“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.”
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“The attorneys in my firm hated Westlaw CoCounsel, but are very happy with Clio/vLex for AI research.”
On r/legaltech · May 8, 2026
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Said in “AI for legal research”
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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.”
in “Does everyone use AI?”
“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
“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