“The thing I like about it is that it's just an assistant, I mean the main job is still in the hands of the lawyer which is an expert more than AI could ever be.”
On r/LawFirm · Sep 30, 2026
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Said in “Is anyone else still spending 30-45 minutes per intake call just figuring out if the case is even worth taking?”
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“There are some AI chat bots that make strong claims about privacy, like Venice, but ChatGPT and Claude don't (as far as I know) and I honestly wouldn't use any of them.”
in “Is anyone else still spending 30-45 minutes per intake call just figuring out if the case is even worth taking…” · 2 voices
“As a lawyer, Claude 4 is the best writer, and usually, but not always, the leader in legal reasoning.”
in “Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05”
“After test driving Harvey, the Lexus AI product, Chat, and Claude, we ended up going with a Claude team plan and keeping our Westlaw classic subscription (pretty cheap for our small law firm).”
“Zero Data Retention (ZDR) is Enterprise-only, not available on Team.”open
“If you're using Fable, your data is being retained for 30 days for abuse monitoring.”open
“Yeah, we require turning Claude memory off to prevent cross-matter contamination.”open
“We are using Claude Team and very happy with it.”open
“Done start your legal research with Claude. You'll get hallucinations and if even one ends up in the brief you file then you're in hot water.”open
“I would agree with sentiments, teams is a step up but Enterprise is where it’s proper enterprise grade.”open
“Team and Enterprise run under Anthropic's Commercial Terms, no training by default.”open
“Perplexity Enterprise Pro is $40 a seat, includes tokens, and is enterprise level with ZDR, audit trail, etc.”open
“The first version was sub par to be perfectly honest but early feedback of their new version is very positive.”open
“Claude Team doesn't train on your data, but client info is still being transmitted to Anthropic's servers, you're relying on their security, not your own.”open
“Just get CoCounsel. You’re over thinking trying to mix and match to save a few bucks.”open
“Bottom line: the Team plan is a big step up from the wild-west alternative, but I'd treat the ZDR/Enterprise terms as the actual privilege boundary, not the Team UI setting.”open
ChatGPTCriticizes“From the compliance side, it's a headache. It was too much of a footgun with a ZDR + new model = non-compliant.”open
“We are using Eve and CoCounsel with Westlaw to avoid that right now while I build out some automation with Claude but my goal is to do essentially what you're doing and tie Claude to CoCounsel to be able to do everything in one place.”open
“When you crank it up to opus level extra it actually does this very well.”open
“I would use Perplexity Enterprise Pro- only $40 a seat and get the benefits of Claude Opus 8 and ChatGPT with a ZDR, audit trail, etc.”open
“Ultimately, they are warning that if you use any other tier (at this moment) that doesn't include ZDR or is a tenant solution that includes such, then your confidential information can be read by their employees in that 30-day hold.”open
“Anthropic states that you don't have confidentiality unless you use ZDR or a tenant solution that provides for confidentiality.”open
“It shines in analyzing long AIA construction docs and summarizing them or editing them within co-work.”open
“I allow claude access to my emails for admin support and select documents I feed it to prepare stuff I want it to prepare, then I finish up the work myself since its not able to prepare final work product to my liking anyway.”open
“Claude Teams provides no facility for you to do an ediscovery of your firm’s usage of Claude.”open
“If you have to do any sort of discovery or production of prompts and/or responses in Claude, Team won’t allow you to do so.”open
