“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.”
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- r/legaltech · Sep 6, 2026CriticizesClient work should go through accounts under a business agreement, and personal-plan desktop apps raise a confidentiality problem the lawyer must own. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Sep 3, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude's desktop app wins for us mainly on local file and folder handling.”
open - r/legaltech · Sep 3, 2026
ChatGPTValues“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, 2026
HarveyMixed“Harvey-class tools rarely win on raw paragraph quality alone.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026NeutralA general LLM can handle a document vault and allows one corporate-level agreement, and data management choices are a matter for the IT department. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues
“Claude Code can do everything the desktop version can do, but is easier to add skills, give access to an API, and build out exactly what I want.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizesFinds the personality given to Claude often annoying and off-putting. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyValues
“One good aspect of Harvey is the ability to dump a ton of documents in a vault, but you can get the same effect by connecting GPT to a drive of some sort (Google/SharePoint).”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyCriticizes
“Something like Harvey is little more than a wrapper around Claude or GTP so far as I can tell.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues
“Fable 5 turned out better and more thorough work than chatgpt's latest and greatest.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizes
“I hit usage limits with Claude Fable 5 sometimes, but I can use GPT on 5.6 with max all day and never have a limits issue.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues
“I find Claude to be extremely good for transactional legal work, with minimal hallucinations, and cautious in its outputs.”
open - r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ChatGPTValues
“The cited cases have all been correct and pincited correctly. It cites depo transcripts precisely.”
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