“When I tried to Sheperdize the cite, it became apparent this little nugget was cut from whole cloth.”
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- 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, 2026CoCounselValues
“Honestly it's been pretty useful this summer for me considering the low level of effort cocounsel requires.”
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
“A Lexis product shouldn't be fabricating cites.”
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;”
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