What lawyers say about AI, said by in-house. 22 public voices since 2023, as of : 14 like what they use and 2 do not. Most discussed: ChatGPT (11 voices, 10 like and 0 dislike); Copilot (3 voices, 1 like and 0 dislike); Harvey (3 voices, 0 like and 1 dislike). The most common complaint is hallucination (3 voices) and the most common thing they value is time saved (7 voices).
Lawyers inside companies, placed here only when they say so in their own words. 22 voices on record since 2023: 14 like what they use, 2 don’t, the rest are mixed or neutral.
How a voice lands here: it was posted in a community for that seat (r/biglaw, r/LawFirm, r/paralegal) or the author says it in their own words (“I work in-house”, “our small firm”). Everything else is “not stated” and stays out of this page.
“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
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.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Yes, firms can see your chats and everything else, at least for a specific retention period.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“100% yes (source: me. I have this access to my firms Harvey usage). You can see everything.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey is specifically built to allow admins to see full usage, exact prompts, prompt quality, which tool you are prompting.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“During my firm’s trial of Harvey, they did identify which attorneys had the highest number of inquires.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Yes, Harvey administrators (within your firm, not from Harvey) can see all prompts and documents for all users.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey isn’t able to recover my actual work after a week or if it does a dumb refresh mid-thread sometimes…”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It hallucinated a board action with citation to the wrong DGCL section.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Agree. But also practically speaking, I don’t actually think it’s very easy for IT to access AI chat logs.”open
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.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 2, 2026ClaudeMixed“When Claude's accuracy is bad on tagging work it's almost never the reading, it's that the model fills gaps by guessing instead of admitting it came up empty.”open
r/legaltech · Jun 30, 2026ClaudeValues“Being mindful of confidentiality, using something like Claude code even in the Claude desktop app can improve work a lot.”open
r/legaltech · Jun 30, 2026ClaudeNeutral“If the ask is to review the tagging that has been done, that seems like something that should be a human task rather than trying to delegate it to an AI.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 14, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I used chatgpt to research for the first time ever last week, and of course I found and reviewed the cases. It completely hallucinated one.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I find ChatGPT and Claude are especially sycophantic to clients.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Unfortunately, turning to AI tends to either give people really scary answers or ones that are far too reassuring.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“These briefs almost always cite another state's law, civil law, or entirely made up law.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“ChatGPT destroys attorney-client privilege.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026GeminiValues“They are contractually obligated not to if you have the appropriate paid plan.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026CoCounselValues“Re-drafting the PSA from a LoI would've taken me 2 hours easy, now I can have the AI do that part and just review the work it did, and it takes 45 minutes to an hour to review the agreement and correct the AI.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ClaudeValues“I do find for writing custom terms, addenda, etc. that Claude does a really good job of getting me 80-95% of the way there and off a blank page.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Theoretically, it’s not the use of the tool that waived privilege, it was that the information was put into the pool of publicly available information used to train/generate answers for other users.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“As an attorney, I would never use chat gpt or any other public AI for work product because it calls into question my ethical conduct with client information, be it conversations or their medical records.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ChatGPTMixedThe author says the free version risks privilege, though Pro or enterprise versions do not share or train on data. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ClaudeCriticizesSays Anthropic overhypes legal capability and that its legal plugin is just a prompt, misleading people into thinking it works. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 10, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“ChatGPT destroys attorney-client privilege. You must tell your clients they are forbidden from using it with your communications or documents.”open
r/biglaw · Apr 5, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“I wish I had something better but CoCounsel is garbage”open
r/biglaw · Mar 31, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“Had a rep demo co-counsel 2.0 today and it does nothing that 365 Copilot for enterprise (which is fully sandboxed) doesn't do.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 11, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“None of these AI products seem to be capable of producing accurate work product even when you very explicitly say what to include/not include.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 11, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“They also entered onto DPA and downstream BAA with us and worked closely with our IT team on configuration.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 11, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“Yeah, I stopped using coCounsel because of how slow it is.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 10, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“The product is terrible, the model it calls on is watered down, and the response times are extremely slow.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 10, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“We were advertised and promised a product that can summarize medical records and deposition transcripts at the very least.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 10, 2026CoCounselValues“For directly legal things, I’ve found it to be good and does not hallucinate cases like chatGPT.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 10, 2026ChatGPTValues“Enterprise models of ChatGPT can be HIPAA compliant.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 10, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“My impression of CoCounsel is that it’s slow and the model it trains on is not that robust.”open
r/biglaw · Apr 5, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“I wish I had something better but CoCounsel is garbage”open
r/biglaw · Mar 31, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“Had a rep demo co-counsel 2.0 today and it does nothing that 365 Copilot for enterprise (which is fully sandboxed) doesn't do.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 11, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“None of these AI products seem to be capable of producing accurate work product even when you very explicitly say what to include/not include.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 11, 2026HarveyMixed“Been having really great success with Harvey AI. Highly recommend.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 11, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“They also entered onto DPA and downstream BAA with us and worked closely with our IT team on configuration.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 11, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“Yeah, I stopped using coCounsel because of how slow it is.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 10, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“The product is terrible, the model it calls on is watered down, and the response times are extremely slow.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 10, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“We were advertised and promised a product that can summarize medical records and deposition transcripts at the very least.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 10, 2026CoCounselValues“For directly legal things, I’ve found it to be good and does not hallucinate cases like chatGPT.”open
r/biglaw · Feb 10, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“My impression of CoCounsel is that it’s slow and the model it trains on is not that robust.”open
r/Lawyertalk
“Spellbook - $350 for the word addon. Seems like the best choice so far.”
in “Looking for best AI tool for contract review (tested some)” · 12 voices
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 10, 2026MixedThe author says contract-review tools should be judged on whether they use your own playbook and trace flags to the exact clause, since unsupported risk flags can lead to sanctions; they disclose working on a competing product. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · May 25, 2026Mixed“They're excellent at suggesting language and flagging common issues against a playbook.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 21, 2026Values“I think for pure affordability , spellbook I felt good value for money.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 2, 2026ValuesThe author found the free ClauseCheck tool a useful first pass that flags unusual clauses in plain language and caught terms they would have missed, though it may not replace Spellbook for a full workflow. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 21, 2026Values“Ivo said they wouldn't let price be the issue, so I assume they will try to compete woth spellbook, but if not, then it's definitely going to be spellbook.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Mar 21, 2026ValuesThe author thinks Spellbook is the right choice at an in-house budget because its Word add-in fits the workflow, and found Ivo's extra price unjustified. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Feb 25, 2026ValuesThe author calls Spellbook strong for in-Word review at its price and recommends Workday Contract Intelligence for tracking obligations across a growing volume of contracts. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Feb 19, 2026ValuesThe author says Harvey and Spellbook flag contract risks reasonably well, and that docmods, which adds tracked-change redlines and comments in Word, has saved their team a lot of time. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Feb 11, 2026CriticizesThe author says language models give inconsistent and often confidently wrong results, and that deterministic playbook tools are better for contract review than an LLM. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Feb 11, 2026CriticizesThe author dismisses contract-review apps built on ChatGPT or Gemini as low-quality products whose mistakes lawyers will be paid to fix. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Feb 10, 2026ValuesThe author recommends playbook-based reviewers such as LegalOn and says AI Lawyer gives a useful first-pass issues list that still needs a human redline. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2025ChatGPTValues“It does a great job at providing me with a starting point.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 7, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“I also pay $20 for chatgpt and it hallucinated summing columns, as well as pulling climate data for cities”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 6, 2025ChatGPTMixed“If you are trying to solve a problem solely by asking chatgpt without actually looking at the laws, then it will take you longer than if you had done it by yourself”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 6, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Until recently, using the “share” feature (not necessarily just for posting to social media, as I understand it, but also to share with colleagues) would make the information publicly available and would appear in Google searches.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesThe author uses ChatGPT to write memos from their own research and outline and to simplify language for clients, reviews output carefully, and finds it mostly accurate and time-saving. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It helps me because I prefer to edit rather than write.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It's good enough that I would hand it to a paralegal or new attorney and tell them to follow it verbatim.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It’s really good at finding them and saves me a bunch of time.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It’s not perfect, but it can definitely save time and make your day-to-day more efficient.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizesThe author does not use ChatGPT in practice and recovered fees after having to respond to opposing counsel's brief containing hallucinated content from it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“Saves hours every week.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Westlaw AIMixed“It’s not bad for getting the basics of an unfamiliar area of law, but it’s not going to give you a good or even helpful answer to anything nuanced.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTMixed“It does make up stuff a lot though.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“What it spits back at me is amazingly insightful.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesThe author finds ChatGPT good for outlining long client emails and turning notes into an agreement, faster than a first-year associate, though the output must be proofed. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025PerplexityValues“Faster than Lexis research for such items.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I like using it when I’ve been staring at a screen all day and can’t make words.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Westlaw AIValues“Ive been impressed with the Westlaw AI search feature.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesThe author uses ChatGPT daily for brainstorming and getting started on tasks, edits its output heavily, and says it makes them more efficient. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025NeutralThe author says AI and TAR are essential in ediscovery and helpful for summaries and drafting, but warns that confidentiality requires an enterprise agreement and that many tools labeled AI are older technology. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Westlaw AIValues“Westlaw’s AI tool is helpful though. It actually provides relevant (and real) cases and statutes.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“It really struggles to understand direct quotes vs summaries. And this is on the premium version paid for by the firm.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Westlaw AICriticizes“People using it are the same as used natural language, they believe it’s the same search and it isn’t.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesThe author as in-house counsel found ChatGPT saved much time by building a search strategy and script for a large ediscovery project and by flagging export size limits. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ValuesThe author says AI builds Boolean search strings for Westlaw and Lexis well enough to save time, though they need tweaking. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Sometimes it’s on the money, most of the time it’s not. ChatGPT will make some random statute up,”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Lexis+ AICriticizesThe author says their firm's paid Lexis AI is even worse than ChatGPT despite having access to the Lexis database. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“General purpose AI, e.g., ChatGPT, is very useful for a whole host of tasks day in and day out.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTNeutralThe author says ChatGPT can be used without letting it train on your data and has many legal uses that involve no confidential material. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTMixed“Legal research. It sucks at this. It just doesn't have access to the amount of materials that Westlaw or Lexis has.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025CoCounselValues“The most AI I use is asking that Westlaw Co-Counsel thing a question so I can riddle out what I’m actually trying to research.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“ChatGPT is much more toy than tool.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTMixed“I've had ChatGPT provide made up cases (or at least cases that failed to turn up in Lexis or Westlaw) or provide holdings from the cases that are wildly different than what I read the cases to actually say.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ValuesThe author argues that reviewing and editing an AI draft is faster than writing from scratch and that AI is a tool lawyers should learn. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025GeminiValues“A careful prompt can get me like 80% of the way to a good contract of a common sort, and then I take it the rest of the way.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“General purpose AI like ChatGPT have the whole Internet as the reference pool for answers and they mine your data and inputs to train themselves, which is a client confidentiality nightmare.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I’m not using it for any mission critical purposes, but ChatGPT is great for ancillary tasks that are not a good use of my time.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ValuesIs happy with Smokeball's built-in AI for summarizing police reports, case law and documents and for drafting letters, while still reading everything. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I have to manually fix the entries that it flags, but it's way faster than screwing around with appeals.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“It makes stuff up to support its arguments because it’s not capable of creating arguments supported by existing cases.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ClaudeValues“It helps me be more creative in how I make arguments but I never have it do research.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I found that to be the most helpful use of it, rather than specific substantive questions.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesFinds ChatGPT and Copilot far better than Google for research and say its summaries of public documents match a typical paralegal's, but confidentiality and ethics concerns keep them from using client material. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTMixed“It didn’t produce any arguments I didn’t come up with through my own research, but the results were decent.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“ChatGPT is a good tool to use if you’re editing non-sensitive non client information.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It takes 2 minutes to generate as opposed to me working it from scratch for a 3rd time and taking a half hour.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025CopilotMixed“I don’t trust the cases or quotes it send back, but it’s helpful it providing a different vocabulary and giving me ideas on how to formulate search inquiries.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I’m in ID and one thing that people have consistently said ChatGPT is decent for is coming up with billing narratives.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2025ChatGPTValues“It does a great job at providing me with a starting point.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 7, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“I also pay $20 for chatgpt and it hallucinated summing columns, as well as pulling climate data for cities”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 6, 2025ChatGPTMixed“If you are trying to solve a problem solely by asking chatgpt without actually looking at the laws, then it will take you longer than if you had done it by yourself”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 6, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Until recently, using the “share” feature (not necessarily just for posting to social media, as I understand it, but also to share with colleagues) would make the information publicly available and would appear in Google searches.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesThe author uses ChatGPT to write memos from their own research and outline and to simplify language for clients, reviews output carefully, and finds it mostly accurate and time-saving. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It helps me because I prefer to edit rather than write.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It's good enough that I would hand it to a paralegal or new attorney and tell them to follow it verbatim.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It’s really good at finding them and saves me a bunch of time.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It’s not perfect, but it can definitely save time and make your day-to-day more efficient.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizesThe author does not use ChatGPT in practice and recovered fees after having to respond to opposing counsel's brief containing hallucinated content from it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Westlaw AIMixed“It’s not bad for getting the basics of an unfamiliar area of law, but it’s not going to give you a good or even helpful answer to anything nuanced.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTMixed“It does make up stuff a lot though.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“What it spits back at me is amazingly insightful.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesThe author finds ChatGPT good for outlining long client emails and turning notes into an agreement, faster than a first-year associate, though the output must be proofed. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025PerplexityValues“Faster than Lexis research for such items.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I like using it when I’ve been staring at a screen all day and can’t make words.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Westlaw AIValues“Ive been impressed with the Westlaw AI search feature.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesThe author uses ChatGPT daily for brainstorming and getting started on tasks, edits its output heavily, and says it makes them more efficient. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025NeutralThe author says AI and TAR are essential in ediscovery and helpful for summaries and drafting, but warns that confidentiality requires an enterprise agreement and that many tools labeled AI are older technology. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Westlaw AIValues“Westlaw’s AI tool is helpful though. It actually provides relevant (and real) cases and statutes.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“It really struggles to understand direct quotes vs summaries. And this is on the premium version paid for by the firm.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Westlaw AICriticizes“People using it are the same as used natural language, they believe it’s the same search and it isn’t.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesThe author as in-house counsel found ChatGPT saved much time by building a search strategy and script for a large ediscovery project and by flagging export size limits. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ValuesThe author says AI builds Boolean search strings for Westlaw and Lexis well enough to save time, though they need tweaking. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Sometimes it’s on the money, most of the time it’s not. ChatGPT will make some random statute up,”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“Obviously I still reviewed everything myself but the initial review saved me some serious time.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025Lexis+ AICriticizesThe author says their firm's paid Lexis AI is even worse than ChatGPT despite having access to the Lexis database. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“General purpose AI, e.g., ChatGPT, is very useful for a whole host of tasks day in and day out.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTNeutralThe author says ChatGPT can be used without letting it train on your data and has many legal uses that involve no confidential material. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTMixed“Legal research. It sucks at this. It just doesn't have access to the amount of materials that Westlaw or Lexis has.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025CoCounselValues“The most AI I use is asking that Westlaw Co-Counsel thing a question so I can riddle out what I’m actually trying to research.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“ChatGPT is much more toy than tool.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTMixed“I've had ChatGPT provide made up cases (or at least cases that failed to turn up in Lexis or Westlaw) or provide holdings from the cases that are wildly different than what I read the cases to actually say.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ValuesThe author argues that reviewing and editing an AI draft is faster than writing from scratch and that AI is a tool lawyers should learn. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025GeminiValues“A careful prompt can get me like 80% of the way to a good contract of a common sort, and then I take it the rest of the way.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“General purpose AI like ChatGPT have the whole Internet as the reference pool for answers and they mine your data and inputs to train themselves, which is a client confidentiality nightmare.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I’m not using it for any mission critical purposes, but ChatGPT is great for ancillary tasks that are not a good use of my time.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ValuesIs happy with Smokeball's built-in AI for summarizing police reports, case law and documents and for drafting letters, while still reading everything. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I have to manually fix the entries that it flags, but it's way faster than screwing around with appeals.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“It makes stuff up to support its arguments because it’s not capable of creating arguments supported by existing cases.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ClaudeValues“It helps me be more creative in how I make arguments but I never have it do research.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I found that to be the most helpful use of it, rather than specific substantive questions.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValuesFinds ChatGPT and Copilot far better than Google for research and say its summaries of public documents match a typical paralegal's, but confidentiality and ethics concerns keep them from using client material. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTMixed“It didn’t produce any arguments I didn’t come up with through my own research, but the results were decent.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“ChatGPT is a good tool to use if you’re editing non-sensitive non client information.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“It takes 2 minutes to generate as opposed to me working it from scratch for a 3rd time and taking a half hour.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025CopilotMixed“I don’t trust the cases or quotes it send back, but it’s helpful it providing a different vocabulary and giving me ideas on how to formulate search inquiries.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2025ChatGPTValues“I’m in ID and one thing that people have consistently said ChatGPT is decent for is coming up with billing narratives.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 28, 2025ChatGPTMixed“At this point I would NEVER use ChatGPT for research. It fails at that miserably.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 27, 2025ChatGPTNeutralSuggests buying ChatGPT and experimenting to learn what it can and cannot do, mainly using it to draft polite emails to opposing counsel. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 27, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“It misread what the subsection said, pointed me to case law that didn’t apply at all, and used maybe a third of the important case law that you *would* use if you *had* been using the section ChatGPT thought was the right one.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 26, 2025ChatGPTValues“It’s useful for drafting and some legal research.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 26, 2025CriticizesThe firm bans AI use except for tools built into Westlaw, Lexis and document review platforms, citing opposing counsel twice ordered to show cause over hallucinated quotations. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 26, 2025Lexis+ AIValues“It doesn't pull from the internet. It only pulls from its own database so it very rarely if ever, hallucinated.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 5, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“That being said, I would never use ChatGPT for legal research, paid version or not…”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 4, 2025ChatGPTValues“It’s really been supercharged with Claude 3.7 and the latest ChatGPT Enterprise models.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 4, 2025ChatGPTMixed“Its ok but definitely cant replace what humans draft.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 4, 2025CoCounselValues“In the past, when I would have an associate spend 2-3 days on research, I can now handle that in one to 3 hrs max, then I just give all the relevant research to the associate to do the drafting.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 4, 2025CriticizesA client used AI to produce case law that the paralegal could not find in Lexis, though the author still sees AI as something lawyers review rather than a replacement. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · May 4, 2025Westlaw AIMixed“The most scary part:AI is pretty good at making you think it did a detailed analysis but it often omits or confuses things in very subtle ways.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 4, 2025GeminiCriticizes“Gemini hit walls imo. stops in the middle of the process like someone flipped a switch.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025ChatGPTValues“In litigation, if you feed the right data in and give detailed instructions it saves an ENORMOUS amount of time.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025GeminiValues“It’s surgically precise and extremely accurate in every little detail.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025ValuesAI is very good at drafting contracts and boilerplate faster than pulling templates, but citation hallucination still blocks its use for briefs. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025Westlaw AIValues“It’s good at getting you to the relevant caselaw quickly and efficiently, and orienting you on the topic, which is what it’s designed to do.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025Westlaw AIMixed“It’s a good high level summary of the case law on topic, sort of like a bespoke treatise. But good luck drilling down and finding cases that you’d actually cite in a brief.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025GeminiMixed“It saved me an hour of two of the mundane but it’s not a replacement.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025ChatGPTValues“If you're able to competently guide it with prompts, the AI is indeed getting scary good.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025ChatGPTValues“These things are going to transform the business model, undoubtedly.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025CoCounselValues“I already use Westlaw’s experimental CoCounsel tool extensively in my legal research. I get leads on caselaw that would have taken me hours to find on my own in a matter of minutes.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025Westlaw AIValues“Most AIs, yes. But Westlaw already has a built-in legal research AI which is pretty good for being so new.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025ChatGPTValues“I started trying it again a few weeks ago and now I have no hope of writing anywhere near the AI's level and it writes 20,000 times as fast as me :(.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025CoCounselValues“The hallucination rate of CoCounsel is near 0%.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 3, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“You guys do know that everything in ChatGpT and Gemini is discoverable right? You should really only use it for very basic stuff and never put any client information into it.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Nov 7, 2025ChatGPTNeutral“I use ChatGPT for quick drafts and outlines but never for anything I’d file or cite.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 27, 2025ValuesNotebookLM loaded with the lawyer's own legal materials gives answers with footnotes to exact source text and is the first place they ask research questions. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 25, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“I think eventually it will be a powerful tool but now it's sort of like an overpowered legal researcher that is on stimulants. High volume but not trustworthy.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 25, 2025ChatGPTMixed“Do not use the consumer interfaces, they do not have enterprise grade privacy.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 25, 2025ChatGPTMixed“I consider ChatGPT like a dishonest intern- maybe you’ll get good work but you’d better check it carefully”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 25, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Reminder that giving client information to chatGPT is a violation of attorney-client privilege!”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 25, 2025ChatGPTValues“I use it like an assistant. Proofread things, make sure the tenses don't change midway through a sentence, etc.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 25, 2025ChatGPTValues“It’s pretty awesome for summarizing factual information from large PDFs, like medical records.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 25, 2025Lexis+ AIValues“The Lexis AI search tool is honestly a time saver. If I need a quick list of cases to start research into an issue, it's fast and efficient.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTValues“I feel pretty strongly that if you're not getting value out of ChatGPT as an in-house counsel, you should probably be thinking a little more outside the box.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTCriticizes“By the time you have written a prompt and edited it, you could have just gone through the company database or internet for examples/templates and revised them a little.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024PerplexityValues“From my understanding, they're built to alleviate this issue by grounding their answers by providing actual sources”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTCriticizes“ChatGPT can’t even do basic data entry, I work in Tax Law and I was trying to get it to put in salaries from a tax year to correspond by name and ID number into an excel column, it was hallucinating random BS numbers.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTCriticizes“It’s terrible at legal research. It’s also just terrible.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTCriticizes“I've done some trials and demos and the specialized ones were absolutely better, but only in the sense that standard chat-gpt is awful at legal research and complex drafting, and speciality tools are only bad at it.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024CopilotMixed“They’re pretty trash for just about anything else, and I’d guess that we’re 1-5 years minimum away from that changing.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTValues“With ChatGPT, we can automate a surprising amount of the initial triage and review.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTMixed“ChatGPT is terrible at research. But it's quite good at making qualitative judgments if you give it appropriate guidelines.”open
“I feel pretty strongly that if you're not getting value out of ChatGPT as an in-house counsel, you should probably be thinking a little more outside the box.”
in “ChatGPT Enterprise / Inhouse Lawyer - Thoughts and Discussion” · 10 voices
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTCriticizes“By the time you have written a prompt and edited it, you could have just gone through the company database or internet for examples/templates and revised them a little.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024PerplexityValues“From my understanding, they're built to alleviate this issue by grounding their answers by providing actual sources”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTCriticizes“ChatGPT can’t even do basic data entry, I work in Tax Law and I was trying to get it to put in salaries from a tax year to correspond by name and ID number into an excel column, it was hallucinating random BS numbers.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTCriticizes“It’s terrible at legal research. It’s also just terrible.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTCriticizes“I've done some trials and demos and the specialized ones were absolutely better, but only in the sense that standard chat-gpt is awful at legal research and complex drafting, and speciality tools are only bad at it.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024CopilotMixed“They’re pretty trash for just about anything else, and I’d guess that we’re 1-5 years minimum away from that changing.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTValues“With ChatGPT, we can automate a surprising amount of the initial triage and review.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTMixed“ChatGPT is terrible at research. But it's quite good at making qualitative judgments if you give it appropriate guidelines.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 3, 2024ChatGPTMixed“About 50% of the stuff it produces are hallucinations or just wrong.”open
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