What lawyers say about AI for summarization. 286 public voices since 2023, as of : 114 like what they use and 91 do not. Most discussed: ChatGPT (114 voices, 45 like and 39 dislike); CoCounsel (33 voices, 6 like and 16 dislike); Claude (27 voices, 19 like and 3 dislike). The most common complaint is accuracy (87 voices) and the most common thing they value is time saved (80 voices). The dated summarization report has every tool with its voices and outside tests.
Depositions, records and long documents: what lawyers say about AI summaries. 286 voices on record since 2023: 114 like what they use, 91 don’t, the rest are mixed or neutral.
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselMixedThe Westlaw-backed knowledge base is the real selling point, but drafting and Q&A features are not much better than a well-prompted Claude, so value depends on how research-heavy the practice is. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselMixed“I ran a 40 lawyer pilot recently and came away impressed. Expected to hate it based on what I read, but the updated platform they rolled out in August is much better.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselValues“The legal knowledge and database of citations and flags with Claude’s reasoning models can't be beat.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselValues“I use CoCounsel extensively as a corporate associate. It is very good.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselValues“I attended a demo of Westlaw's CoCounsel a few weeks ago and was thoroughly impressed.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“The last time I ran a prompt through cocounsel, its output was that I should consult an attorney.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“It can find cases that answer your question very well. But it can’t understand the significance of anything it finds, making it useless for drafting.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“In my opinion, it’s not enough better than a top tier ChatGPT subscription to be worth paying the price Thompson Reuters is asking.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“It's good - based off Claude - with LN resources (if you've paid and have access to them, of course). It's as perfectly mediocre as you'd expect.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“The partner I’m working with LOVES Cocounsel and I consistently struggle to make it do what I need it to do. Almost always faster to do it myself.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselNeutral“No way to save instructions that I know of.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“From my experience, CoCounsel can reliably analyze facts/input I provide it with general legal concepts, but lacks the capacity to narrowly analyze or apply specific case law.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“I think it’s overpriced for what it does. But that’s based on my free trial a couple of months ago.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“It's pretty good for broadly picking stuff out of there but connected Claude can't see it which is a bummer.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026ClaudeValues“I've reduced understating/overstating significantly through those.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“It's got access to resources but the actual AI of it doesn't seem any better than the other products out there.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 22, 2026Westlaw AIValues“Westlaw and Lexis’s AI platforms have hyperlinked footnotes everywhere so you can see where it pulled the information from.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 22, 2026ChatGPTValues“It's an incredibly useful tool in many areas of the law, and life.”open
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 17, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey vault is amazing for working with discovery productions.”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, 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 · Oct 11, 2026CriticizesVendor documentation shows web search queries and EU data residency fall outside the no-training and DPA protections for Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 9, 2026NeutralConsumer and business plans from OpenAI and Anthropic differ in data protection, yet none creates privilege and only enterprise API use gives zero retention. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 8, 2026ChatGPTValues“The contract is no different from them using any other tool out there.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 7, 2026NeutralClient data can be redacted with a small local model before it goes to Claude or ChatGPT, though open-source local models perform worse than closed ones. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 7, 2026ClaudeValuesLawyers should use the Claude Teams plan even as a solo practitioner and avoid putting protected third-party litigation data into lower tiers. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“GPT will always spot something that Claude has got wrong or missed, and visa versa”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026CopilotCriticizes“Copilot is deceptively expensive, especially Cowork”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026HarveyNeutral“I think a big part of Harvey and Legora’s moat is trust by association.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026MixedNo-training settings on mid-tier plans are a good first step, but privilege protection depends on contractual terms covering retention, provider review access and admin controls. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe firm uses an Enterprise Claude plan installed locally with training disabled, avoids ChatGPT, and never enters confidential client data. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTValues“I personally see that as overkill given how much data attorneys regularly entrust to digital providers without that same standard.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“It's only the pure consumer level plans that require opt-out instead of defaulting to it.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTValues“Both of these services default to not training on any of your chats or data rather than requiring you to opt out. So quite affordable.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTValues“Both of these services default to not training on any of your chats or data rather than requiring you to opt out. So quite affordable.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralEnterprise Claude would be an approved tool while personal Claude or ChatGPT accounts would not be. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutral“This ruling says nothing about attorneys using AI and confidential information, it just confirms that AI tools are just as valid for search by authorities as is google, facebook, or any other digital tool on your machine.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Even the paid Claude AI consumer plans do not contain a confidentiality rider.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 15, 2026MixedGeneral models like Claude are excellent for drafting and analysis, but specialized tools earn their place on large, messy record sets through OCR, deduplication and page citations. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 13, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe author trains Claude's skills by running the same task in parallel, then giving Claude their own version so it can improve the skill. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 13, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude's raw quality beats the legal-specific tools; the setup is where people stall.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 11, 2026NeutralBefore choosing any legal AI vendor, lawyers should get written answers on training use, data retention, add-on coverage and who can access client data. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 9, 2026ClaudeValues“It's literally a good folder structure and proper markdown files for routing and memory that makes AI able to continuously improve as you use it, and solve the context problem.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 9, 2026ClaudeValues“Hi there, so the AI model/engine running your ai environment really doesn't matter a whole lot, but Claude Opus5.5 is the way to go at the moment (all the top models, open or closed source are pretty good at this point).”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 7, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude is able to find me necessary cases and cite them and argue with them properly.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 7, 2026ValuesThe author switched from Claude to OpenCase for workflow features like in-line citation checking and organized matter documents, saving time from research to first draft while still reviewing everything. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralRunning Claude locally on a PC with active client files lets it access everything quickly without uploads and at little cost. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClioNeutralThe author uses Outlook's AI to edit emails and Clio's Vincent for document review. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeValues“From about opus 4.8 got claude on the level, where in middle of the case it can draft reasonable filing which needs reasonable ammount of editing.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe author wrote a detailed two-page claude.md covering first-page layout and date formats to standardize Claude's drafting. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeValues“Since we use Clio manage for the office agenda we connected MCP server to Claude desktop as extension and it works great.”open
r/paralegal · Oct 3, 2026ClioValuesLikes Clio as a law firm platform and is promoting it at work, but has not used its AI features. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioMixed“Use Clio as your core CMS and Clio Work for quick admin tasks (summarizing phone notes, status drafting), but look at specialized tools for heavy medical extractions and full demand generation.”open
r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioValues“I’ve been learning and working with Clio Manage, and I’ve found it particularly useful for keeping matters, tasks, documents, contacts, and deadlines organized in one place.”open
“Use Clio as your core CMS and Clio Work for quick admin tasks (summarizing phone notes, status drafting), but look at specialized tools for heavy medical extractions and full demand generation.”
r/paralegal · Oct 3, 2026ClioValuesLikes Clio as a law firm platform and is promoting it at work, but has not used its AI features. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioCriticizes“I had one case where my client was injured in a not so common area but Clio ignored it.”open
r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioValues“I’ve been learning and working with Clio Manage, and I’ve found it particularly useful for keeping matters, tasks, documents, contacts, and deadlines organized in one place.”open
“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.”
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, 2026ChatGPTValues“If both parties use ChatGPT to find the relevant laws or read contracts, they could come to an agreement without expensive legal fees.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed“It's good for research and data organization, but terrible for drafting.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed“In other cases/situations, I’ve tried just giving a model access to all the docs and saying “write a brief arguing X,” but it’s always terrible at this.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026NeutralNotes that Astra for Law scores slightly below Claude and Muse on a legal research benchmark, without praising or criticizing it. (summary, not a quote)open
“Maybe US statutes are different but if you are an Australian lawyer asking Claude to summarise an Act, you should have your practising certificate under review.”
“I tried to use Claude to create an index for me recently to a tranche of documents and I had to hand feed it small batches and then paste together the small tables it was able to create per batch.”
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 4, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“AI also writes poorly. I guess AI can draft better than the worst attorneys, but any attorney who is intentional about honing their craft will outperform it by far.”open
“The memo includes everything from charges, exposure, what happened based on the evidence, and it cites all of its information it relies on (I.e. incident report page 2 and forensic analysis page 6).”
in “How wr use Claude in Our Workflows; How do you use AI?”
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“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
r/LawFirm · Aug 31, 2026ClaudeValues“We do a lot of motion practice and it cuts down time tremendously, especially when doing opposition to MSJ it’s very document heavy task.”open
“Using free tier AI apps like ChatGPT risk data being used for training and provide a good baseline for summaries or finding stuff in large documents.”
r/legaltech · Aug 17, 2026GeminiCriticizes“I’ve found every Gemini model in chat , even 3.1 Pro, to be absolutely shockingly awful with hallucinations.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 15, 2026ValuesLegal AI products are expensive, but cross-checking general models such as Gemini and Claude against each other worked well for the author's bankruptcy analysis. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 9, 2026ValuesHaving trained legal AI models, the author says they have improved from poor to better than the author in unfamiliar practice areas, though they cannot make court appearances. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeMixed“It's definitely a major time savior thiguh it has its significant costs.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues“Over the course of an hour or two of iterations back and forth it spit out a very solid letter.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude has saved me so much time and has done such a good work.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ValuesAI makes big-law M&A work more efficient but juniors outsource their critical thinking, and it is not yet reducing the need for junior lawyers. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues“I use Claude Fable/Opus on extra effort all day. It’s made me much more efficient.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues“Everything we’d want a junior/intern to do, LLMs do much better, quicker, and at a fraction of the cost.”open
“It’s very good at verifying facts against a record, changing the tone of a document, summarizing briefs, and measuring the strengths and weaknesses of arguments though.”
in “Help me understand what Harvey has that Claude + connectors do not” · 30 voices
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyMixed“You pay a massive seat fee for turnkey convenience rather than some proprietary AI capability.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 4, 2026HarveyValues“What you're paying for with any of these is everything around the model.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 29, 2026CriticizesExisting legal AI tools are a thin layer over Claude and cannot guarantee accurate citations, so the author built their own research system for a pro se case. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 28, 2026HarveyValues“If you have Claude plus good legal database access and don't mind putting the pieces together yourself, you can get surprisingly close.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 25, 2026ClaudeValues“If you're comfortable building your own setup with Claude and connectors, that should also work pretty well.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 24, 2026HarveyValues“It also satisfies firmwide SOC 2 compliance, zero-data-retention rules, and audit requirements right out of the box, which BigLaw IT teams demand.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeValuesClaude with connectors beats legal AI tools for a lawyer skilled with AI, but uploading documents raises confidentiality concerns about training data. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 22, 2026HarveyCriticizes“If the underlying provider locks all the way in and expands to the edges and further, nothing currently survives.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 22, 2026ClaudeValues“For many day to day tasks, Claude works equally as good IMO, but if a firm has the wallet, I think it’s better to purchase and implement a system.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 22, 2026HarveyValues“From a tech perspective, Harvey’s value is not just the AI. It also combines trusted legal sources, citation checking, security, and workflows made for law firms.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026ClaudeValues“Having the flexibility to use general purpose tools generally is valuable, and for the cost of seat licenses to Harvey you can deploy a lot of horsepower directly.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyValues“I strongly believe anyone saying anything you can do in Harvey you can do with Claude (even in the Enterprise) is uninformed and speaking outside their purview.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Models and their owners will catch up, and the utility will fall off of a cliff.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyValues“I just wanted to present my experience as someone who has actually used Harvey, as so much of what I read in this sub about it is nonsense by those who've never used it.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026ValuesRecommends the open-source MikeOS, built by a former Latham attorney, as performing well against Legora and Harvey. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey has insider access to OpenAI and newer models than the public.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyCriticizes“There's nothing special about Harvey. You can use any foundational model to achieve the same thing”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey allows processing over 10,000 documents and will happily put them in a grid and run prompts on each one.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026ClaudeNeutral“A premium seat has a lot of capacity even for Opus usage though, those are serious subsidies or betting that most people won't come close to maximizing a seat.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyMixed“There's very little that Harvey will provide over Claude.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It’s not long ago (12mo max) that they were guiding people away from using it as a legal research tool in their official training (presumably because of the hallucination risk, which they can never fully eliminate).”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026ClaudeValuesIs skeptical that Harvey's advantages will last, since base Claude's redlining is improving and the added value is unclear. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Nothing. You need to understand that the decision makers that hire Harvey never have to deal with the system themselves, as they have a myriad of middle managers that will land them a clean report with everything they want to know”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyValues“It's for lawyers and works amazingly for legal work.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“I would think that the AI features of Lexis can get your legal research to at least the same spot for less money.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyNeutral“It is, but it's opt-in only because of its different data retention policy.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey always struck me as one of this companies designed to set VC money on fire.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyValues“Watching a review table video now. Ok these do look very cool.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Nothing. The legal tech AIs were doomed with the release of Opus-level coding abilities.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026ClaudeValues“I would say Claude and Westlaw are about the same, but Claude is more useful because it can do a lot more than legal research.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“What I find are real cases but misquoted and irrelevant. Protege is very expensive and a huge rip off.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed“It can help give me a good basic draft that I can heavily edit from there but I have to check everything before I finalize.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“Even in fall 2024 when I opened my solo shop the lexis rep was still saying that their AI would never hallucinate”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 6, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesCriticizes Lexis for not paying the compute cost to validate its own citations with a second pass, which reflects poorly on the product. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesLexis advertised its AI as free of fabricated citations, and the author finds that claim brazen. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizesThe author once liked Lexis and its AI but says Protege's quality has declined, so Westlaw now comes out ahead. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026CoCounselMixed“It definitely gets things wrong but hasn't full-scale hallucinated yet.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AINeutral“Lexis is the premier legal research tool along with WestLaw, presumabaly their AI tools should be top notch and not hallucinating since they own the databases.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed“Whenever I try to use Protege for research it seems to give me cases that really just stand for very general legal propositions, often tenuously.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“According to big brother Chat GPT, lil sis Lexis Protege is guilty of the following: * a real case name from another jurisdiction;”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 5, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“When I tried to Sheperdize the cite, it became apparent this little nugget was cut from whole cloth.”open
r/paralegal · Jun 30, 2026ClioCriticizes“Do it yourself or hire someone and it will be the cost of just a couple months of Clio AI, then you’ll have it forever.”open
r/paralegal · Jun 30, 2026ClioValues“We use Clio Manage AI for calendaring and it helps make calendaring faster but I prefer Clio Work (like Claude/Chat GPT) for summaries, chronologies, and discovery.”open
r/paralegal · Jun 30, 2026ClaudeValues“I love being able to upload a scheduling order and it calendaring everything for me. I don’t have to go back and check that it’s correct.”open
“With your stack, the stronger use cases are probably things like turning case notes/docs into summaries, building timelines, drafting client updates, pulling action items from emails, or preparing first-pass internal memos from existing materials.”
in “Looking for anyone to give a brief breakdown on how they have been implementing AI Tools” · 3 voices
r/legaltech · Jun 15, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude is also very good for reading raw ediscovery files, at least for smallish matters.”open
r/legaltech · Jun 12, 2026ClaudeValues“It has been truly great for augmentation purposes like synthesizing batches of documents and doing first drafts of work product once I have worked through the underlying facts and law with it.”open
r/legaltech · Jun 8, 2026MixedClaude, GPT-4 and Gemini work well for reviewing case documents, but firms should use enterprise terms or redact client information first. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jun 3, 2026ClaudeValues“I’m a solo using Claude Team for the higher, commercial TOS.”open
r/legaltech · Jun 3, 2026ClaudeValues“The closer to a raw Claude Code agent and harness the better.”open
r/legaltech · Jun 3, 2026ChatGPTMixed“Don't use the free versions for this. You need to upgrade to ChatGPT Team or Claude Team because their privacy terms explicitly state they don't train models on your data, or just use a dedicated legal AI tool that has built-in SOC 2 compliance.”open
r/legaltech · Jun 3, 2026CriticizesGeneral AI tools like GPT, Claude and Gemini carry a large security risk for law firm work. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jun 3, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Zero data retention nearly impossible without enterprise or Claude Team but with the settings mentioned, it automatically deletes after 30 days.”open
r/legaltech · Jun 2, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude recognized that AI agents need cache to function without going broke; so Claude's ZDR will "retain" your inputs in RAM until those cache expire.”open
r/legaltech · Jun 2, 2026NeutralFor thousands of pages of medical records, use a local or private setup with a redaction pipeline rather than one big LLM upload, and consider disclosing the upload to clients. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jun 2, 2026ChatGPTValues“A lot of small firms end up using enterprise Claude or ChatGPT setups instead of consumer versions for that reason.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 1, 2026CoCounselNeutralUses Westlaw CoCounsel for medical records, without evaluating it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 1, 2026MixedDoes not use AI and reads every cited case because of hallucination risk, but thinks it can let a mediocre attorney research as fast as a skilled one. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 1, 2026CopilotValuesWent from skeptic to fan after using case-specific Copilot agents to sift through 60 hours of deposition testimony. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 1, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes“The best on the market for "find me this" in law self reports an 80% rate of non hallucinations and does not report missed cites at all.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 1, 2026Westlaw AIValues“I use the Westlaw AI for research and I was a damn good researcher but this is 1000 times better and fast.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 31, 2026ClaudeNeutral“It’s a little inconvenient because it’s not directly integrated with our billing software.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 31, 2026CoCounselValues“Co-counsel’s answer was way better than the student and structured the response in literally the same way I did (on a nuanced topic where law was developing, not explicit, and structuring wasn’t obvious).”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 31, 2026CoCounselMixed“Maybe I finish a draft and want CoCounsel to cite check it which is a useful feature but I’ve had it take 10+ minutes to do so which means I usually move onto something else and come back to it only to find that my Westlaw sign in times.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 31, 2026Westlaw AIMixed“I have used Westlaw AI to do research, and its fine, but I can do just as well without it.”open
“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.”
in “How is everyone using AI to scale?” · 6 voices
r/LawFirm · May 20, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude is good at "tell me which of these 200 emails mention X."”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/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“My concern was and continues to be the input of medical record/record summaries into ChatGPT with the person’s name and DOB most likely.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I am against using chatGPT for medical record summaries.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“100% AI is being used in medical summaries, it just has to be a private version and not ChatGPT.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I also don’t want to input medical records into ChatGPT and then potentially suffer serious consequences.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“My concern was and continues to be the input of medical record/record summaries into ChatGPT with the person’s name and DOB most likely.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I am against using chatGPT for medical record summaries.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“100% AI is being used in medical summaries, it just has to be a private version and not ChatGPT.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026CopilotValues“Copilot would be better than freeGPT for that reason…”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“My concern was and continues to be the input of medical record/record summaries into ChatGPT with the person’s name and DOB most likely.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I am against using chatGPT for medical record summaries.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I also don’t want to input medical records into ChatGPT and then potentially suffer serious consequences.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026CopilotValues“Copilot would be better than freeGPT for that reason…”open
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