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“I feel bad about using it but it’s infinitely Faster. We use Paxton and it’s great”
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- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2026ValuesAI tools are incredible and do not replace lawyers, but lawyers who do not embrace them will lag in productivity. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026ClaudeValues
“The real power is when it's something relatively moderate or even part of something and you can just "one shot" it - one prompt takes you 90% of the way there which would have taken hours before.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselValues
“I find cocounsel better at finding a thing I already know exists.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselValuesCoCounsel gives precise citations when told what to cite, so lawyers should learn to use it properly. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselValues
“We have cocounsel too and while it’s a great starting point for research and it’s great for reviewing/summarizing hundreds of pages, that’s where it ends for me.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“I wiped his ass with three hour long responses that actually cited controlling rules, because co counsel didn't give a damn about several small nuances it deemed irrelevant.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselValues
“Once they went agentic, it became leaps and bounds better.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes
“I have to read the actual citation to see if it is on point.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026
ChatGPTCriticizes“More annoyingly, I’ll write really thought-out memos and he “revises” them by plugging them into AI and generating a more apathetic, em dash filled version that at least IMO is not better.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“Even CoCounsel and the like halucinates 1 out of 7-10 cases.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“I used cocounsel a couple of times out of curiosity, but it hallucinated some bullshit about what's in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so that was the end of that.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselCriticizes
“It gives helpful and accurate citations...sometimes. But it seems that more often that when I go read the cases it cites, those cases don't really say what CoCounsel says they say or stand for.”
open - r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselMixed
“It's an AI-based research aid, not a magic fucking genie.”
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