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“It is an excellent tool that saves an enormous amount of time, but you have to know how to use it i.e. very targeted prompts and keywords.”
On r/Lawyertalk · Oct 1, 2026
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“Vlex just produced a hallucination. You want something that works and you can trust them just spend the money on the big guys.”
in “Is unbundling research actually viable for Federal Lit?” · 2 voices
vLex VincentMixed“We’ve been trialing vLex (Vincent) because the AI summaries are decent, but the renewal quote is steep, and honestly, we barely touch the global/international databases.”open
“Yes, I'm tracking the litigation offerings, and making some light use of Clio Work (really, vLex's offering) but the tasks I'm presently comfortable use it for (or for which it can save time) are rather elementary.”
in “Anthropic thinks solo practitioners should not use Claude ethically, unlike Google and OpenAI” · 28 voices
“I usually deidentify anyway, but I find Claude so much more useful.”open
Values“Not sure if you’ve used tools like Spellbook, but it’s extremely powerful for legal drafting and contract review.”open
“Lexis AI produces case law that doesn’t say what Lexis claims it says for cases that are complex enough to actually research.”open
“Doesn’t feel great to buy more than you need but 150 a month is not extortionate for a lawyer using Claude for business.”open
“I’m honestly floored at how many people do not know that the native chat is different from the API.”open
“Claude is by far the best LLM in my opinion.”open
“ChatGPT has a two seat minimum, which is less bad, but I prefer Claude.”open
“Anthropic’s consumer TOS is a privacy waiver. Full stop.”open
“You can set up Claude with the equivalent Enterprise set up with claude api.”open
“Anthropic also changed its policy to allow any user to opt out of information being used for model training, so it's all moot.”open
“I exclusively use the API for legal work and it’s more powerful than the chat interface, and it’s way more expensive so Anthropic definitely wants companies to use it.”open
“We have it at my firm, which is 30-35 lawyers, and it is very inexpensive relative to other software we use (e.g. Everlaw).”open
“Claude still has rights to train on this data to improve their future models, and also to share with third parties at their will.”open
“If OpenAI and Google are willing to meet one-seat business users where they are, Anthropic forcing a five-seat jump makes Claude much harder to justify for anyone handling sensitive client or business material.”open
“The TOS still waives your right to privacy, grants Anthropic ability to share your chat with third parties unannounced, denies you any IP indemnification, the right to request immediate destruction of your data on their servers, amongst other things.”open
“Im working on an internal tool that let's me sanitize, work in Claude, then rehydrate the output.”open
“He thinks Claude is a better product, but Claude is inherently more expensive if he wants privacy protections.”open
“I prefer to use the frontier models’ native interfaces instead of API hookups, as the quality of the system-prompted reply and experience has a marked difference (I am a non-developer and use the service mainly for research or problem solving).”open
“There is no IP idemnification, and Anthropic still reserves the right to share your information with third parties.”open
“If I use it to draft something, I have it use Plaintiff and Defendant and other generic terms. But from what I’ve tested, it is the best at actually outputting something useful.”open
“The one closed AI that offer safety for lawyers is Lexi’s AI/protege. But it sucks *ss so bad.”open
“It's not a matter of honesty - if Claude can offer it to 5+ seat bundles, they can offer it to individuals, even if it's at a premium.”open
“Anthropic’s business-tier options require a five-seat minimum. That means you either pay for three or four extra empty seats, or stay on the consumer plan, which lacks the contractual privacy posture you need.”open
“It’s legal-specific and pulls from the Fastcase database.”
in “What AI programs are you all using?” · 19 voices
ChatGPTValues“For medical records summarization, a couple people in my firm use general LLMs with a structured prompt works surprisingly well.”open
ChatGPTCriticizesChatGPT missed contradictory findings and treatment gaps in medical record summaries, so the author switched to a specialized tool. (summary, not a quote)openChatGPTCriticizes“ChatGPT has shown this odd tendenancy to hallucinate citations or stretch their significance.”open
ChatGPTNeutralPays for ChatGPT Plus but always double checks citations and facts, and is considering Claude. (summary, not a quote)openValues“It comes in clutch when I get a client in an industry I’m unfamiliar with too.”open
ChatGPTCriticizes“I was shocked the other day when a client shared an agreement that was “based on a BigLaw form and some other stuff”—it was clearly written with ChatGPT and THE CONTRACT DID NOT HAVE CONSIDERATION”open
“For now, it’s mostly just a more sophisticated different kind of google search, that might or might not hallucinate a result.”open
“It's a good start off point, but even when I ask Lexis AI a question, it cites cases, and summarizes the, but when you look at the case - it doesn't say exactly what it says it says.”open
ChatGPTCriticizes“Both hallucinate cases and statutes so it takes more time to check their cites than it does to just do it myself.”open
“A few attorneys have revealed to me that they've used CoCounsel to get a quick medical summary and that's it's complete shit compared to what we, the paralegals, produce.”open
“I use Lexis AI, and it is much better than it was a year or so ago. Still not that great, but I couple it with ChatGPT for certain projects.”open
“I find it useful, when WL was selling it they said it operates at about the level of a 2nd year associate.”open
“Co-counsel is helpful for basic research. It does not hallucinate and you can click on the cases and read them.”open
ChatGPTMixed“Surprisingly, every citation ChatGPT has provided so far has been accurate.”open
Values“I haven’t used Westlaw’s, but have used Lexis’ and Spellbook. In my opinion, Spellbook is way better.”open
