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“Lexis has proprietary content, Shepard, and decades of embedded distribution. That’s an actual moat independent of WL.”

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“CoCounsel 1.0 and 2.0 sucked. CoCounsel 3.0 is much much better.”

in “I think Legora may be strategically screwed” · 12 voices

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  • r/legaltech · Oct 10, 2026ValuesThe author's own command-line code on the same foundation LLM matches or beats Harvey and Legora prompts for general contract review, so output quality, ease of use and price are not the barrier. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/legaltech · Oct 9, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey probably has even more of a moat because of confidentiality issues with most AI products, you might need to disclose to opposing counsel or the court which tool you are using, and Harvey is the one least likely to cause a problem because most of biglaw uses it.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 21, 2026ClaudeMixed“Claude has degraded to the point where it is actually useless. It cannot follow instructions, it cannot see the big picture, and it is a terrible writer.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 17, 2026LegoraCriticizes“I can't stand the card-based Word Add In interface.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I doubt it's blatant but they'll be using something- your prompts, telemetry, an AI summary of your usage- all technically not your data.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026LegoraCriticizes“Based on all of our conversations, they don't have a meaningful edge on any of those.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026HarveyMixed“Midtier AI comfortable users found Harvey interesting and potentially useful and I am considering getting them subscriptions to use what is basically a wrapper.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“Lexis has proprietary content, Shepard, and decades of embedded distribution. That’s an actual moat independent of WL.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I personally think legora and Harvey prove that we are in a bubble. Literally gpt wrappers.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 14, 2026LegoraValues“As a question of motive yes, possibly, but Harvey and Legora are using the frontier models under the hood anyway and if you pay the frontier labs for a contract they will agree not to train on your data.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 14, 2026ChatGPTValues“The enterprise/business plan of a frontier model, particularly Claude or ChatGPT, is much better.”open
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“Harvey probably has even more of a moat because of confidentiality issues with most AI products, you might need to disclose to opposing counsel or the court which tool you are using, and Harvey is the one least likely to cause a problem because most of biglaw uses it.”

in “I think Legora may be strategically screwed” · 12 voices

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11 more voices in this thread
  • r/legaltech · Oct 10, 2026ValuesThe author's own command-line code on the same foundation LLM matches or beats Harvey and Legora prompts for general contract review, so output quality, ease of use and price are not the barrier. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 21, 2026ClaudeMixed“Claude has degraded to the point where it is actually useless. It cannot follow instructions, it cannot see the big picture, and it is a terrible writer.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 17, 2026LegoraCriticizes“I can't stand the card-based Word Add In interface.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I doubt it's blatant but they'll be using something- your prompts, telemetry, an AI summary of your usage- all technically not your data.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026LegoraCriticizes“Based on all of our conversations, they don't have a meaningful edge on any of those.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026CoCounselValues“CoCounsel 1.0 and 2.0 sucked. CoCounsel 3.0 is much much better.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026HarveyMixed“Midtier AI comfortable users found Harvey interesting and potentially useful and I am considering getting them subscriptions to use what is basically a wrapper.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“Lexis has proprietary content, Shepard, and decades of embedded distribution. That’s an actual moat independent of WL.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I personally think legora and Harvey prove that we are in a bubble. Literally gpt wrappers.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 14, 2026LegoraValues“As a question of motive yes, possibly, but Harvey and Legora are using the frontier models under the hood anyway and if you pay the frontier labs for a contract they will agree not to train on your data.”open
  • r/legaltech · Sep 14, 2026ChatGPTValues“The enterprise/business plan of a frontier model, particularly Claude or ChatGPT, is much better.”open
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“It didn't feel drastically different from using ChatGPT with the ability to search the web [...]”

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  • Hacker News · Jun 3, 2026CriticizesLLM-drafted motions look good and usually pass unnoticed but are ethically dubious and hard for a human to catch, and reviewers grow lazier as the models improve. (summary, not a quote)open
  • Hacker News · Jun 3, 2026MixedAI often outperforms knowledge workers, but only with the right questions and correction, and unchecked errors could be catastrophic in high-risk fields like legal work. (summary, not a quote)open
  • Hacker News · Jun 3, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“This is where AI offerings from Thomson or Lexis could shine, especially in jurisdictions where case law is not freely available online.”open
  • Hacker News · Jun 3, 2026MixedAI chatbots can save some work, but their knowledge cutoff means they miss recent case law, so professionals relying on them risk personal liability and may have to redo the work. (summary, not a quote)open
  • Hacker News · Jun 3, 2026ChatGPTMixed“They are unbelievable at finding niche cases you would never have found on your own.”open
  • Hacker News · Jun 3, 2026GeminiNeutral“NotebookLM was considered slightly better than 2.5 Pro by the evaluators.”open
  • Hacker News · Jun 3, 2026NeutralUses a coding agent to do initial legal research and drafting, pulls the full text of cited laws, then has Gemini look for issues and criticize the draft. (summary, not a quote)open
  • Hacker News · Jun 3, 2026GeminiCriticizesAsked Gemini about personal conflicts; found it too conservative and shallow, so handles serious matters himself, using AI only for templated text. (summary, not a quote)open