like and 3 dislike). The most common complaint is accuracy (21 voices) and the most common thing they value is time saved (33 voices).
Document review and production: what lawyers say about AI in discovery. 97 voices on record since 2023: 45 like what they use, 28 don’t, the rest are mixed or neutral.
r/biglaw · Oct 19, 2026CriticizesLegal SaaS platforms like Harvey and Legora are just wrappers around LLMs, and the author's firm built its own in-house platform and sees their valuations as unjustified. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues“Boomer here, but I think Harvey is incredible.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues“When you know what you are doing and what you want, Harvey is great IMO.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026CoCounselNeutral“CoCounsel allows you to build workflows and combine with other sources too, though.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026HarveyValues“The US caselaw search is better because you can combine it with other sources so you can have it look through a set of litigation documents and run caselaw research to help figure out their significance at the same time.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026ClaudeValues“To be very clear, in my experience having these systems finely tuned to your individual work vs the level of tuning you can get out of harvey/cocounsel/co-pilot can represent 2-3x productivity increases.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey also has a US Caselaw database where whichever model you pick will directly search for cases in the database.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026CriticizesSays lawyers will not use raw coding or chat tools and need a wrapper around the model to make it usable. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey can be used with Astra 6 or Fable, your firm just has to agree to API pricing.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey uses the Chat GPT and Claude models and you can actually pick which model.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026ChatGPTValues“What pisses me off is that our clients ARE using Claude and ChatGPT themselves and we’re stuck using these inferior models.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Alls I know is that I can’t keep track of all the platforms so I stick to my mans Harvey even though the other mans might be better.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“You do realize that Harvey was literally just an interface to access Claude since day 1.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey and Legora are inferior products, by magnitudes, and any firm that exclusively relies on these tools is falling behind in productivity and associate satisfaction.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues“If you are using Fable and you give it enough project data, it can function like your associate on that case who has a mastery of facts and super fast turnaround.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey sucks because it's just an API built on top of open-source AI models, which are way behind the models currently available through openAI or Claude.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizesYounger lawyers who grew up with general AI tools would be disadvantaged by using Harvey, while older lawyers can be forgiven for adopting it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“This is basically a fine tuned version of the Kimi K3 model which they claim is better but is clearly worse”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey does have its own propriety model. And yes, if you select a specific model, only the output is generated by that model, not all of the intervening tasks.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral“There is no “Harvey” model. Harvey just picks one of the models based on your prompt.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyMixed“I like to think of Harvey as an energetic junior, does their best, a fine starting point, but doesn’t produce a product I’d be willing to send a client without a deeeep review”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey's been killing it for me on the transaction side with the rote drafting and title work.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues“I use Harvey daily and think it’s a fantastic product (as long as you use it to supplement, not replace your work product)”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026Westlaw AIValues“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Even when I add docs to a vault and ask for a review table, getting Harvey to actually “read” the docs is like pulling teeth.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude code with a syfert.com MCP (or a courtlistener MCP, or ding duff) is 500% better than Harvey and Legora.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyMixed“It’s usually right but the times it isn’t it’s REALLY wrong.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I also do not think I’m getting real Opus 5 when I select it in Harvey. And it’s hella slow.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey profits by arbitrating token costs, so they use the cheapest models they think can get away with for the bulk of response.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“They came out years later than Harvey, when firms already adopted Harvey, but yeah, firms should abandon Harveyw”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“My firm has Harvey and CoCounsel, and I just use CC bc it has access to Westlaw.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It routinely gives me genuinely “lazy” answers that fail to address what are obviously critical aspects of the issue, in a way that is not true of Fable or Astra”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The only reason firms choose Harvey is it doesn’t use our data to train its AI due to confidentiality, or else they are trash”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“All other tasks, such as the actual research, review, etc, are handled by whatever model Harvey wants, including their own shitty “proprietary” models.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 24, 2026ValuesPraises Everlaw's AI features and its Claude and ChatGPT connectors, but questions why Deep Dive costs extra when the connectors are included. (summary, not a quote)open
“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.”
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, 2026LegoraCriticizes“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, 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, 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
r/LawFirm · Sep 13, 2026ClaudeValues“After about 3 evenings, I’ve built a demo system that my partners think is better than Clio.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 9, 2026ClioMixed“Clio is decent for now, but in my experience, its AI features are pure trash.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ClioMixed“Overall it’s not worth the cost but is adequate for research if you don’t have another platform.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ClaudeValues“We are using a great case management system that is targeted for PI lawyers. It is a built out wrapper based on Claude.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ClioCriticizes“It's expensive and barely has any features on top of Hubspot.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ClioMixed“Clio's AI is also subpar. Clio has a very good core product, Clio Manage.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 3, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Running Claude on your desktop does not mean the data is private.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 2, 2026ClaudeValues“You can build these all inside of Claude Code and connect to your email, then have it segment leads from there so you know the status of each person before you talk to them.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“It’s fking wild man! What it can do is mind blowing.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“This is where Eve/EvenUp-class tools and a well-set Claude Project both earn their keep.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“Before committing to Eve I'd set up a Claude project per document type and put your own exemplars and instructions in it.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“Yes! You can tell it to do anything you can think of, just treat it like a legal assistant in human language.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Claude uploads your files online to Anthropic servers. Claude does not run locally so everything goes online, unlike a local LLM that you can run offline.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeNeutral“We strictly use Claude Cowork in local folders, not the cloud. The files/work never leave the computer.”open
r/LawFirm · Aug 31, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“They should be because consumer Claude even a paid subscription was founded to not have client attorney privileges. Once it goes in it's fair game.”open
r/LawFirm · Aug 31, 2026ClaudeValues“I recommend watching some intro YouTube videos on whatever you decide to use. We use Claude and love it (PI firm).”open
“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.”
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, 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, 2026ClaudeMixed“It is more respectful of PDFs than of word documents, and rarely edits documents you feed it as context -- but it can do so.”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.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 4, 2026ValuesAfter about five days with the smaller tool Lucio, this lawyer is pleasantly surprised but says it is too early to judge it against Harvey or Legora. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues“Worth pricing out what building that internally with Claude would actually take before assuming the subscription is the expensive option.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026ValuesA large firm that previously used Harvey found Filevine's LOIS extremely impressive and more useful than Harvey. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Model selection on Harvey doesn’t do what you think it does. It only produces the final output and is not involved in the actual analysis.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 16, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I do not think Harvey or Legora are some how perfect. I think it’s pretty clear they aren’t and have lots of work to do to keep their current users.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 16, 2026HarveyCriticizes“If you think Harvey optimizes every part of the data pipeline, every edge case, with rivals, pulls the right context, and whatever else you were going to say, you've drunk some serious kool-aid.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 15, 2026HarveyValues“They’re paying because raw model capability is not the same thing as a controlled, verifiable legal operating environment.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 15, 2026ClaudeValues“I’m saying that once you get to know how to use Claude or GPT, they are better and more tailored overall solutions for most practice groups.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026LegoraValues“I am very satisfied Legora user. It really helps me drafting and (proof)reading documents.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026LegoraValues“Legora you can upload 300+ docs at once. Have been playing around with it recently and it’s incredible.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026LegoraValues“Used Legora and it completely changed the way my tasks are done, how projects are organized, how documents are stored.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey is a wrapper of a model. It also does a whole bunch of other stuff.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026HarveyCriticizes“You wrote a lot but you still didn't point out a single thing that actually gives Harvey value over Claude, ChatGPT, etc.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026HarveyValues“With Harvey/Legora, you can use any model and switch back and forth without any disruption to the end-user experience.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“We actually tried Harvey early last year but its usefulness didn’t justify the cost back then.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026CoCounselValues“It's a little clunkier on the UX than Harvey but the full integration with Westlaw and the output accuracy is way better”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyMixed“Granted, IMO Harvey and Legora are overpriced.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyValues“We trialed Harvey, which I loved. When you know how to give it proper directions, it's an incredibly useful tool.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“There is absolutely no reason at all to think Harvey would be more accurate than Claude. It is a LOT more expensive however.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey and Legora are both great.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Unfortunately I was in a similar boat and my team ended up going with Harvey because they wanted something turnkey and didn’t have the confidence to use Claude”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“We tested Claude with a small technology team made up of lawyers, secretaries, and various people from across the business, and it went down really well.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey is its own multi-model/orchestration system: it can split tasks, select models and synthesise outputs using its own harness and it accesses models through different API/cloud routes.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“The analysis and draft documents they output is much better than the older models you’d access through Harvey and Legora.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Neither Microsoft, nor Harvey/Legora can control Fable 5’s data collection other than preventing use of it.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026CriticizesTheir firm's AI committee finds CoCounsel, Legora and Harvey too expensive for what they offer and has started building its own discovery-only drafting tool that connects to the firm's document management system. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude Enterprise is not the same as Clude use via API ( how Harvey deliver Claude). The API will have minimised limits.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The truth is the current state of legaltech is far more about hype than substance, so think about what your actual goal is.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026NeutralAdvises comparing Claude costs against Harvey or Legora and factoring in training, security and compliance, since none is ready out of the box and changing user behavior is hardest. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026NeutralSays how a firm organizes its data matters most, and that wrapper tools suit traditional firms without a tech department but give no competitive edge. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“If you spend the time to figure out how to use it, Claude is far more powerful.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyMixed“On balance I prefer Harvey because of the interface and doesn’t crash as much as Legora, but there’s not much in it, especially as I set the model to Claude Opus 5 or GPT5.6 Sol every time I use it.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyValues“All of that makes it easier for my attorneys to just pick up an use.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey and Legora have integrations to iManage Cloud for example, whereas Claude would use iManage MCP Server as Copilot does.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions are great ! But tbh half of the white collar professionals I know are reluctant to go deeper than chat interface so they are the ICP of Harvey/Legora.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Main issue with Claude enterprise is the number of documents you can handle at one time. The context window is limited.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyValues“People hate on Harvey/Legora but they can and do provide lots of value outside the FOMO marketing aspect if they are used correctly.”open
“She explained that the firm has one of the last flat fee arrangements Legora is signing, and that next year we are being rolled into a token usage model - the firm will then reassess if it makes economical sense. I can tell you, it will not.”
in “Help me understand the economics of these new AI tools” · 4 voices
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026ValuesOctus performs well on verifiable, compliant output in niche restructuring work, and embedding such niche models in mainstream LLMs would improve legal AI use. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026HarveyValues“Where AI shines is in repeatable template work that is reviewed by an attorney to ensure that it is accurate before it is delivered to a client.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“AI wrappers like Harvey are incentivized to push your work to a shittier model unless you specify which model you want to use (which is still suss) cause the token costs are far less.”open
“I was just let go because the new attorney they hired uses ChatGPT for everything (and let me tell you its discovery questions are a doozy) and they no longer need me.”
r/paralegal · Aug 7, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“He says that ChatGPT has hallucinated cases.”open
r/paralegal · Aug 6, 2026NeutralSays the ruling on AI and privilege applies only to public AI systems like ChatGPT, not to private compliant systems. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Aug 6, 2026MixedSays free or low-tier AI tools risk breaching client confidentiality, while enterprise legal-focused platforms like Vincent protect it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 24, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Zero Data Retention (ZDR) is Enterprise-only, not available on Team.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“If you're using Fable, your data is being retained for 30 days for abuse monitoring.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026ClaudeNeutralShares a session closeout log template used with Claude to record files accessed, deletion of temporary files and confirmation that no external tools were used on privileged matters. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Yeah, we require turning Claude memory off to prevent cross-matter contamination.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 13, 2026ClaudeValues“We are using Claude Team and very happy with it.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 13, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Done start your legal research with Claude. You'll get hallucinations and if even one ends up in the brief you file then you're in hot water.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 13, 2026ClaudeMixed“I would agree with sentiments, teams is a step up but Enterprise is where it’s proper enterprise grade.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Team and Enterprise run under Anthropic's Commercial Terms, no training by default.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026PerplexityNeutral“Perplexity Enterprise Pro is $40 a seat, includes tokens, and is enterprise level with ZDR, audit trail, etc.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026CoCounselMixed“The first version was sub par to be perfectly honest but early feedback of their new version is very positive.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude Team doesn't train on your data, but client info is still being transmitted to Anthropic's servers, you're relying on their security, not your own.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026CoCounselValues“Just get CoCounsel. You’re over thinking trying to mix and match to save a few bucks.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeMixed“Bottom line: the Team plan is a big step up from the wild-west alternative, but I'd treat the ZDR/Enterprise terms as the actual privilege boundary, not the Team UI setting.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“From the compliance side, it's a headache. It was too much of a footgun with a ZDR + new model = non-compliant.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026CoCounselNeutral“We are using Eve and CoCounsel with Westlaw to avoid that right now while I build out some automation with Claude but my goal is to do essentially what you're doing and tie Claude to CoCounsel to be able to do everything in one place.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“When you crank it up to opus level extra it actually does this very well.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026PerplexityValues“I would use Perplexity Enterprise Pro- only $40 a seat and get the benefits of Claude Opus 8 and ChatGPT with a ZDR, audit trail, etc.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Ultimately, they are warning that if you use any other tier (at this moment) that doesn't include ZDR or is a tenant solution that includes such, then your confidential information can be read by their employees in that 30-day hold.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Anthropic states that you don't have confidentiality unless you use ZDR or a tenant solution that provides for confidentiality.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“It shines in analyzing long AIA construction docs and summarizing them or editing them within co-work.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeMixed“I allow claude access to my emails for admin support and select documents I feed it to prepare stuff I want it to prepare, then I finish up the work myself since its not able to prepare final work product to my liking anyway.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Claude Teams provides no facility for you to do an ediscovery of your firm’s usage of Claude.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“After test driving Harvey, the Lexus AI product, Chat, and Claude, we ended up going with a Claude team plan and keeping our Westlaw classic subscription (pretty cheap for our small law firm).”open
r/legaltech · Jul 24, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Zero Data Retention (ZDR) is Enterprise-only, not available on Team.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“If you're using Fable, your data is being retained for 30 days for abuse monitoring.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026ClaudeNeutralShares a session closeout log template used with Claude to record files accessed, deletion of temporary files and confirmation that no external tools were used on privileged matters. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Yeah, we require turning Claude memory off to prevent cross-matter contamination.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 13, 2026ClaudeValues“We are using Claude Team and very happy with it.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 13, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Done start your legal research with Claude. You'll get hallucinations and if even one ends up in the brief you file then you're in hot water.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 13, 2026ClaudeMixed“I would agree with sentiments, teams is a step up but Enterprise is where it’s proper enterprise grade.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Team and Enterprise run under Anthropic's Commercial Terms, no training by default.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026PerplexityNeutral“Perplexity Enterprise Pro is $40 a seat, includes tokens, and is enterprise level with ZDR, audit trail, etc.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026CoCounselMixed“The first version was sub par to be perfectly honest but early feedback of their new version is very positive.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude Team doesn't train on your data, but client info is still being transmitted to Anthropic's servers, you're relying on their security, not your own.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026CoCounselValues“Just get CoCounsel. You’re over thinking trying to mix and match to save a few bucks.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeMixed“Bottom line: the Team plan is a big step up from the wild-west alternative, but I'd treat the ZDR/Enterprise terms as the actual privilege boundary, not the Team UI setting.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“From the compliance side, it's a headache. It was too much of a footgun with a ZDR + new model = non-compliant.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026CoCounselNeutral“We are using Eve and CoCounsel with Westlaw to avoid that right now while I build out some automation with Claude but my goal is to do essentially what you're doing and tie Claude to CoCounsel to be able to do everything in one place.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“When you crank it up to opus level extra it actually does this very well.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026PerplexityValues“I would use Perplexity Enterprise Pro- only $40 a seat and get the benefits of Claude Opus 8 and ChatGPT with a ZDR, audit trail, etc.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Ultimately, they are warning that if you use any other tier (at this moment) that doesn't include ZDR or is a tenant solution that includes such, then your confidential information can be read by their employees in that 30-day hold.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Anthropic states that you don't have confidentiality unless you use ZDR or a tenant solution that provides for confidentiality.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“It shines in analyzing long AIA construction docs and summarizing them or editing them within co-work.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeMixed“I allow claude access to my emails for admin support and select documents I feed it to prepare stuff I want it to prepare, then I finish up the work myself since its not able to prepare final work product to my liking anyway.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeNeutral“If you have to do any sort of discovery or production of prompts and/or responses in Claude, Team won’t allow you to do so.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“After test driving Harvey, the Lexus AI product, Chat, and Claude, we ended up going with a Claude team plan and keeping our Westlaw classic subscription (pretty cheap for our small law firm).”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“I work in big tech and not a lawyer from a technical point of view is much safer to be using Anthropic directly.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 9, 2026ClaudeValues“Cloud and third party providers don’t remove privilege.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 8, 2026HarveyValues“You absolutely pay a premium for that, but sometimes premiums are worth it for the holistic benefit to a large team.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 7, 2026ClaudeNeutralOur firm turned on US-only inference in its enterprise Anthropic account to address data location concerns, though the specific data center is unknown. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 7, 2026MixedAfter comparing the documents, direct commercial terms from model providers match legal AI platforms on confidentiality, and a wrapper adds another processor, breach risk and retention regime, so calling direct use reckless reflects outdated 2023 impressions. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026ClaudeValues“Anthropic’s abuse monitoring tools are automated, non-human tools looking for content around CSAM, nuclear, bio, cyber or viral weapons and actually dangerous stuff, not, Did Timmy in accounting swear at Claude while working through an Excel error.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026ClaudeValues“Commercial terms that prohibit training and carry confidentiality obligations sit on the other side of the exact reasoning the court used, and the firm commentaries on the decision draw that same distinction.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Anthropic itself warns against uploading sensitive material without a ZR agreement.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Right now it looks like they’re confidential provisions don’t really add much if anything.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey can access data for service and support, and its no-human-review commitment carves out cloud storage subprocessors.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is not it, there are actual legal ai companies out there that are not all marketing.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026HarveyMixed“The positive here is that post-training and moving deeper into infra removes subprocessor dependencies and could actually provide better data and confidentiality control over the long run.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026ClaudeMixed“Teams account the DPA at least says that anyone doing to review is bound by the same confidentiality provisions but I still have a slight level of discomfort.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey and the commercial grade Claude and ChatGPT align closely on these specs.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey used to tout that it trained itself on real data from its clients and only swapped when it became clear that was an ethical breach, not a flex.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey cannot do ZDR this because all of its added functionality depends on storing your data long term.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026ValuesMain AI providers' terms, even on consumer plans with training opted out, are better on confidentiality than most case management systems, and wrappers are only slightly better. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 6, 2026ClaudeValues“The confidentiality clause and DPA I read limit use to providing the service, with need-to-know access only.”open
r/legaltech · May 30, 2026CoCounselCriticizesDisappointed by CoCounsel's vague discovery responses; GC.ai gave much better quality; Claude ZDR option too pricey. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · May 25, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“There is a discernible gap between where AI proponents think their models are versus where they are from a practitioner level.”open
r/legaltech · May 25, 2026ClaudeValues“The real question is why AI is still not widely used even for basic tasks. Btw, Claude Code is already an agent itself and should be capable of handling agentic tasks at a decent level.”open
r/legaltech · May 22, 2026CriticizesLitigation AI tools are poor because vendors misunderstand litigation, big legal publishers use cheaper and weaker models, and many products are no better than using Claude directly. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · May 21, 2026Mixed“The only useful program I found was Paxton.ai.”open
r/LawFirm · May 15, 2026ClaudeValues“Only the mid and small firms are actually using AI for the stuff, since they have to time implement and test everything, if you're looking into implementing out of the hype, I'll just suggest to use claude for summaries and helping draft through templates nothing else.”open
r/LawFirm · May 14, 2026ClaudeValues“I used Claude to build out my website and I’m super happy with the result.”open
r/LawFirm · May 14, 2026ClaudeValues“Pretty much zero risk of hallucinations if you use these tools responsibly.”open
r/LawFirm · May 14, 2026ClaudeValues“With Claude and/or Gemini it does the work of the developer for me and you ask it to provide a step by step guide to implement it and ask it questions if you get stuck along the way.”open
r/LawFirm · May 14, 2026ClaudeValues“If you use Google’s ecosystem (workspace), you can use Claude to help build out a ton of automations within the ecosystem.”open
r/biglaw · May 16, 2026HarveyValues“It’s actually a pretty good deal comparing to Legora which has a max limit at least for now.”open
r/biglaw · May 15, 2026HarveyNeutralThe author describes heavy use of Harvey at a law firm, running several models on the same prompt for verification, and estimates monthly usage costs at about 15k. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · May 14, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I looked into the "closed AI" thing and that's so easy to setup and common now that it's not really a gamechanger.”open
r/biglaw · May 14, 2026HarveyValues“It can be super helpful in IP litigation, so for me I'd say it's well worth a billable hour per month if that's what the firm pays.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 8, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Show them court opinions sanctioning lawyers who used chatgpt and it cited to fictitious cases- its often wrong on the law!”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 7, 2026NeutralA self-represented person has friends compare several AI answers and then checks them in LexisNexis at the library. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · May 7, 2026ChatGPTValues“I’ve saved what I would guess to be 5 hours this week using ChatGPT enterprise.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 7, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I was just thinking about how I need to do this because the input of the information into Claude or other AI is discoverable information.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 7, 2026CopilotCriticizes“I recently asked Copilot to complete a March madness bracket for me, and it came back with incredible nonsense (teams winning games they weren’t in, 12 teams in the sweet 16, and teams with completely hallucinated names).”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 7, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Those ChatGPT outputs, and more importantly the inputs are discoverable so I hope you those are litigation matters.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ValuesPrefers NotebookLM over Claude for case law and facts because sentence-level citations link to and highlight the exact source, making verification easy. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeValues“It can create PowerPoints, excel spreadsheets, word docs, etc”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ValuesBuilt a private-server setup of open-source models with a closed set of reference materials that produces good drafts without hallucinations and seems more effective than consumer-tier ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeValues“I'm a solo and $2400 buys a TON of paralegal, administrative, and first/second year associate help through Claude.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeMixed“Claude handles drafting actual files a bit better but is too rate limited even with pro.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ChatGPTValues“I've noticed that Gemini is really bad at this task, but ChatGPT does okay.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ChatGPTValues“It’s little things like that, that push me to using ChatGPT more often.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026MixedFound general chatbots useful for first drafts of demand letters and retainers but too error-prone at summarizing cases and statutes for substantive legal work, with Gemini the most reliable and a firm-trained internal AI better than Westlaw and Lexis AI. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeValues“In my experience Claude is much better. Gemini is better than ChatGPT too but Claude is the best, at least at the moment.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ChatGPTValues“ChatGPT has exceptional instruction following and attention to detail.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeMixed“Definitely broad at the outset. But spending time on prompting and narrowing is possible, and it will eventually generate passable results.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed“I can say Protege is a nice starting point in general memo work, but it tends to stay very broad and has a hard time coloring in the lines even if you try narrowing it down, but the new vault feature helps a bit.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude cowork is insanely good for transactional law and I think it will literally decimate billable hours available to us lawyers.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026CopilotValues“For legal work, I think of Copilot like the world's fastest and most tireless law clerk. A task that would take me all day takes it 30 seconds.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ChatGPTMixed“ChatGPT has been super helpful throughout to keep track of all of those documents and helps when drafting emails and going over final settlement negotiations. However, I think as of late it has gotten worse hallucinating statutes and case law.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude and Gemini are both vastly superior to Copilot and ChatGPT.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeValues“I have been loving Claude. I’m going to assume you have a version of Claude enterprise where there aren’t issues as to what sensitive information goes in.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeValues“I've also had the model role play as opposing counsel trying to discredit my arguments/motion and then I use that to make improvements.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeValues“I have tinkered around with the two of them, and solely in an experimental capacity for unbilled time on a weekend and with sufficient prompting, created a MOL my partner described as outstanding that was drafted almost entirely by generative AI.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 29, 2026ClaudeValues“I've been Very pleased with how well its agents work”open
“There have been cases where the court ruled attorney client privilege (or atty work product privilege) was waived by putting client confidential-legal product in an OpenAI system.”
in “Is feeding client docs into Claude a violation” · 25 voices
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeNeutral“If you pay enough, you can get a HIPAA BAA with Claude.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026CriticizesSays enterprise legal AI tools such as Harvey, Legora and enterprise ChatGPT can protect confidentiality, but off-the-shelf Claude almost certainly puts confidential client information at risk. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeValues“I can't speak to the legal / ethics rules surrounding this. But as a practical matter, the risk is extremely low.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude I think has it even for free accounts, but you have to enable that in settings.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I'd tell your employee that you're concerned it breaches client confidentiality (which is probably does, based on the ToS of Claude).”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeNeutral“I have the paid version of Claude for non-sensitive work, but I use the enterprise version of Notion to have AI handle stuff related to my patients and the law firms with whom I negotiate liens.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeNeutralSuggests a firm can get an enterprise-tier Claude team subscription at roughly $30 per user per month instead of using personal accounts. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“If it were my law firm and they used Claude or some of the other popular engines, in a non-100% on-premesis manner with no escape to the internet, I would consider it a breach, regardless of what a non-techincal person said.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“I typically use co-counsel, but I think its output is pretty bad and would love to use another program.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeMixed“From what I understand, Claude doesn’t train its model / learn from what you give it to analyze, which is key.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizesSays Claude is fine through a closed enterprise legal platform, but consumer Claude Pro is risky for client information, so redact it or use legal-specific AI. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeValues“I also use Claude with these specific constraints applied and feel zero anxiety about it.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeValues“I’m a solo using Claude Team, a commercial tier with tighter TOS contractually covenants by Anthropic to not view your data.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“You're not even supposed to put confidential information into Westlaw's Co-Counsel, which I imagine is much more secure.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026CriticizesSays uploading client documents into an open AI model is highly problematic, and that even the firm's enterprise Copilot has its own issues. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026GeminiValues“You can pay for HIPAA compliant AI. We have Gemini pro at my firm for this purpose.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeNeutral“I don't have an enterprise application, and have way too damn long anonymizing a long diligence report I only have in PDF so I use Claude Cowork.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizesAnything entered into Claude or any SaaS platform should not be treated as confidential, and privilege would be hard to protect after a breach. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026CriticizesDoes not recommend AI for legal research because it has no case database, but believes using it does not break privilege under current law. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeValues“This is how many firms are automating tasks, including record review.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026NeutralNotes that free accounts may train on user input, while paid OpenAI and Anthropic plans let users opt out of training. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026CriticizesSays sharing privileged information with a non-secure AI service risks discovery, and recommends an enterprise or closed deployment such as Copilot. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeNeutral“I asked Claude about this recently and it said not to feed it confidential docs as anything shared with it is potentially viewable by staff and therefore nullifies ac privilege”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Westlaw AI was built to keep confidentiality. I cant say the same for the commercial LLMs.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 30, 2026ValuesConfidentiality worries about AI training are overblown because training can be turned off and AI is not fundamentally different from a search engine. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 30, 2026NeutralAn attorney's use of AI should be privileged like using Westlaw or Google, and the one ruling against privilege involved a client using AI alone. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Mar 28, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“Our firm uses LEXIS AI….it absolutely sucks at medical chronologies, summaries, or any large summarization.”open
r/paralegal · Mar 27, 2026ChatGPTValues“This has opened up my ability to communicate well with my Spanish speaking clients in a way that Google Translate can’t even compete with.”open
r/paralegal · Mar 25, 2026MixedThe author says generative AI like ChatGPT must be used carefully and not as a main resource, while AI built into legal software is useful for productivity and does not replace staff. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Mar 24, 2026ClaudeValues“Took him about 3 hours to set it up, but that was probably 4 or 5 days worth of work saved.”open
r/paralegal · Mar 24, 2026CopilotValues“We have copilot for office 365 and it can be helpful for brainstorming ideas and organizing thoughts - but it’s just a tool like everything else.”open
r/paralegal · Mar 24, 2026Westlaw AIValues“My usage is limited because I have transitioned to more of an analytics role, but the majority of my department loves it.”open
r/paralegal · Mar 24, 2026Westlaw AIValues“The Westlaw AI is pretty great. We've fed it documents and it's done all sorts of briefs and summaries that were pretty damn accurate.”open
r/paralegal · Mar 24, 2026ChatGPTValues“ChatGPT narrowed it down & I did the extra work to confirm it.”open
r/paralegal · Mar 23, 2026HarveyMixed“Harvey is good, but it sometimes goes off and does stuff I don’t want t”open
r/legaltech · Feb 25, 2026CoCounselMixed“It is ok at best. The Westlaw AI research component is good.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 25, 2026ChatGPTMixed“Tools like ChatGPT work well up to maybe 200 pages, after that the context gets too long for the AI to keep track of it all and it can miss details.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 25, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“Sure, so a couple things I saw during Supio demo that Co-Counsel cannot do: Answer discovery requests, Put together exhibits and bates stamp them, medical summaries seemed to be more comprehensive/polished in Supio, etc.”open
“Sure, so a couple things I saw during Supio demo that Co-Counsel cannot do: Answer discovery requests, Put together exhibits and bates stamp them, medical summaries seemed to be more comprehensive/polished in Supio, etc.”
r/legaltech · Feb 26, 2026CoCounselMixed“CoCounsel can answer discovery requests, well actually.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 25, 2026CoCounselMixed“It is ok at best. The Westlaw AI research component is good.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 25, 2026ChatGPTMixed“Tools like ChatGPT work well up to maybe 200 pages, after that the context gets too long for the AI to keep track of it all and it can miss details.”open
“The same way Harvey does: by building out an orchestration layer to batch up processing of documents and including document chunking for single documents that are too large to fit a single context window.”
r/legaltech · Feb 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Everything you listed in your other post can easily be done in chatgpt with a basic prompt. You've simply confirmed harvey is a chatgpt wrapper in greater detail.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“They need to spend more time making a better product instead of sales/marketing bs.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 15, 2026HarveyValues“It makes me more efficient and improves my performance when it comes to advising clients better than ChatGPT ofc.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 11, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It's crazy people are still consider paying money on Harvey, when you can literally vibe code a better solution in a weekend.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 9, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey and Legora are really selling infrastructure and orchestration layers (which is technically a "wrapper" but has a lot more value than just on-selling a chat bot UI).”open
r/legaltech · Feb 7, 2026HarveyValues“I, and most of my colleagues, think it’s a very valuable tool.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 7, 2026HarveyValues“It is not simply a ChatGPT wrapper. It does a number of things that ChatGPT does not do.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 7, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is simply a ChatGPT wrapper built by non lawyers (ie no idea of what it's like to practice as a top performing lawyer).”open
r/legaltech · Feb 7, 2026HarveyValues“It’s also not clear how ChatGPT or Claude can be better when Harvey utilizes both of those models among others”open
r/legaltech · Feb 6, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It's just really difficult to justify Harvey's exorbitant cost when the majority of the things we need are free with our existing content storage service.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Everything you listed in your other post can easily be done in chatgpt with a basic prompt. You've simply confirmed harvey is a chatgpt wrapper in greater detail.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“They need to spend more time making a better product instead of sales/marketing bs.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 15, 2026HarveyValues“It makes me more efficient and improves my performance when it comes to advising clients better than ChatGPT ofc.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 11, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It's crazy people are still consider paying money on Harvey, when you can literally vibe code a better solution in a weekend.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 9, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey and Legora are really selling infrastructure and orchestration layers (which is technically a "wrapper" but has a lot more value than just on-selling a chat bot UI).”open
r/legaltech · Feb 8, 2026HarveyNeutral“The same way Harvey does: by building out an orchestration layer to batch up processing of documents and including document chunking for single documents that are too large to fit a single context window.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 7, 2026HarveyValues“I, and most of my colleagues, think it’s a very valuable tool.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 7, 2026HarveyValues“It is not simply a ChatGPT wrapper. It does a number of things that ChatGPT does not do.”open
r/legaltech · Feb 7, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is simply a ChatGPT wrapper built by non lawyers (ie no idea of what it's like to practice as a top performing lawyer).”open
r/legaltech · Feb 6, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It's just really difficult to justify Harvey's exorbitant cost when the majority of the things we need are free with our existing content storage service.”open
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