A voice on r/Lawyertalk about Claude, Sep 17, 2026

r/LawyertalkSep 17, 2026

“Clio tried to push me, a new solo, into buying a $700/month AI package and their intake and case management systems were clearly two different software programs where you had to manually export contracts to your case system.”

in “Starting my own practice in September. What software did you keep paying for after the first few months?” · 7 voices

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r/Lawyertalk · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude does everything pretty much neatly, if you use latest models and train your staff on how to use skills and prompts.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 16, 2026ClaudeNeutralAlready uses Claude regularly for drafting, research and document review; asks whether legal-specific AI is worth paying for. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 16, 2026ClaudeMixed“I like Claude some-to-most of the time when I use the free version with DingDuff for certain tasks I can safely/ethically/compliantly use it for”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 16, 2026ChatGPTNeutralLists ChatGPT as used for drafting, analysis, document review and research support in a remote firm's software stack, without evaluating it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 16, 2026ChatGPTNeutralLists a paid ChatGPT Plus subscription as part of their practice software, without evaluating it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 16, 2026ChatGPTValues“Chatgpt - so I can ACTUALLY practice law instead of faking it. $40/mo”open

Hacker NewsJun 5, 2025

Claude

“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”

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r/legaltechJul 11, 2026

Claude

“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).”

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r/legaltech · Jul 24, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Zero Data Retention (ZDR) is Enterprise-only, not available on Team.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“If you're using Fable, your data is being retained for 30 days for abuse monitoring.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026ClaudeNeutralShares a session closeout log template used with Claude to record files accessed, deletion of temporary files and confirmation that no external tools were used on privileged matters. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Yeah, we require turning Claude memory off to prevent cross-matter contamination.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 13, 2026ClaudeValues“We are using Claude Team and very happy with it.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 13, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“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
r/legaltech · Jul 13, 2026ClaudeMixed“I would agree with sentiments, teams is a step up but Enterprise is where it’s proper enterprise grade.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Team and Enterprise run under Anthropic's Commercial Terms, no training by default.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026PerplexityNeutral“Perplexity Enterprise Pro is $40 a seat, includes tokens, and is enterprise level with ZDR, audit trail, etc.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026CoCounselMixed“The first version was sub par to be perfectly honest but early feedback of their new version is very positive.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 12, 2026ClaudeNeutral“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
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026CoCounselValues“Just get CoCounsel. You’re over thinking trying to mix and match to save a few bucks.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeMixed“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
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“From the compliance side, it's a headache. It was too much of a footgun with a ZDR + new model = non-compliant.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026CoCounselNeutral“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
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“When you crank it up to opus level extra it actually does this very well.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026PerplexityValues“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
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“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
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Anthropic states that you don't have confidentiality unless you use ZDR or a tenant solution that provides for confidentiality.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“It shines in analyzing long AIA construction docs and summarizing them or editing them within co-work.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeMixed“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
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Claude Teams provides no facility for you to do an ediscovery of your firm’s usage of Claude.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeNeutral“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

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