“I’m a huge fan, as it’s saved me many discovery headaches and has made my work day less stressful tbh.”
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- 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, 2026
HarveyCriticizes“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, 2026
LegoraValues“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.”
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