“AI doing research for me has, to date, been almost entirely useless. And that's with vLex.”
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- r/legaltech · Jan 20, 2026GeminiCriticizes
“IMHO. If you need the exact process that AI used to get your answer, you need to use a closed environment where you control the data, logic algorithms and training in order to trace back all of the details.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 27, 2025PerplexityCriticizes
“Even Perplexity that gives links to the sources, still gives citation wrong when I compare with the relating Rule.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 27, 2025ClaudeValues
“ChatGPT gave a 'plausible' summary, but Claude 3.5 was the only one that pulled the exact verbatim 40-day requirement from the Dec 2024 amendments.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 27, 2025GeminiValues
“I think it’s hard to dispute that, in the right hands, tools like Gemini 3, NotebookLM, or GPT 5.2 are powerful and can help people who know what they’re doing and are smart and cognitively flexible enough to work with fallible, hallucinating computer brains and make them work.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 26, 2025CoCounselCriticizes
“I've used AI stuff like Spellbook, CoCounsel, AI Lawyer, and the pattern I keep seeing is that the analysis label doesn't matter if the UI encourages people to accept changes like autopilot.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 26, 2025ValuesGeneral-purpose chatbots are expected to invent details and lawyers must check filings, but the author thinks specialized tools are useful and do not make lawyers worse. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Dec 25, 2025
ChatGPTCriticizes“It fed me hallucinations after hallucinations, building upon the original one, through maybe a 25-40 prompt discussion.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 25, 2025CriticizesAI is a negligible part of most law practices, tech vendors do not understand legal work, and lawyers are right to adopt slowly. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Dec 23, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes
“If ChatGPT is doing your legal writing, you’re playing with fire.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 22, 2025GeminiCriticizes
“Gemini is literally a work in progress. So is NotebookLM.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 22, 2025GeminiValuesGemini and NotebookLM are clearly useful for lawyers who write and work with large document sets. (summary, not a quote)open