“That benchmark in the report clearly shows that there is not much added value or moat in the custom training of Harvey.”
On Hacker News · Jul 22, 2025
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“I believe that [...] this startup will win by having the UX that is best focused on lawyers and addresses lawyers' compliance concerns.”
in “Most AI startups are doomed” · 2 voices
“Lawyer here: Harvey was never very good, or useful. It mostly exists so large law firms can say they do AI.”
in “Claude for Legal” · 9 voices
“Everyone is busy discussing how amazing is this collection of markdown files for Claude... which Claude is known to randomly ignore.”open
“These companies have marketed their products so badly (or well, depending on your viewpoint) that lawyers think that these tools are glorified search engines. Then they get busted in court because the LLM made up citations, quotations etc.”open
LegoraCriticizes“I have a friend that runs a firm and uses Legora and can’t stand it.”open
“I think we should be realistic here, this is a more advanced version of those "will kits" that spit out a PDF.”open
HarveyCriticizes“There's other companies that have a much better understanding of the market and compliance issues but you don't hear about them because nobody wants to talk about legal tech.”open
“As a lawyer, I'm excited about this, but there are two roadblocks that I'm not sure how Anthropic will navigate:”open
“It seems like they ripped out Lexis, which is probably one of the most important tools for lawyers: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/pull/5 .”open
“When I asked Harvey and Legora the same research question they were basically the same answers.”
in “Harvey vs Legora” · 3 voices
HarveyMixed“Harvey missed the ask one time when I was trying to get it to revise/add a little to a paragraph and it gave me 3 very long paragraphs.”open
LegoraValues“I think it makes me 30% more efficient generally, but if I am writing briefs or summaries of documents it's much higher”open
