920 conversations with several voices on the record, newest activity first. Open one to read every voice in it, quoted when there is a quotable sentence, summarized (and labeled) when not.
r/LawyertalkOct 20, 2026 to Oct 21, 20264 voices · 1 like · 3 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 21, 2026ChatGPTCriticizesThe author reported a lawyer to the bar for filings with misleading precedents invented by ChatGPT and for feeding client data into AI. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“I’ve caught even Lexis’s AI making mistakes.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 20, 2026HarveyValues“Now using Harvey. It is quite worrisome what it can do..”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 20, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Some of the worst lawyering I’ve ever seen has come from lawyers asking ChatGPT how to cross-examine a witness.”open
r/biglawOct 15, 2026 to Oct 19, 202638 voices · 15 like · 13 dislike
r/biglaw · Oct 19, 2026CriticizesLegal SaaS platforms like Harvey and Legora are just wrappers around LLMs, and the author's firm built its own in-house platform and sees their valuations as unjustified. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues“Boomer here, but I think Harvey is incredible.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues“When you know what you are doing and what you want, Harvey is great IMO.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026CoCounselNeutral“CoCounsel allows you to build workflows and combine with other sources too, though.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026HarveyValues“The US caselaw search is better because you can combine it with other sources so you can have it look through a set of litigation documents and run caselaw research to help figure out their significance at the same time.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026ClaudeValues“To be very clear, in my experience having these systems finely tuned to your individual work vs the level of tuning you can get out of harvey/cocounsel/co-pilot can represent 2-3x productivity increases.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey vault is amazing for working with discovery productions.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey also has a US Caselaw database where whichever model you pick will directly search for cases in the database.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026CriticizesSays lawyers will not use raw coding or chat tools and need a wrapper around the model to make it usable. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey can be used with Astra 6 or Fable, your firm just has to agree to API pricing.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey uses the Chat GPT and Claude models and you can actually pick which model.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026ChatGPTValues“What pisses me off is that our clients ARE using Claude and ChatGPT themselves and we’re stuck using these inferior models.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Alls I know is that I can’t keep track of all the platforms so I stick to my mans Harvey even though the other mans might be better.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“You do realize that Harvey was literally just an interface to access Claude since day 1.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey and Legora are inferior products, by magnitudes, and any firm that exclusively relies on these tools is falling behind in productivity and associate satisfaction.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues“If you are using Fable and you give it enough project data, it can function like your associate on that case who has a mastery of facts and super fast turnaround.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey sucks because it's just an API built on top of open-source AI models, which are way behind the models currently available through openAI or Claude.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizesYounger lawyers who grew up with general AI tools would be disadvantaged by using Harvey, while older lawyers can be forgiven for adopting it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“This is basically a fine tuned version of the Kimi K3 model which they claim is better but is clearly worse”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey does have its own propriety model. And yes, if you select a specific model, only the output is generated by that model, not all of the intervening tasks.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral“There is no “Harvey” model. Harvey just picks one of the models based on your prompt.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyMixed“I like to think of Harvey as an energetic junior, does their best, a fine starting point, but doesn’t produce a product I’d be willing to send a client without a deeeep review”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey's been killing it for me on the transaction side with the rote drafting and title work.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues“I use Harvey daily and think it’s a fantastic product (as long as you use it to supplement, not replace your work product)”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026Westlaw AIValues“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Even when I add docs to a vault and ask for a review table, getting Harvey to actually “read” the docs is like pulling teeth.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude code with a syfert.com MCP (or a courtlistener MCP, or ding duff) is 500% better than Harvey and Legora.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyMixed“It’s usually right but the times it isn’t it’s REALLY wrong.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I also do not think I’m getting real Opus 5 when I select it in Harvey. And it’s hella slow.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey profits by arbitrating token costs, so they use the cheapest models they think can get away with for the bulk of response.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“They came out years later than Harvey, when firms already adopted Harvey, but yeah, firms should abandon Harveyw”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“My firm has Harvey and CoCounsel, and I just use CC bc it has access to Westlaw.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It routinely gives me genuinely “lazy” answers that fail to address what are obviously critical aspects of the issue, in a way that is not true of Fable or Astra”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The only reason firms choose Harvey is it doesn’t use our data to train its AI due to confidentiality, or else they are trash”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“All other tasks, such as the actual research, review, etc, are handled by whatever model Harvey wants, including their own shitty “proprietary” models.”open
r/LawyertalkOct 18, 2026 to Oct 19, 202617 voices · 4 like · 3 dislike
“I ran a 40 lawyer pilot recently and came away impressed. Expected to hate it based on what I read, but the updated platform they rolled out in August is much better.”
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselMixedThe Westlaw-backed knowledge base is the real selling point, but drafting and Q&A features are not much better than a well-prompted Claude, so value depends on how research-heavy the practice is. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselMixed“I ran a 40 lawyer pilot recently and came away impressed. Expected to hate it based on what I read, but the updated platform they rolled out in August is much better.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselValues“The legal knowledge and database of citations and flags with Claude’s reasoning models can't be beat.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 19, 2026CoCounselValues“I use CoCounsel extensively as a corporate associate. It is very good.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselValues“I attended a demo of Westlaw's CoCounsel a few weeks ago and was thoroughly impressed.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“The last time I ran a prompt through cocounsel, its output was that I should consult an attorney.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“It can find cases that answer your question very well. But it can’t understand the significance of anything it finds, making it useless for drafting.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“In my opinion, it’s not enough better than a top tier ChatGPT subscription to be worth paying the price Thompson Reuters is asking.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“It's good - based off Claude - with LN resources (if you've paid and have access to them, of course). It's as perfectly mediocre as you'd expect.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“The partner I’m working with LOVES Cocounsel and I consistently struggle to make it do what I need it to do. Almost always faster to do it myself.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselNeutral“No way to save instructions that I know of.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“From my experience, CoCounsel can reliably analyze facts/input I provide it with general legal concepts, but lacks the capacity to narrowly analyze or apply specific case law.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“I think it’s overpriced for what it does. But that’s based on my free trial a couple of months ago.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“It's pretty good for broadly picking stuff out of there but connected Claude can't see it which is a bummer.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026ClaudeValues“I've reduced understating/overstating significantly through those.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“Just act like it’s a law clerk and know you’re going to have to wade thru some crap to get things professional.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026CoCounselMixed“It's got access to resources but the actual AI of it doesn't seem any better than the other products out there.”open
r/legaltechOct 19, 20262 voices · 2 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Oct 19, 2026ClaudeValues“I’ve been using it as a first pass for initial research, and the citations down to pin cites have been accurate.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 19, 2026ValuesLegal-specific tools like Harvey and Legora suit firm-wide rollout through matter context, prebuilt workflows and client success teams, and cost less overall than building the same on Claude. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawyertalkOct 18, 20262 voices · 2 like · 0 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues“I think they’re amazing and have the potential to save me hundreds of hours on an assignment.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026ValuesAI is great for brainstorming at the start and refining at the end of a project, and lawyers should use it while still doing their own thinking. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltechOct 15, 2026 to Oct 17, 202610 voices · 5 like · 4 dislike
“Harvey is the cryptocurrency of legal tech, it survived on belief, marketing, and FOMO when in essence it’s an LLM wrapper now with a post-trained open source model to make better margins for their insane valuation and funding rounds”
r/legaltech · Oct 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is the cryptocurrency of legal tech, it survived on belief, marketing, and FOMO when in essence it’s an LLM wrapper now with a post-trained open source model to make better margins for their insane valuation and funding rounds”open
r/legaltech · Oct 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Both Harvey and Legora are built on sales team, not product quality.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraCriticizes“At least where I reside, Legora cannot be trusted to do good/accurate research.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraValues“Whilst Legora has its issues, nothing good prompting cannot fix.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026HarveyCriticizesHarvey's benchmark standing does not match the experience in practice, and financial losses may lead it to cut corners. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraValues“Despite my bitching about Legora, it is still a very good tool and at present I can pass on the whole cost to my clients.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026HarveyValues“When you look at the benchmarks, none of the labs most advanced models are close to Harvey for what it does.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026ClaudeValues“It runs on our existing gpt or claude subscriptions we already pay for so it has been alot cheaper than Harvey or Legora.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 15, 2026LegoraMixed“I use Legora and the tool is both helpful, and a useless piece of shit that will get you into trouble and waste far more time than it will save.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 15, 2026ChatGPTValues“Both ChatGPT and Claude are better than Legora and Harvey.”open
r/LawyertalkApr 22, 2026 to Oct 17, 20263 voices · 3 like · 0 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 17, 2026ChatGPTValues“I used ChatGPT to organize my thoughts and key points to demonstrate that I had a case, to speak in attorney language; connect the dots for them.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 22, 2026Westlaw AIValues“Westlaw and Lexis’s AI platforms have hyperlinked footnotes everywhere so you can see where it pulled the information from.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Apr 22, 2026ChatGPTValues“It's an incredibly useful tool in many areas of the law, and life.”open
r/LawyertalkOct 16, 20265 voices · 2 like · 1 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 16, 2026ClaudeNeutralDescribes a setup using Claude Code with a local model so client data stays on firm hardware, and tells lawyers to follow their jurisdiction's confidentiality rules. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 16, 2026ValuesBusiness or enterprise AI accounts with training turned off, written client notice and verification of output meet the reasonable-efforts confidentiality standard, no differently from email and cloud storage. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 16, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Even if the chance of failure is small, I’m not going to give Claude access to original client file.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 16, 2026ClaudeValues“A Claude assistant would be such a game changer.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 16, 2026ClaudeNeutral“I think the ‘enterprise’ level of Claude keeps your information confidential.”open
r/LawFirmOct 6, 2026 to Oct 15, 202614 voices · 8 like · 0 dislike
r/LawFirm · Oct 15, 2026MixedGeneral models like Claude are excellent for drafting and analysis, but specialized tools earn their place on large, messy record sets through OCR, deduplication and page citations. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 13, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe author trains Claude's skills by running the same task in parallel, then giving Claude their own version so it can improve the skill. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 13, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude's raw quality beats the legal-specific tools; the setup is where people stall.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 11, 2026NeutralBefore choosing any legal AI vendor, lawyers should get written answers on training use, data retention, add-on coverage and who can access client data. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 9, 2026ClaudeValues“It's literally a good folder structure and proper markdown files for routing and memory that makes AI able to continuously improve as you use it, and solve the context problem.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 9, 2026ClaudeValues“Hi there, so the AI model/engine running your ai environment really doesn't matter a whole lot, but Claude Opus5.5 is the way to go at the moment (all the top models, open or closed source are pretty good at this point).”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 7, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude is able to find me necessary cases and cite them and argue with them properly.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 7, 2026ValuesThe author switched from Claude to OpenCase for workflow features like in-line citation checking and organized matter documents, saving time from research to first draft while still reviewing everything. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralRunning Claude locally on a PC with active client files lets it access everything quickly without uploads and at little cost. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClioNeutralThe author uses Outlook's AI to edit emails and Clio's Vincent for document review. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeValues“From about opus 4.8 got claude on the level, where in middle of the case it can draft reasonable filing which needs reasonable ammount of editing.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe author wrote a detailed two-page claude.md covering first-page layout and date formats to standardize Claude's drafting. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeValues“Since we use Clio manage for the office agenda we connected MCP server to Claude desktop as extension and it works great.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeValues“We just moved to Claude recently and I bet it’s saving me 5 hours/week of work.”open
r/LawFirmOct 13, 2026 to Oct 15, 20264 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
r/LawFirm · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeMixed“I've found that Haiku and Sonnet do not do as good a job and correcting errors that result from them makes me waste time.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 13, 2026ChatGPTValues“There are some other minor details but that research workflow has proven to be exponentially better than I could ever do and still significantly better than lexis or westlaw AI were ever able to do for me.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 13, 2026CoCounselMixed“Westlaw's CoCounsel will get you in the right zip code but its descriptions of the cases it finds for me are often still incorrect and need to be verified personally.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 13, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes“These companies move too slowly and, since they are subscription based, they have an incentive to use cheap (aka bad) AI models to save on costs.”open
r/LawFirmSep 26, 2025 to Oct 14, 202623 voices · 8 like · 9 dislike
r/LawFirm · Oct 14, 2026ChatGPTMixed“ChatGPT is still miles above it even though it sucks now too.”open
r/LawFirm · Feb 19, 2026ChatGPTValues“Use ChatGPT Pro. It is the slowest, most expensive, and highest quality answer to any question.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 6, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Agree, huge drop off in quality of paid Chat GPT in last few weeks.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 2, 2025ChatGPTMixed“ChatGPT is great for brainstorming and drafting, but when it comes to parsing long, dense legal docs it still makes stuff up if it “thinks” it should be there.”open
r/LawFirm · Oct 1, 2025GeminiCriticizes“Gemini is definitely not accurate. Take any deposition and check the pincites Gemini provides and you will find many inaccuracies.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 29, 2025GeminiValues“It seems like Gemini is currently more reliable for purely "grounded" tasks like summarizing what's right there on the page and nothing more.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025GeminiCriticizes“I did have Gemini lie to me once about a citation, and it fought me even when I said it was hallucinating because the language that it was citing didn't exist in the document.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025GeminiMixed“It's able to find web results that GPT and Claude haven't been able to find, but it will throw off a lot of hallucinations on document analysis, too.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025CopilotNeutral“CoPilot uses Claude (it used to use GPT), so I'm not sure why the speaker would think it's a closed system.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025ClaudeValues“Honestly, I typically bounce around from LLMs, Claude being my preferred but it sometimes feels like on any given day one of them is out performing the other on a specific use case.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 28, 2025ChatGPTValues“ChatCPT is far superior. It's not even close.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025GeminiCriticizes“It’s essentially like google said “if you don’t want to share with us then we aren’t going to let Gemini store, hold or access anything at all.” 👎”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025ChatGPTMixed“It’s not bad if you know all the tips and tricks to keep it on track; like starting a new chat before a major task, giving it clear instructions each time (bc it tends to forget saves prompts).”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Large language models are not reliable .”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025ChatGPTValues“I use ChatGPT successfully to help summarize intakes, create outlines, point me toward the law, give me tactical considerations for generating depo questions, etc.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 27, 2025GeminiValues“Bottom line: make it show receipts; once you require quotes and cites, both models behave much better.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ClaudeValues“I've found Claude to be, by far, the most accurate and least hallucination-prone of any of them.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“I used it again not two weeks ago on another deposition and it was shitty.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Despite the fact that I give it clear and detailed directions it more often than not only partially follows them and it requires multiple attempts to complete assignments to my satisfaction.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ChatGPTMixed“I know for business products, like what we use (api, ChatGPT business and enterprise) there’s stricter privacy control.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025CriticizesSays all LLMs including legal-branded ones hallucinate and that careful prompting and model choice can replicate them, noting GPT-5 was not great. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025CoCounselValues“Duo through Clio and Co-Counsel through Westlaw are two versions that I would rely on more that are vetted for law firm use. Co-Counsel has guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 26, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“I asked it to review and summarize a word document. It was completely wrong.”open
Hacker NewsOct 12, 2026 to Oct 13, 20265 voices · 3 like · 1 dislike
Hacker News · Oct 13, 2026ClaudeMixed“Ai generally only work with what's avoailavle and unless you specifcally ask for it, it wont question it.”open
Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“It sounds egregious, but Anthropic is clearly stating they will use their own judgment to control what people can do with its product, and that they will treat customer data as if it's theirs to disseminate.”open
Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeValues“I tried using Claude first, and even my lawyer was impressed that it found things they missed.”open
Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeValuesHallucination is no longer a major problem in agentic work, and checking whether a case exists or supports an argument looks solvable with research agents, as the author already does daily with Claude. (summary, not a quote)open
Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ValuesGLM-Legal's 20% on Harvey's Legal Agent benchmark is near the top of all models and the best for its price class, well above Opus 5.5's 4%. (summary, not a quote)open
Hacker NewsSep 30, 2026 to Oct 13, 20262 voices · 2 like · 0 dislike
Hacker News · Oct 13, 2026GeminiValues“Considering Opus 5.5 only gets a 4% on the test compared to Gemini’s 20%, that’s actually pretty incredible.”open
Hacker News · Sep 30, 2026GeminiValues“The ~200% improvement over the next nearest competitor on Harvey's Legal Benchmark is astounding.”open
r/biglawOct 10, 2026 to Oct 12, 202612 voices · 5 like · 4 dislike
“That’s a good move. Why not get best of both worlds - use the Claude legal harness/prompts with private LLMs that meet the great Harvey benchmark and have your own AI client - why use someone else’s written agent.”
r/biglaw · Oct 12, 2026HarveyNeutralThe author describes that their firm's Harvey lets users pick the underlying model, and they choose Claude Fable for complex queries even though it is slower. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 12, 2026HarveyCriticizesThe author says Harvey cannot replace the latest Claude and suspects Harvey limits the model's reasoning effort, which bothers them. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 12, 2026HarveyCriticizesThe author thinks Harvey's features can be replicated and configured more flexibly with your own LLM, and says the Harvey browser becomes slow and glitchy after about a hundred prompts. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeValues“That’s a good move. Why not get best of both worlds - use the Claude legal harness/prompts with private LLMs that meet the great Harvey benchmark and have your own AI client - why use someone else’s written agent.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026HarveyCriticizesHears his firm may leave Harvey for frontier labs, calling Harvey a low-effort Kimi wrapper, and asks how that works in practice. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is absolute dog shit. I don’t know how you can get a frontier model and fuck it up the way they have.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026ClaudeValues“Harvey just isn’t as smart as the latest max reasoning Claude and that matters in a profession where even 1 mistake is too many”open
r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026HarveyNeutral“It seems like Harvey et al are middlemen between end users and the actual frontier models.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026ClaudeNeutral“There are Projects within Claude (like Harvey Vaults) and you can point it at DMS/Desksite if those connectors are enabled”open
r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026HarveyValues“I’m a big Claude user at home, but can’t really imagine how it would replace Harvey if I had Claude at work (which I don’t).”open
r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026ClaudeValuesThe author finds enterprise Claude with connectors amazing across Harvey, Outlook, Word and the document management system, and uses ChatGPT and Gemini to cross-check it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026ClaudeValues“I stopped using Harvey since - to your point - the biggest benefit is I can pick my reasoning level.”open
Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude came up with a very useful answer in ~10min — they were quite impressed.”open
Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026MixedLLMs have not produced arguments more persuasive than good lawyers; accuracy matters more than speed, AI malpractice risk higher. (summary, not a quote)open
Hacker News · Oct 12, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I'm still not convinced they are actually saving me time -- just too many errors, too confidently stated, and I have to re-do all the research myself.”open
r/legaltechOct 6, 2026 to Oct 11, 202618 voices · 5 like · 5 dislike
r/legaltech · Oct 11, 2026CriticizesVendor documentation shows web search queries and EU data residency fall outside the no-training and DPA protections for Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 9, 2026NeutralConsumer and business plans from OpenAI and Anthropic differ in data protection, yet none creates privilege and only enterprise API use gives zero retention. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 8, 2026ChatGPTValues“The contract is no different from them using any other tool out there.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 7, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“A pivileged convo can get read by someone with zero duty to your client and you'll never know which is the risk to deal with.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 7, 2026NeutralClient data can be redacted with a small local model before it goes to Claude or ChatGPT, though open-source local models perform worse than closed ones. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 7, 2026ClaudeValuesLawyers should use the Claude Teams plan even as a solo practitioner and avoid putting protected third-party litigation data into lower tiers. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“GPT will always spot something that Claude has got wrong or missed, and visa versa”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026CopilotCriticizes“Copilot is deceptively expensive, especially Cowork”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026HarveyNeutral“I think a big part of Harvey and Legora’s moat is trust by association.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026MixedNo-training settings on mid-tier plans are a good first step, but privilege protection depends on contractual terms covering retention, provider review access and admin controls. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe firm uses an Enterprise Claude plan installed locally with training disabled, avoids ChatGPT, and never enters confidential client data. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTValues“I personally see that as overkill given how much data attorneys regularly entrust to digital providers without that same standard.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“It's only the pure consumer level plans that require opt-out instead of defaulting to it.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTValues“Both of these services default to not training on any of your chats or data rather than requiring you to opt out. So quite affordable.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ChatGPTValues“Both of these services default to not training on any of your chats or data rather than requiring you to opt out. So quite affordable.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutralEnterprise Claude would be an approved tool while personal Claude or ChatGPT accounts would not be. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeNeutral“This ruling says nothing about attorneys using AI and confidential information, it just confirms that AI tools are just as valid for search by authorities as is google, facebook, or any other digital tool on your machine.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 6, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Even the paid Claude AI consumer plans do not contain a confidentiality rider.”open
r/biglawOct 9, 2026 to Oct 11, 20266 voices · 3 like · 3 dislike
r/biglaw · Oct 11, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“It’s CoCounsel that is downright alarming to me with how much it hallucinates.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 10, 2026ClaudeValues“I’ve seen the numbers and the AI tooling has paid for itself many times over vs legacy legal spend.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 9, 2026ClaudeValuesAs in-house counsel, finds that tailoring projects in Claude has removed most need to send business-specific legal work to large outside firms, whose results were weaker. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 9, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude is better than a junior associate at all non-human interaction legal tasks now.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 9, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Hard to see how that is really worth the cost savings of just having us do it right form the start.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 9, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes“It produces some great work product if you don't mind that how confidently wrong it is 50% of the time.”open
Lemmy · lemmy.worldOct 1, 2026 to Oct 11, 20262 voices · 0 like · 2 dislike
lemmy.world · Oct 11, 2026ChatGPTCriticizesA lawyer used ChatGPT for briefs containing fabricated witnesses and testimony in a murder appeal, resulting in contempt order. (summary, not a quote)open
lemmy.world · Oct 1, 2026ChatGPTCriticizesA lawyer's ChatGPT-generated brief included wholly fabricated witnesses and testimony; New Mexico Supreme Court held him in direct contempt. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltechSep 14, 2026 to Oct 10, 202612 voices · 6 like · 4 dislike
“Harvey probably has even more of a moat because of confidentiality issues with most AI products, you might need to disclose to opposing counsel or the court which tool you are using, and Harvey is the one least likely to cause a problem because most of biglaw uses it.”
r/legaltech · Oct 10, 2026ValuesThe author's own command-line code on the same foundation LLM matches or beats Harvey and Legora prompts for general contract review, so output quality, ease of use and price are not the barrier. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 9, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey probably has even more of a moat because of confidentiality issues with most AI products, you might need to disclose to opposing counsel or the court which tool you are using, and Harvey is the one least likely to cause a problem because most of biglaw uses it.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 21, 2026ClaudeMixed“Claude has degraded to the point where it is actually useless. It cannot follow instructions, it cannot see the big picture, and it is a terrible writer.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 17, 2026LegoraCriticizes“I can't stand the card-based Word Add In interface.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I doubt it's blatant but they'll be using something- your prompts, telemetry, an AI summary of your usage- all technically not your data.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026LegoraCriticizes“Based on all of our conversations, they don't have a meaningful edge on any of those.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026CoCounselValues“CoCounsel 1.0 and 2.0 sucked. CoCounsel 3.0 is much much better.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026HarveyMixed“Midtier AI comfortable users found Harvey interesting and potentially useful and I am considering getting them subscriptions to use what is basically a wrapper.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“Lexis has proprietary content, Shepard, and decades of embedded distribution. That’s an actual moat independent of WL.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I personally think legora and Harvey prove that we are in a bubble. Literally gpt wrappers.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 14, 2026LegoraValues“As a question of motive yes, possibly, but Harvey and Legora are using the frontier models under the hood anyway and if you pay the frontier labs for a contract they will agree not to train on your data.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 14, 2026ChatGPTValues“The enterprise/business plan of a frontier model, particularly Claude or ChatGPT, is much better.”open
r/legaltechSep 17, 2026 to Oct 9, 20263 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
“I do think it’s a decent product if you have funds to burn but cheaper alternatives do almost the same thing.”
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r/legaltech · Oct 9, 2026Mixed“I do think it’s a decent product if you have funds to burn but cheaper alternatives do almost the same thing.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026Values“I've also been using Spellbook on cease & desist demands and other regulatory adversarial correspondence, and it's been helpful.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 17, 2026Criticizes“I was unimpressed by it and my firm wasn't interested”open
r/legaltechSep 20, 2026 to Oct 8, 202618 voices · 5 like · 5 dislike
r/legaltech · Oct 8, 2026ClaudeValues“I actually set this up, it works as advertised. Cost is a wash, you can set it up in a day w/ AWS provided scripts and you own 100% of all data.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 26, 2026CriticizesFinds AWS Bedrock one of the hardest and most expensive providers to work with, citing confusing endpoints, difficult access to newer models and a support assistant that gave wrong answers, and warns that cheap AI packages are subsidized by training on user data. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 24, 2026CriticizesPrivacy settings at Anthropic and OpenAI are only software toggles, so a Bedrock deployment with contractual no-retention terms is preferable. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 22, 2026GeminiNeutral“G-cloud vertex ai. Their Gemini model is okay.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 21, 2026NeutralSuggests running models through a cloud provider such as AWS because it gives access to several model families, while Anthropic's enterprise plan covers only Anthropic models. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 21, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude Platform allow using API or UI and you have ZDR.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 21, 2026NeutralExplains that models hosted in the cloud provider's data center can have inputs and outputs wiped after processing. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ChatGPTValues“Each time I read one of these threads I’m hoping someone will identify the distinction, but nobody ever does.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“The AI provider does have the right and ability to review your non zdr data under certain conditions.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026CriticizesStorage in the cloud is not the issue; the concern is whether AI providers can use client content for their own model development. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude Teams does not offer ZDR https://code.claude.com/docs/en/zero-data-retention”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Well yeah that’s why we use Claude Team. We could pay Enterprise but it would roughly 10x our AI spend”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ClaudeValues“That’s precisely why I’m comfortable with Claude Team and not Enterprise. Too expensive for marginal security improvements.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“You’ve given a third party access to client confidential information - and it’s potentially subject to subpoena or legal hold.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“Standard licensing on business version still has 30 day retention and OpenAI can technically - and does on occasion - review your data (they are liking for illegal stuff like content related to cp or violent activity).”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ClaudeValues“I am aware of literally dozens (conservative number) of firms using Claude Team as their AI of choice.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ClaudeMixed“Claude is easy, but Opus and Fable specifically are a little more difficult and required some additional requirements and approvals to data retention policies (going against OP's claim that you have full control over it).”open
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026ClaudeValues“Either Claude Enterprise or Claude Team directly have exactly the same relevant protections.”open
r/paralegalSep 28, 2026 to Oct 3, 20264 voices · 2 like · 1 dislike
“Use Clio as your core CMS and Clio Work for quick admin tasks (summarizing phone notes, status drafting), but look at specialized tools for heavy medical extractions and full demand generation.”
r/paralegal · Oct 3, 2026ClioValuesLikes Clio as a law firm platform and is promoting it at work, but has not used its AI features. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioMixed“Use Clio as your core CMS and Clio Work for quick admin tasks (summarizing phone notes, status drafting), but look at specialized tools for heavy medical extractions and full demand generation.”open
r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioCriticizes“I had one case where my client was injured in a not so common area but Clio ignored it.”open
r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioValues“I’ve been learning and working with Clio Manage, and I’ve found it particularly useful for keeping matters, tasks, documents, contacts, and deadlines organized in one place.”open
r/biglawOct 1, 2026 to Oct 2, 20267 voices · 2 like · 2 dislike
r/biglaw · Oct 2, 2026ClaudeValues“If you use Claude, running Opus 5.5 or Fable on Extra Effort, it genuinely could replace a lot of attorneys.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 2, 2026CoCounselMixed“Westlaw CoCounsel is really good when there’s a clear answer to a question.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 2, 2026HarveyMixed“Harvey and WestLaw’s AI (and parallel search) are the most useful imo but like I said that doesn’t mean they are good.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 2, 2026LegoraCriticizes“Legora is great if you want to feel really confident about something (but get it wrong anyways).”open
r/biglaw · Oct 2, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey should *never* be used for research.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 1, 2026HarveyMixed“I say Harvey gets the first 20% of the work done.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 1, 2026Westlaw AIValues“Stuff I would give a 1-3 year associate and expect them to spend 6-8 hours on, I give to westlaw and it gives me a better work product than an associate would in 10 minutes.”open
r/LawyertalkOct 1, 20262 voices · 2 like · 0 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 1, 2026ChatGPTValues“I've got my Claude and ChatGPT both trained to tell me "Nope, there's nothing" when there's nothing there.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 1, 2026ClaudeValues“It takes the client's AI-generated garbage apart in about 5 minutes and drafts a response explaining why the fringe legal theory their AI found on a random blog doesn't actually mean they have a strong claim.”open
r/LawFirmSep 30, 20262 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
“There are some AI chat bots that make strong claims about privacy, like Venice, but ChatGPT and Claude don't (as far as I know) and I honestly wouldn't use any of them.”
r/LawFirm · Sep 30, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“There are some AI chat bots that make strong claims about privacy, like Venice, but ChatGPT and Claude don't (as far as I know) and I honestly wouldn't use any of them.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 30, 2026ClaudeValues“The thing I like about it is that it's just an assistant, I mean the main job is still in the hands of the lawyer which is an expert more than AI could ever be.”open
r/legaltechSep 30, 20262 voices · 0 like · 1 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 30, 2026ClaudeNeutral“A Team or Pro "do not train" UI setting is not the same as Enterprise or Zero Data Retention (ZDR) contract terms.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 30, 2026CriticizesModel companies keep using data for training, so private AI behind existing tools like ChatGPT and Claude is the right fix, though it costs a lot. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltechSep 23, 2026 to Sep 29, 20267 voices · 6 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 29, 2026ClaudeValues“I created a software for my girlfriend (she is a lawyer) without spending anything (apart from my 20$/month Claude subscription).”open
r/legaltech · Sep 24, 2026Values“Spellbook is probably the strongest fit, but not sure the price will be in the $200 range.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues“Most legal products use the same frontier models. The key to getting the most from Claude or ChatGPT is context and prompt enginerring, which is what lawyers like me bring to the table.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues“Vanilla Claude and ChatGPT may be good enough.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues“The model layer tooling. Whether Claude for legal, Astra for Law etc. are really good.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026MixedSuggests an open-source tool or Spellbook for a small budget but warns that low-quality AI output in legal work is still very risky. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawyertalkSep 28, 2026 to Sep 29, 20266 voices · 2 like · 3 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 29, 2026ChatGPTValues“Westlaw is free for pro se (i.e. via most public libraries), and ChatGPT computer/browser use can use KeyCite flawlessly.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 29, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I have received 3 calls asking for representation in the last 2 days bc ChatGPT told them there was a high chance of them going to prison based on what they put in.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 28, 2026ChatGPTCriticizesSays ChatGPT gives wrong answers without pushback, wastes attorney time, strains client relationships and risks confidentiality breaches and discoverable material. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 28, 2026ChatGPTValues“I use ChatGPT all the time as it's incredibly helpful.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 28, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Now it’s ChatGPT instead of Mervis’s sister’s neighbor’s cousin, and both have about the same amount of knowledge and insight.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 28, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“I’m pretty sure legal at ChatGPT added a disclaimer that says it’s not giving legal or medical advice (content dependent).”open
r/biglawSep 28, 2026 to Sep 29, 20262 voices · 0 like · 1 dislike
r/biglaw · Sep 29, 2026NeutralThe author says Legora and Harvey are wrappers that run on different underlying models, so comparing them with ChatGPT or Gemini is not like for like. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Sep 28, 2026LegoraCriticizes“I used to have both Legora and Chat—always found Legora to be pretty shitty.”open
Hacker News · Sep 28, 2026ChatGPTValues“ChatGPT is more than capable of telling you where to tap, but you can't sue openAI if it gets it wrong and your water heater explodes.”open
Hacker News · Sep 28, 2026ClaudeValues“The intern's work was mostly stuff claude would have chewed through in seconds at higher quality.”open
r/legaltechSep 24, 2026 to Sep 26, 20262 voices · 0 like · 1 dislike
“Lexis's AI is crap. When a lexis rep told me that it'd be more than a quarter of a million dollars per year to have a lexis MCP hooked into our local AI, that's when I decided to do this.”
r/legaltech · Sep 26, 2026MixedMCP plugins that check citations reduce hallucination, but AI tools cannot be fully trusted to follow instructions. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 24, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“Lexis's AI is crap. When a lexis rep told me that it'd be more than a quarter of a million dollars per year to have a lexis MCP hooked into our local AI, that's when I decided to do this.”open
r/LawyertalkSep 25, 2026 to Sep 26, 20262 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 26, 2026ChatGPTCriticizesWarns against running drafts through a public ChatGPT license because of privilege questions, possible disclosure to third parties and likely protective order violations. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 25, 2026ChatGPTValues“They're great at this.”open
r/LawyertalkSep 25, 20262 voices · 1 like · 0 dislike
“It’s because next generation Co-Counsel was released, which is built on the Claude SDK (Software Development Kit) and it’s agentic by nature and uses Opus-class models.”
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 25, 2026CoCounselNeutral“It’s because next generation Co-Counsel was released, which is built on the Claude SDK (Software Development Kit) and it’s agentic by nature and uses Opus-class models.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 25, 2026CoCounselValues“AI analysis and drafting were garbage for a long time until suddenly.. they were not.”open
r/legaltechSep 24, 20262 voices · 2 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 24, 2026ClaudeValues“The Claude MCP connector has been a game changer too”open
r/legaltech · Sep 24, 2026ValuesPraises Everlaw's AI features and its Claude and ChatGPT connectors, but questions why Deep Dive costs extra when the connectors are included. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltechSep 22, 2026 to Sep 23, 20267 voices · 4 like · 1 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeNeutral“The question is more whether there are customer agreements / DPAs that limit what we ingest, and it's smth that needs to be checked case-by-case.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues“Avec un plan team au moins on a un dpa avec anthropic, ce qui est déjà mieux pour les données perso :)”open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues“I personally like running it the way described, but haven't used Cowork in a while (and it keeps changing, so need to give it a spin).”open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“The data goes back to the mothership (Anthropic) for every little detail.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues“That’s for coding. Same as codex. Use Claude Cowork.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 22, 2026ClaudeValues“Made a switch and nowadays I do most of my work from VS Code (a tool intended for developers) with my own legal workspace I built around it.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 22, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe author, a plaintiff, says they use Claude Code and Codex to prepare for their case and wants to see the other person's workflow. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirmSep 22, 2026 to Sep 23, 20263 voices · 0 like · 0 dislike
“Clio only auto-files when the client’s email address matches a single matter and/or the matter name (e.g., 0000-NAME) appears in the email’s subject line or body.”
r/LawFirm · Sep 23, 2026ClioNeutral“Clio only auto-files when the client’s email address matches a single matter and/or the matter name (e.g., 0000-NAME) appears in the email’s subject line or body.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 23, 2026ClioNeutral“Automated filing is useful only if false positives are easy to catch and undo.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 22, 2026ClioMixed“It's the kind of thing Clio should have been doing 10 years ago.”open
r/legaltechSep 23, 20263 voices · 3 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ValuesA multi-stage citation validation process, with CoCounsel as the costly final check, catches miscites in opposing briefs and strengthens their own filings, and they see no need for Harvey. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026CoCounselValues“About 99.5% of the time, the citations are absolutely perfect, which is better than the rate of human error.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 23, 2026ClaudeValues“GPT-6 Astra didn't find the right case, but it didn't hallucinate any either. Anthropic models were better at finding the right case.”open
r/LawFirmFeb 13, 2024 to Sep 22, 20265 voices · 4 like · 0 dislike
r/LawFirm · Sep 22, 2026ValuesUses ChatGPT for casual drafting but prefers matter-aware tools like Referent with lawyer review over dumping client info into generic chat. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Feb 13, 2024ChatGPTMixed“ChatGPT is fine with statutes and local law with proper cite checks.”open
r/LawFirm · Feb 13, 2024PerplexityValues“Perplexity seems to be the best for CA code questions.”open
r/LawFirm · Feb 13, 2024Values“It’s actually quite good for contract drafting if you already have a template to start from.”open
r/LawFirm · Feb 13, 2024ChatGPTValues“Not for legal research but very helpful for contract drafting when you know the clause you need but don't want to go searching through your precedents for the specific wording.”open
r/legaltechSep 22, 20262 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
“For most firms replicating these will be multiple FTEs of technologists and significant amounts of lawyer time. That is likely more than the Legora/Harvey subscription.”
r/legaltech · Sep 22, 2026HarveyValues“For most firms replicating these will be multiple FTEs of technologists and significant amounts of lawyer time. That is likely more than the Legora/Harvey subscription.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 22, 2026HarveyCriticizes“If you rely on ESEH, dont be surprised one day soon if you get a large price increase or if they just close due to non-profitability.”open
r/legaltechSep 19, 2026 to Sep 21, 20264 voices · 1 like · 2 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 21, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Dumping full client files into ChatGPT is where firms get burned.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“The issue is when the information is entrusted to a party under no obligation to keep it confidential. So the use of plain old ChatGPT is problematic.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026ClaudeValues“Best bang for your buck for most lawyers is opus and you only ever use it to run adversarial critiques on things you draft.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026ClaudeNeutralLawyers should use AI only on commercial terms such as Teams, Enterprise or an API key, not consumer plans, including Claude Max, because of confidentiality. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirmSep 21, 20263 voices · 1 like · 0 dislike
“The firm rule you already have is the right floor: written no-train and confidential handling before any client data goes in. Protege Enterprise can meet that bar on paper.”
r/LawFirm · Sep 21, 2026Lexis+ AINeutral“The firm rule you already have is the right floor: written no-train and confidential handling before any client data goes in. Protege Enterprise can meet that bar on paper.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 21, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“If you’re ok with those then it’s silly to be concerned with lexis.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 21, 2026Lexis+ AINeutral“If your practice group cant name those four things, Protege is still a trust exercise.”open
r/legaltechSep 19, 2026 to Sep 20, 20264 voices · 3 like · 1 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 20, 2026Values“No connection to the company - its just the best standalone AI product I've found in all that I've tested.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026Criticizes“Out of say, 30 comments it had in analyzing an agreement, most seemed like noise (possibly technically valid, but not helpful) and one or two were interesting and useful but far from being worth the fee.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026Values“Fantastic at transactional playbooks, compare to market, create new drafts, etc.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 19, 2026ChatGPTValues“Small open source models and chatgpt pro can do it (depending on your repository size.) I built a small tool that does it for my firm.”open
Hacker NewsSep 17, 2026 to Sep 18, 202611 voices · 5 like · 3 dislike
“Since this is a thread about using ChatGPT for law, I should note that this is actually one of the most important reasons you'd rather hire a lawyer than ChatGPT to represent you.”
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ClaudeValuesRecommends cross-checking legal documents across multiple models (Claude review, GPT drafting, Gemini, Copilot) and still having a real lawyer verify. (summary, not a quote)open
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Since this is a thread about using ChatGPT for law, I should note that this is actually one of the most important reasons you'd rather hire a lawyer than ChatGPT to represent you.”open
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026LegoraCriticizes“We also tried Legora's tabular review, there were also numerous halucinated provisions in our due diligence exercise.”open
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ValuesHaving several AI models critique each other's work has raised output from a high-school intern to a second-year lawyer in a year, though it still does not match experts, and AI will increase litigation volume rather than replace lawyers. (summary, not a quote)open
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I find that when I feed contracts to ChatGPT (which I do all the time) it will try to find 50 things wrong with it.”open
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026LegoraValues“Switching from ChatGPT Enterprise to Legora at my firm was a godsend.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeValues“The work still must be reviewed by an attorney - Claude is nowhere near making the kinds of judgments a lawyer would make about this content - but it has increased their throughput from 2-3 documents an hour to 8-10 documents an hour by killing the busy work.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ChatGPTValues“If both parties use ChatGPT to find the relevant laws or read contracts, they could come to an agreement without expensive legal fees.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed“It's good for research and data organization, but terrible for drafting.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed“In other cases/situations, I’ve tried just giving a model access to all the docs and saying “write a brief arguing X,” but it’s always terrible at this.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026NeutralNotes that Astra for Law scores slightly below Claude and Muse on a legal research benchmark, without praising or criticizing it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirmSep 14, 2026 to Sep 18, 20265 voices · 3 like · 0 dislike
r/LawFirm · Sep 18, 2026ClaudeMixed“The thing people miss is that the output arrives with markdown formatting that fights Word styles.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 15, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude and other AI tools may leave detectable traces, either in the file metadata or in the writing itself.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 14, 2026ClaudeValues“For what it is worth, Claude can produce redlined Word documents. You don't have to do that in Word.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 14, 2026ClaudeValues“You can just tell Claude to output the result as an edit tracked word doc with the author set to X (e.g., you).”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 14, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude is better for me when I'm still figuring out the argument or working across several documents, then Word takes over once I'm at the point where another lawyer needs to review what I did.”open
r/legaltechSep 15, 2026 to Sep 18, 20264 voices · 2 like · 1 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 18, 2026HarveyMixedHarvey is useful but costs more than all the other technology a lawyer needed before it, so it must be really good. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 18, 2026HarveyValues“I’d argue that Harvey is doing far more than “help you be a little bit more efficient “ at least for corporate transactional work.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 18, 2026HarveyCriticizesHarvey or Legora subscriptions cost more per lawyer than all other firm software combined for an unspecified efficiency gain. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026HarveyValues“One of the things that struck us in the Harvey demos was that within 10 minutes they were actively in tools designed to complete specific, common, lengthy tasks that every lawyer in the audience did.”open
r/legaltechSep 17, 2026 to Sep 18, 20263 voices · 2 like · 1 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 18, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“Yeah, your points are why I will likely just to stick with Protege and stick with it so we shift liability and increased support.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 18, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“I think there’s also a comfort level because Lexis notes what is a hit from their database. This would ideally cut the risk of hallucinations.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I am struggling to see what long proposition these companies are offering to clients for what the cost will likely be.”open
r/legaltechSep 17, 2026 to Sep 18, 20262 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
“The benchmarks are unfortunately rigged, where GPT models are put in low thinking mode with the results, so that TR & Harvey's proprietary LLMs look better.”
r/legaltech · Sep 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The benchmarks are unfortunately rigged, where GPT models are put in low thinking mode with the results, so that TR & Harvey's proprietary LLMs look better.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 17, 2026Westlaw AIValues“The results aren't even close: 0.83 factuality on deep research versus 0.65-0.68 for the generalists. That's a really impressive number!”open
r/LawyertalkSep 16, 2026 to Sep 17, 20267 voices · 2 like · 1 dislike
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 17, 2026ClioCriticizes“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.”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
r/biglawSep 15, 2026 to Sep 16, 20262 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
r/biglaw · Sep 16, 2026HarveyValues“As a first year, this has massively improved my efficiency for finding precedent.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 15, 2026CriticizesThe author dismisses the tool as a thin ChatGPT wrapper that cannot read image-based documents unless they are uploaded separately. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirmSep 15, 20266 voices · 4 like · 1 dislike
r/LawFirm · Sep 15, 2026ClaudeNeutral“What you need to know is the inputs and outputs “may” live on a separate server for up to 30 days.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 15, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I have yet to see any credible legal tech professional say that uploaded private health PI to claude or other llms is a good idea.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 15, 2026ClaudeValues“For day to day, Claude is my go-to and its connected to my email, Slack, Lovable, and more.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 15, 2026ValuesA lawyer runs an on-premises AI setup that mimics Harvey, keeps all client data in the office, and finds local models good enough. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Sep 15, 2026ClaudeValues“Anthropic and other frontier providers are better than your email server, such as your CMS like Clio, or just about everything else you use.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 15, 2026ClaudeValues“The default Claude is the best writing style, imho.”open
r/biglawSep 11, 2026 to Sep 14, 202618 voices · 8 like · 5 dislike
r/biglaw · Sep 14, 2026HarveyNeutral“It's not an original product in the truest sense, but it is marketed very well.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026PerplexityValues“It saves so much time and finds cases others have not.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026LegoraCriticizes“Harvey and ChatGPT enterprise offer the exact same controls regarding model training. Legora offers WORSE than chatgpt enterprise.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Try asking Harvey to create a PowerPoint. But Claude can do it just fine.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“If you’re using Harvey, you’re being duped.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 12, 2026Westlaw AIValuesWestlaw has the better research tool, so Harvey should not be used for legal research. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026ChatGPTValues“ChatGPT, a more general tool available at modest prices, seems to do as good a job for that as Harvey, which is supposedly a more sophisticated product for legal professionals and is of course way more costly.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey is just a wrapper for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. You can literally choose which to use.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyNeutralHarvey is just a wrapper around other models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026Westlaw AIValuesWestlaw AI is less likely to invent cases than ChatGPT or Harvey, which can hallucinate, so firms prefer it for research. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026ChatGPTValues“I haven’t used Harvey, but I’ve used the Westlaw CoCounsel AI and it is embarrassing how much better ChatGPT is at legal research.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey runs ChatGPT under the hood (along with Claude), so they are somewhat derivative.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026CriticizesChatGPT and Harvey only cover officially published sources, so firms allow research only with legal publishers' own AI tools that cover the full body of law and commentary. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026ChatGPTMixed“ChatGPT is solid in terms of putting out coherent and largely accurate answers to research questions, but I've found that I can't trust any of its actual case cites”open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is no real value add. I don’t know how the hell it’s valued so high when the product can be replicated so easily.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyValues“I find that the databases these parties (Harvey and Legora alike) created of publicly available legal sources (legislation, guidance and case law to the extent published without paywall) are outperforming the training data or web searches every single time.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey can be privileged, and not use the docs you upload and questions you ask about the case to train the model.”open
r/biglaw · Sep 11, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey doesn't do that quite as much and will pick up on a lot more nuance.”open
r/LawyertalkDec 14, 2025 to Sep 14, 202615 voices · 8 like · 2 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 14, 2026NeutralRecommends adding the Midpage legal research database to general AI assistants for daily-updated state and federal coverage with citator treatments. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 24, 2026ChatGPTValues“I have found that it saves me time, even if it is just preparing calendar entries or scheduling orders.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 24, 2026ChatGPTValues“It is plainly not a replacement for good legal thinking, but it is a time-saver.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 20, 2026MixedNo AI tool should be trusted for case citations without verification, but AI is useful as a research assistant for issue spotting, search queries and outlines. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 16, 2026ValuesCross-checking one AI against others (Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude) yields reliable pro se filings, which helped the author obtain a conditional mandamus. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 16, 2026ValuesCross-checking one AI against others (Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude) yields reliable pro se filings, which helped the author obtain a conditional mandamus. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 7, 2026ChatGPTValues“I have found that ChatGPT Plus is fantastic for certain things.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jan 5, 2026ValuesNo single AI tool does everything; ChatGPT is fine for first drafts but citations need care, and AI should assist rather than be relied on blindly. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Dec 15, 2025MixedWestlaw, Lexis and vLex-style tools that cite and link sources beat general LLMs for legal research because hallucinated citations remain a problem, though ChatGPT is fine for brainstorming. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Dec 15, 2025ValuesTools like Spellbook and CoCounsel can save time turning research into work product, but final citations must always be confirmed independently. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Dec 15, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Sure, it can give you information that may or may not be correct, but I would very, very much recommend you do your job and *do the research* rather than asking ChatGPT.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Dec 14, 2025Westlaw AIValues“To me, based on my trial, westlaws is a useful tool. It provides a useful and valuable service.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Dec 14, 2025GeminiMixed“If I were a lawyer I'd be accessing the paid legal sites not GPT or Gemini.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Dec 14, 2025Westlaw AICriticizes“I just don't see the value, it can create some surface level work product but falls so far flat of even just basic associate work product”open
r/Lawyertalk · Dec 14, 2025ChatGPTMixed“While they are often flat out wrong I gotta say they are super useful if only for framing the issue and analysis.”open
r/LawFirmSep 8, 2026 to Sep 13, 20267 voices · 3 like · 1 dislike
r/LawFirm · Sep 13, 2026ClaudeValues“After about 3 evenings, I’ve built a demo system that my partners think is better than Clio.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 9, 2026ClioMixed“Clio is decent for now, but in my experience, its AI features are pure trash.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ClioMixed“Overall it’s not worth the cost but is adequate for research if you don’t have another platform.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ClaudeValues“For Ai, get Claude Teams, its the only Ai product with the legal guardrails built in after deploy and config.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ClaudeValues“We are using a great case management system that is targeted for PI lawyers. It is a built out wrapper based on Claude.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ClioCriticizes“It's expensive and barely has any features on top of Hubspot.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ClioMixed“Clio's AI is also subpar. Clio has a very good core product, Clio Manage.”open
r/LawFirmSep 12, 2026 to Sep 13, 20263 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
r/LawFirm · Sep 13, 2026ClaudeMixed“In-house solutions using Anthropic or a mix of other AIs are worth it and can be useful to a firm.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 13, 2026ClaudeValues“You'll have smaller context windows, but you can do most of what Harvey does with a Claude account with the requisite data processing/confidentiality agreements so you can upload your client data.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Nobody actually uses Harvey in earnest. It’s just a way for big firms to look forward thinking.”open
r/paralegalSep 13, 20262 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
“I recognize the operative term is yet, but ChatGPT and Claude still make so many mistakes even on their most advanced levels because they don’t have actual judgment.”
r/paralegal · Sep 13, 2026ValuesSays the AI software law firms are buying is far more advanced than ChatGPT or Claude. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Sep 13, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I recognize the operative term is yet, but ChatGPT and Claude still make so many mistakes even on their most advanced levels because they don’t have actual judgment.”open
r/LawyertalkSep 12, 20266 voices · 2 like · 2 dislike
“I've definitely had to do this for tech start-up CEOs and literally have ChatGPT, Claude, etc. admit to them why they initially dispensed completely wrong previous advice/analysis.”
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 12, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I've definitely had to do this for tech start-up CEOs and literally have ChatGPT, Claude, etc. admit to them why they initially dispensed completely wrong previous advice/analysis.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 12, 2026CoCounselMixed“CoCounsel is very useful for finding caselaw. For assessing the significance of that caselaw, not so much.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 12, 2026CoCounselValues“It makes my reports better, provides a different perspective in my cases, and finds case law I haven’t been able to find.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 12, 2026ChatGPTValues“Chatgpt is getting very good these days, it’s mostly correct if you ask it to provide a few basic leading cases on a legal issue”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 12, 2026MixedSays AI tools can be useful but have quickly diminishing returns, and other skills matter far more to being an effective lawyer. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 12, 2026ChatGPTCriticizesMocks the idea of using ChatGPT for legal work as inappropriate. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirmSep 7, 2026 to Sep 9, 202614 voices · 5 like · 7 dislike
r/LawFirm · Sep 9, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“ChatGPT Business is not the same as Enterprise or API access with a written zero-retention commitment.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 9, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Understand your goal here, but connecting a third party tool directly to your entire live inbox creates a genuine ethical risk that goes beyond standard cloud storage.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026CriticizesA legal-AI founder says a mailbox connector cannot distinguish signed clients from prospects or opposing counsel, so access should be limited to match engagement-agreement consent. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ChatGPTMixed“The enterprise level tools for both ChatGPT and Claude have greater controls including zero-day knowledge.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Full ChatGPT Business hooked to the live inbox is the thing that makes people nervous for a reason.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Whole-mailbox connect on a Business plan is what gets people made an example of.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ChatGPTValues“All paid business plans mean your data is not used for training.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ChatGPTValues“Attorneys are absolutely free to use non-enterprise ChatGPT.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ChatGPTValues“They're not supposed to, that's all and that's enough. Same as ChatGPT.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“Those using Enterprise level accounts or a secure API with ChatGPT were protected because they offer zero day knowledge.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 8, 2026ChatGPTValues“Peoole saying ChatGPT can be subpoenaed also delusional. GMail, CRM and recordings from meetings can be subpoenaed just as same.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 7, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Chats on those lower level accounts can be subpoenaed and actually were during the lawsuit with the NYT, including the Business accounts (then called Teams).”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 7, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“On most of the basic plans (even the $20-30/mo ones), OpenAI and all still have access to everything in your chat history for like 30 days, even if you delete it.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 7, 2026ClaudeValues“Everything is getting AI automated. And to be honest, it helps reduce cost and effort and increases quality (reduced number of mistakes)”open
r/legaltechAug 30, 2026 to Sep 6, 202620 voices · 10 like · 5 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 6, 2026CriticizesClient work should go through accounts under a business agreement, and personal-plan desktop apps raise a confidentiality problem the lawyer must own. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 3, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude's desktop app wins for us mainly on local file and folder handling.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 3, 2026ChatGPTValues“The formatting issue you noticed is actually pretty common because specialized legal wrappers often butcher Word document structure when converting file outputs, whereas ChatGPT handles native document rendering cleaner.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 2, 2026ValuesA litigator built a custom agent on Claude and GPT that drafted an appellate brief accepted by the clerk and outperforms the desktop apps. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 2, 2026ClaudeMixed“I gave the same example to Claude, and its PowerPoint looked almost exactly like the example, almost perfect visually, but it basically just lifted the text from the mediation brief verbatim.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 2, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“The context and the prompt drive the results far more than any differences between the models themselves.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“Regarding ChatGPT vs. Claude - for me Claude brings back much better results while Chat acts a bit like a clueless intern.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Yikes... I wouldn't go with "I think so," if you are dumping deposition transcript and other client sensitive information into ChatGPT.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026ClaudeMixed“Claude is notarious for hitting usage limits, for sure. I like it's writing style better though.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyMixed“Harvey-class tools rarely win on raw paragraph quality alone.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026NeutralA general LLM can handle a document vault and allows one corporate-level agreement, and data management choices are a matter for the IT department. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude Code can do everything the desktop version can do, but is easier to add skills, give access to an API, and build out exactly what I want.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizesFinds the personality given to Claude often annoying and off-putting. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyValues“One good aspect of Harvey is the ability to dump a ton of documents in a vault, but you can get the same effect by connecting GPT to a drive of some sort (Google/SharePoint).”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ChatGPTValues“I haven't tried Harvey but have been extensively testing Claude and Chat GPT (enterprise versions) since late last year and I agree about Chat GPT - to my surprise.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Something like Harvey is little more than a wrapper around Claude or GTP so far as I can tell.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues“Fable 5 turned out better and more thorough work than chatgpt's latest and greatest.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I hit usage limits with Claude Fable 5 sometimes, but I can use GPT on 5.6 with max all day and never have a limits issue.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues“I find Claude to be extremely good for transactional legal work, with minimal hallucinations, and cautious in its outputs.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ChatGPTValues“The cited cases have all been correct and pincited correctly. It cites depo transcripts precisely.”open
Hacker News · Sep 6, 2026PerplexityCriticizes“I got a near final doc from one the other day with a bunch of perplexity bullshit in it.”open
Hacker News · Sep 6, 2026ValuesLexis and Westlaw AI integrations outperform general frontier models for legal work, and the best lawyers have embraced LLM assistance. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltechAug 13, 2026 to Sep 4, 202638 voices · 19 like · 10 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 4, 2026ValuesAfter about five days with the smaller tool Lucio, this lawyer is pleasantly surprised but says it is too early to judge it against Harvey or Legora. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues“Worth pricing out what building that internally with Claude would actually take before assuming the subscription is the expensive option.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026ValuesA large firm that previously used Harvey found Filevine's LOIS extremely impressive and more useful than Harvey. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Model selection on Harvey doesn’t do what you think it does. It only produces the final output and is not involved in the actual analysis.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 16, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I do not think Harvey or Legora are some how perfect. I think it’s pretty clear they aren’t and have lots of work to do to keep their current users.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 16, 2026HarveyCriticizes“If you think Harvey optimizes every part of the data pipeline, every edge case, with rivals, pulls the right context, and whatever else you were going to say, you've drunk some serious kool-aid.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 15, 2026HarveyValues“They’re paying because raw model capability is not the same thing as a controlled, verifiable legal operating environment.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 15, 2026ClaudeValues“I’m saying that once you get to know how to use Claude or GPT, they are better and more tailored overall solutions for most practice groups.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026LegoraValues“I am very satisfied Legora user. It really helps me drafting and (proof)reading documents.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026LegoraValues“Legora you can upload 300+ docs at once. Have been playing around with it recently and it’s incredible.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026LegoraValues“Used Legora and it completely changed the way my tasks are done, how projects are organized, how documents are stored.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey is a wrapper of a model. It also does a whole bunch of other stuff.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026HarveyCriticizes“You wrote a lot but you still didn't point out a single thing that actually gives Harvey value over Claude, ChatGPT, etc.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026HarveyValues“With Harvey/Legora, you can use any model and switch back and forth without any disruption to the end-user experience.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“We actually tried Harvey early last year but its usefulness didn’t justify the cost back then.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026CoCounselValues“It's a little clunkier on the UX than Harvey but the full integration with Westlaw and the output accuracy is way better”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyMixed“Granted, IMO Harvey and Legora are overpriced.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyValues“We trialed Harvey, which I loved. When you know how to give it proper directions, it's an incredibly useful tool.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“There is absolutely no reason at all to think Harvey would be more accurate than Claude. It is a LOT more expensive however.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey and Legora are both great.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Unfortunately I was in a similar boat and my team ended up going with Harvey because they wanted something turnkey and didn’t have the confidence to use Claude”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“We tested Claude with a small technology team made up of lawyers, secretaries, and various people from across the business, and it went down really well.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey is its own multi-model/orchestration system: it can split tasks, select models and synthesise outputs using its own harness and it accesses models through different API/cloud routes.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“The analysis and draft documents they output is much better than the older models you’d access through Harvey and Legora.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Neither Microsoft, nor Harvey/Legora can control Fable 5’s data collection other than preventing use of it.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026CriticizesTheir firm's AI committee finds CoCounsel, Legora and Harvey too expensive for what they offer and has started building its own discovery-only drafting tool that connects to the firm's document management system. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude Enterprise is not the same as Clude use via API ( how Harvey deliver Claude). The API will have minimised limits.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The truth is the current state of legaltech is far more about hype than substance, so think about what your actual goal is.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026NeutralAdvises comparing Claude costs against Harvey or Legora and factoring in training, security and compliance, since none is ready out of the box and changing user behavior is hardest. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026NeutralSays how a firm organizes its data matters most, and that wrapper tools suit traditional firms without a tech department but give no competitive edge. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“If you spend the time to figure out how to use it, Claude is far more powerful.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyValues“I’m a huge fan, as it’s saved me many discovery headaches and has made my work day less stressful tbh.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyMixed“On balance I prefer Harvey because of the interface and doesn’t crash as much as Legora, but there’s not much in it, especially as I set the model to Claude Opus 5 or GPT5.6 Sol every time I use it.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyValues“All of that makes it easier for my attorneys to just pick up an use.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey and Legora have integrations to iManage Cloud for example, whereas Claude would use iManage MCP Server as Copilot does.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions are great ! But tbh half of the white collar professionals I know are reluctant to go deeper than chat interface so they are the ICP of Harvey/Legora.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Main issue with Claude enterprise is the number of documents you can handle at one time. The context window is limited.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyValues“People hate on Harvey/Legora but they can and do provide lots of value outside the FOMO marketing aspect if they are used correctly.”open
r/LawyertalkSep 4, 20262 voices · 0 like · 2 dislike
“AI also writes poorly. I guess AI can draft better than the worst attorneys, but any attorney who is intentional about honing their craft will outperform it by far.”
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 4, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“AI also writes poorly. I guess AI can draft better than the worst attorneys, but any attorney who is intentional about honing their craft will outperform it by far.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 4, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I tried to use Claude to create an index for me recently to a tranche of documents and I had to hand feed it small batches and then paste together the small tables it was able to create per batch.”open
r/LawFirmAug 31, 2026 to Sep 3, 202611 voices · 7 like · 3 dislike
r/LawFirm · Sep 3, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Running Claude on your desktop does not mean the data is private.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 2, 2026ClaudeValues“You can build these all inside of Claude Code and connect to your email, then have it segment leads from there so you know the status of each person before you talk to them.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“It’s fking wild man! What it can do is mind blowing.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“This is where Eve/EvenUp-class tools and a well-set Claude Project both earn their keep.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“Before committing to Eve I'd set up a Claude project per document type and put your own exemplars and instructions in it.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“Yes! You can tell it to do anything you can think of, just treat it like a legal assistant in human language.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Claude uploads your files online to Anthropic servers. Claude does not run locally so everything goes online, unlike a local LLM that you can run offline.”open
r/LawFirm · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeNeutral“We strictly use Claude Cowork in local folders, not the cloud. The files/work never leave the computer.”open
r/LawFirm · Aug 31, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“They should be because consumer Claude even a paid subscription was founded to not have client attorney privileges. Once it goes in it's fair game.”open
r/LawFirm · Aug 31, 2026ClaudeValues“I recommend watching some intro YouTube videos on whatever you decide to use. We use Claude and love it (PI firm).”open
r/LawFirm · Aug 31, 2026ClaudeValues“We do a lot of motion practice and it cuts down time tremendously, especially when doing opposition to MSJ it’s very document heavy task.”open
r/legaltechAug 16, 2026 to Sep 2, 20266 voices · 4 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Sep 2, 2026ValuesThe free OpenLaw MCP makes UK case law usable by LLMs like Claude and gets about 90% of the way to Westlaw, though with less depth. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 25, 2026ValuesPlugins in Claude or ChatGPT that draw on trusted sources are useful for legal research and other tasks like horizon scanning and clause compliance. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 16, 2026ChatGPTNeutralThe author uses ChatGPT and Claude with their documents for legal research and plans to explore connectors further. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 16, 2026ValuesCasenode.ai offers free UK case law and shows which cases are cited most for a search term, unlike free tools that need exact queries. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 16, 2026ValuesLLMs are unreliable for legal advice from training data alone, but connected to legal databases they give a useful starting point, not a substitute for professional judgement. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 16, 2026MixedGPT-5.6 Luna, Grok 4.6 and GLM5.2 all worked well on UK employment law scenarios, while Qwen3.8-27B was disappointing. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltechAug 13, 2026 to Sep 1, 202621 voices · 13 like · 6 dislike
“Vlaude is great and we started redesigning our workflows around it a year ago, but there are still numerous handoff and setup points that can be solved with automation.”
r/legaltech · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“Vlaude is great and we started redesigning our workflows around it a year ago, but there are still numerous handoff and setup points that can be solved with automation.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 25, 2026ClaudeMixedClaude, Gemini and ChatGPT in legal ops are unreliable in practice, with failing scripts, broken connectors, and credit limits, so much work still has to be done manually. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ClaudeValues“Agreed; not worth paying for Legora/Harvey when you can just use more advanced LLMs like Claude & then use MCP Plug-ins like Courtlistener, Courtroom Insight, Ironclad, etc.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026CriticizesMany legal AI products are just ChatGPT wrappers with a markup, and only tools that fit existing workflow save time. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026ClaudeValues“I don’t prompt anymore - I basically just grunt a few sentences and Claude will kind of read my mind after months and months of context accumulation.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026ClaudeValues“Everything you mentioned can be done in Claude now.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026ClaudeValues“The verified work product I receive back beats any associate and most partners in our 100+ attorney firm.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ChatGPTValues“For a large part of everyday legal work, I think there is a simpler alternative: Use the right models of ChatGPT, Claude or Grok, with web search, strong skills / plugins, and the right prompts.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ValuesA closed, secure review platform is useful for a defense firm, but cost and attorney training are obstacles, and using public ChatGPT or Copilot is a concern. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026LegoraValues“You're not - Harvey, Legora, etc. are all great tools and they make super effective results attainable for lawyers of varying levels of tech-comfort with minimal effort.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026Criticizes“Just the other day, was told that Spellbook they're being priced 8k a year for each seat when it's just a small department, thats 24k for 3 seats just to see if its going to be a nice fit for them.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ValuesThe author is happy with GC AI and its US caselaw add-on, finding it excellent with contracts and reasonably good for research, compared with Claude and ChatGPT. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026CriticizesThe author finds legal AI tools middling and expensive, not clearly doing more than regular ChatGPT or Claude. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026GeminiCriticizes“Earlier this year I popped an opposing counsel's ass who filed a document that had 10 case hallucinations out of forty total citations.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026CriticizesThe author says legal AI wrappers, including Harvey, rely on underlying models like Claude or ChatGPT, and the wrapper does not fundamentally change the output. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude with MCP to Court Listener (free) or Descrybe ($25/mo) or even CoCounsel ($$$ in Westlaw sub) is just as good as Harvey or better in my experience.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ValuesThe author prefers legal-specific platforms for their caselaw access, fewer hallucinations, more accurate citations and document management integration, and doubts general models offer cost savings. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“You can do the same with the off the shelf AI models, if you use Claude CoWork, for example (they can connect with a shared Dropbox that has all your playbooks, drafting guidelines, etc. )”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“It depends: if you sent client info to Claude or GPT, any of the frontier models really, there are issues with privilege and the platform essentially taking the client’s (or your) data.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ChatGPTValues“My firm uses ChatGPT Enterprise and it's absolutely fantastic.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026MixedThe author uses GC AI daily and likes it, and finds Claude's legal reasoning weak unless given a lot of context, which takes significant work. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltechAug 30, 2026 to Sep 1, 202611 voices · 7 like · 3 dislike
“I mean, these guys were so busy paying for special AI legal system, they didn't realize that Claude Fable 5, with Cowork, set up like Claude for Legal - it's a game changer.”
r/legaltech · Sep 1, 2026ClaudeValues“I mean, these guys were so busy paying for special AI legal system, they didn't realize that Claude Fable 5, with Cowork, set up like Claude for Legal - it's a game changer.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 1, 2026HarveyCriticizes“When you build, you own the model choice, so when Opus gets replaced you find out because you decided. When you buy, you find out because an attorney missed something.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026HarveyValues“I promise you that Harvey and Legora have solved thousands of problems that you haven't.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026LegoraValues“FWIW I think the way this ends up going is companies like Legora become the way that you run your AI investments like skills etc because creating a harness for doing legal things is actually quite tricky and well worth outsourcing.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026LegoraValues“The wrapper term doesn’t make sense to me when the vast majority of their product is about what they do with the model rather than the model itself.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026LegoraCriticizes“I agree with you that a self-build is hard to get right, or even close to right, but I don't think Legora et al are the answer - ultimately, they're just wrappers for someone else's tech, I don't really see the special sauce they bring long term.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026LegoraValues“Making that 30% go away is years of work with a large team of engineers continually analysing and building evals etc. that’s where legora and other players are sitting and why it makes a bunch of sense to be buying them.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026CoCounselMixed“We uploaded some intake notes and there was one line in there that should have disqualified the prospect due to an heirship issue and every system missed it.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValuesSuggests a small firm can start with Claude Enterprise for a small fee without a large budget. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ChatGPTValues“None of these legal platforms/tools are superior to just an underlying Claude or ChatGPT subscription even before building out skills and/or project files.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey/Legora/(insert similar products) are done.”open
r/LawyertalkAug 26, 2026 to Sep 1, 20267 voices · 3 like · 2 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Sep 1, 2026CoCounselValues“It’s only $300/month over my current subscription per seat, which I think is worth it.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 26, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Consumer/Pro Claude is not built for confidential client uploads under ordinary terms.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 26, 2026ValuesUse Westlaw AI to find cases, then upload them with the full case record into a litigation AI to draft the motion or opposition. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 26, 2026ValuesRecommends keeping legal research in Westlaw and using a separate enterprise litigation AI in a closed environment to draft from the case file. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 26, 2026NeutralA private cloud provider avoids silent data retention and court-ordered disclosure by the AI vendor and gives access to more than one model. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 26, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Except: Anthropic doesn't offer ZDR Fable and Anthropic is inserting watermarks, and of course, Anthropic may be sued and forced to retain data... this happened before with OpenAI.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 26, 2026NeutralSuggests private cloud such as Azure or AWS Bedrock with zero data retention as an option, and says self-hosting frontier models is not practical for a law practice. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltechAug 29, 2026 to Aug 31, 202616 voices · 5 like · 7 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 31, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey 2.0 should be a major step forward.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026LegoraCriticizes“I’m hesitant to commit to a technology that can change, but is essentially a snapshot in time.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyCriticizes“My issue with Harvey isn’t whether it’s useful today. It’s whether it’s worth paying a premium for.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyCriticizes“My issue with Harvey isn’t whether it’s useful today. It’s whether it’s worth paying a premium for.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I use Claude Regularly and it’s trash. It fails to organize documents and does the least work possible and lies to me about the process.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues“Running 10,000 document litigation now and writing 90% perfect briefs and motions.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey continues to innovate and get better your analogy from a brief trial is way off base.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I agree that in many cases the Harvey, Legoland, amd.other legal tech do not offer enough value relative to leverage frontier model APIs and.ypur own custom apps and agents.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeNeutral“AFAIK Team doesn't provide for Zero Data Retention. Only Claude Enterprise.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 30, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude Team is, I believe, fine for rollout to the whole team. It is significantly cheaper than Harvey and gets you 80% of the way, if not further.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 29, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“It straight up has hallucinated holdings and has informed me that statutes I know exist don’t.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 29, 2026HarveyMixed“We recently trialed Harvey, and while it was good, it a was just good.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 29, 2026CoCounselValues“CoCounsel. It integrates everything in one system, research included, and has the best integrations for DMS, Outlook, and MS 365”open
r/legaltech · Aug 29, 2026NeutralAfter trialing Harvey, Legora and CoCounsel, the firm chose to build its own practice-area tool at much lower cost. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 29, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is just a harness that offers you things you can create yourself, plus the Lexis connection. Remove Lexis and, imho, there’s no real viable business case for Harvey”open
r/legaltech · Aug 29, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Haiku 4 might be cheaper, but quality drops significantly.”open
r/legaltechAug 27, 2026 to Aug 29, 20264 voices · 0 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 29, 2026MixedThe author finds general AI models give good but inconsistent answers on Indian law, which varies by state, and says legal reasoning must stay with humans rather than rely on benchmarks. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 27, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey’s agent for this benchmark, in my opinion, does NOT reflect a real world setup.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 27, 2026HarveyNeutral“Overall, I'm super thankful that Harvey open-sourced LAB and think that it's super helpful to legal-AI development. But I'm not sure I would rely on LAB scores as a measure of legal-AI performance.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 27, 2026HarveyNeutral“It is a very simple harness that is much less powerful than something like Claude Code (or cowork).”open
r/LawyertalkAug 27, 20262 voices · 0 like · 2 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 27, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Apparently ChatGPT told them that their soft tissue injury should have paid over $5 million 😂😂”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 27, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“The worst part about chatgpt is that it’s been giving pro pers unrealistic ideas of what they will get in court, which in turn makes settlement near impossible because your reasonable offer is way off base from what chatgpt told them.”open
r/legaltechAug 6, 2026 to Aug 25, 202613 voices · 5 like · 2 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 25, 2026NeutralProvider APIs offer strong retention controls, but legal software vendors may still keep data for model improvement, so lawyers should read each product's privacy policy. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“We considered AWS Bedrock-claude, but cross-border issues, the need for agreements, and the fact that it is too hard relative to the local solution.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 7, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“For anything with client names, IDs, medicals, or privileged notes, consumer ChatGPT/Claude is the wrong tier. Those plans can train on or retain inputs unless you have a written enterprise/API deal with zero retention.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 7, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey is not zero data retention. Harvey requires ZDR from the model providers it calls, which is a statement about what OpenAI and Anthropic keep, not about what Harvey keeps.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 7, 2026HarveyValues“Use a zero data retention system built for legal work (Harvey, CoCounsel, etc) and get client consent before using AI on their matters.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 7, 2026CopilotMixed“I’m not yet sure how Open AI’s Business plan compares, as I’m looking to switch to Codex due to GitHub Copilot burning tokens too quickly.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 7, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“Open AI for example has a difference set of security standards, terms, and policies for enterprise and business as opposed to their standard consumer levels.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 7, 2026ClaudeNeutral“The business/teams version is protected by the same commercial agreement as enterprise.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 7, 2026ChatGPTValues“I do not understand the obsession with ZDR.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 7, 2026CopilotMixed“GitHub Copilot Pro or GPT Pro for instance do not have privacy protection by default, but can have the option disabled for feeding into the model.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026ClaudeValues“Section B separately provides that the customer retains rights to Inputs and owns Outputs, and that Anthropic may not train on Customer Content.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026ClaudeValues“Check over the commercial terms and the data processing addendum for Anthropic. It’s actually quite reassuring.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026HarveyValues“Using a vendor like Harvey is nice in part because they have a lot more negotiating power to get ZDR.”open
r/legaltechAug 23, 20262 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
“In big transactions, I have agents develop dependency charts that show every other provision and document that needs to change if one provision changes, and I use an orchestrator agent to orchestrate it all and report to me.”
r/legaltech · Aug 23, 2026ClaudeValues“In big transactions, I have agents develop dependency charts that show every other provision and document that needs to change if one provision changes, and I use an orchestrator agent to orchestrate it all and report to me.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 23, 2026CriticizesLegal AI products like Harvey and Legora are thin wrappers over general LLMs with limited connections, and lawyers need a secure harness linking their chosen models, document systems and research services. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawyertalkAug 21, 2026 to Aug 22, 202624 voices · 11 like · 3 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 22, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe author downloads batches of Westlaw cases for each cause of action and prompts the AI one legal argument at a time. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 22, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe author built a Claude skill that logs into Lexis and downloads the cases cited in a document's argument section. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 22, 2026ClaudeValues“I've never had any issues and I've been doing this for a couple years now.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Team is a commercial tier with a DPA and no training by default, which is a real step up from a personal free/Pro login.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ValuesThe author prefers Legion for discovery because it is far easier to iterate on than wrestling with Claude, though the output is not perfect. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I've tried a few different configurations in Claude and it just is doing a terrible job - either it drafts way too much, or it drafts way too little and misses big things, with not much in between.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026NeutralThe author has used AI in litigation since ChatGPT launched and advises that curiosity and a framework like DRAFT are all a lawyer needs to apply it to pain points. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“I kick it over to my associate to cite check but at this point I've only ever seen him find a pincite off by a page.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude Team is good enough for most attorneys that don't have Fortune 500 clients with insane security/confidentiality requirements that require individual vendor signoffs.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeMixed“I used to just let it do what it do, and it wasn’t bad. The citations were never a problem for me.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeNeutralA solo estate planning lawyer uses Claude and ChatGPT to write Python code that turns intake consultation notes into structured data, as a cheap home-built workflow. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“2nd on Protege…it’s so buggy and extremely limited as far as brainstorming.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeMixed“Claude is better for emails and contract drafting but chatgpt is better for caselaw and motions/memorandum”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Claude team is a commercial plan that has a DPA and by default does not train on the data.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeMixed“It is more respectful of PDFs than of word documents, and rarely edits documents you feed it as context -- but it can do so.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“It is all about training Claude on Skills.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“Skills, instruction files that encode a whole process instead of a document format, are even more dialed in.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“Protege is too expensive for its ability right now imo”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“Every case citation I’ve gotten since connecting to Midpage has been right.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“I’m solo with one paralegal and it frees up so much time just getting a draft to play with motions and discoveries. Better than my paralegal could do.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“The big advantage is getting 80% of the work done in minutes, leaving me to spend my usually hours reviewing the cases and improving the analysis.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“Obviously I still check in on their work product and citations, but it’s improved the drafts substantially.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe firm moved its matter-organization rules into Claude Cowork skills, which walk staff through matter setup, create files and tasks, and remind them of trust account requirements. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“I created templates for some motions and it does some pretty solid first drafts for them and discovery.”open
r/LawyertalkAug 15, 2026 to Aug 22, 202614 voices · 7 like · 3 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 22, 2026Westlaw AIValues“Throw those case in AI and I get to my next step in 20 minutes rather than 4 or 5 hours.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 17, 2026NeutralThe author no longer pays for Westlaw or Lexis, previously using free bar-provided FastCase and now usually using AI. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026ClaudeValuesThe author suggests replacing Westlaw with a $20 Claude subscription to find and analyze caselaw, while checking every case to rule out hallucination, and calls Enterprise Microsoft Copilot very useful. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026Westlaw AIValues“It links you to every case so you can read it and ensure accuracy.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“Some firms use cocounsel too much as a firm is facing a $20,000 sanctions hearing for citing hallucinatory cases in a lawsuit against the city.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026CoCounselMixed“Cocounsel is pretty decent if you do a lot of legal research.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes“The AI now won’t even give me statutory text at the beginning of a search when I’m looking for a statute.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 16, 2026ClioValues“I just signed up for Clio work and love it so far.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026ClaudeValues“Vlex (usually free through your local bar) and Claude + a courtlistener plugin like DingDuff are almost as good and cost basically nothing.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026Westlaw AIValues“Yes, Westlaw has its own AI and it’s very helpful.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026Westlaw AIValues“While I wouldn’t trust the analysis it provides without thoroughly reviewing the cases it cites, I think it’s a good starting point.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026CriticizesThe author avoids paid Westlaw and AI, using free bar-provided Decisis and Google Scholar instead, and calls AI output slop. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026MixedAI is faster for a first pass at finding cases but weak on completeness, so every case must be verified like a junior's memo and client facts kept out of consumer tools. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026Westlaw AIMixed“Westlaw does have an AI bot now that is pretty decent at fetching cases, though it will at times miss issues and thus cases, or turn up cases that are not useful, or miss the holding's logic.”open
r/LawyertalkAug 22, 20262 voices · 2 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 21, 2026MixedGeneral-purpose AI tools are flexible but give inconsistent results across prompts, while legal-specific tools offer repeatable workflows and higher accuracy, so the choice depends on the aim. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 21, 2026MixedGeneral-purpose AI tools are flexible but give inconsistent results across prompts, while legal-specific tools offer repeatable workflows and higher accuracy, so the choice depends on the aim. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 21, 2026ClaudeValues“IManage has out of the box mcp connector. Works really well.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 19, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Claude > iManage CoPilot > iManage ChatGPT ... couldn't get it to work and gave up.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ClaudeMixed“Sometimes I'm like "Stop. I'll just do it" - like searching for files, it's still faster to do it yourself and it still gets confused.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ClaudeNeutral“The MCP isn’t giving you the same outcome as searching a vectorized dataset.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ClaudeValues“Incredibly useful, super low cost, highly customizable.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ClaudeValues“MCP into the DMS is a real path, and for a lot of firms it beats buying a full Harvey/Legora seat stack when the main need is chat over firm documents under the model contract you already have.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ClaudeValues“Pretty efficient, and the counsel can bring their current AI setups and not have to sign up to a whole new AI software.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey and Legora provide the infrastructure at very steep cost that you will pay per seat forever and even after paying for it you will still have to set up a lot of customization in terms of integration and workflows.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ClaudeValues“I prefer using MCPs with Claude because Legora/Harvey is so slow/buggy”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ChatGPTValues“From the screenshots, it looked pretty impressive.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ClaudeValues“Very doable still, but more maintenance and lift (but miles cheaper).”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“One thing, and I don't if it's changed yet, is that I couldn't get Claude or copilot to work with OBO (on behalf of) calls.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 21, 2026HarveyValues“When I asked Harvey and Legora the same research question they were basically the same answers.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 21, 2026HarveyMixed“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
r/biglaw · Aug 21, 2026LegoraValues“I think it makes me 30% more efficient generally, but if I am writing briefs or summaries of documents it's much higher”open
r/legaltechAug 18, 2026 to Aug 20, 202610 voices · 2 like · 7 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026HarveyCriticizesHarvey is mostly hype and marketing, with announcements that lack real usage and mainly let firms claim they use AI. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 19, 2026HarveyCriticizesHarvey's benchmark appears to measure cost rather than accuracy, and its judge never sees the source materials, so it cannot show grounded answers. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 19, 2026HarveyCriticizesHarvey's benchmarks include few active-litigation and court-submission tasks, so they say little about accuracy where sanctions risk matters. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 19, 2026HarveyValues“As a user I do think the output from Harvey is still better than Claude cowork with the legal plugin.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026HarveyValues“If it’s significantly cheaper than paying Anthropic or OpenAI, then I’d say it is a success for law firms.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Sure, because now it’s a wrapper for Kimi K3 *and* *ChatGPT!*”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Yes, same reason model selection in Harvey doesn’t actually do much. They don’t want to pay for tokens.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026HarveyNeutral“Early on, Harvey tried to post-train a model for legal work, but the underlying OpenAI models were improving so quickly that a new base model would arrive and leapfrog Harvey's customized one.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey’s fundamental flaw is essentially a variation of the “lump of labor” fallacy — they have a vision of What Lawyers Do and then try to automate those tasks.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I'm skeptical that training an open source model (Kimi K3), whose biggest draw is being cheaper, will play out any differently.”open
r/legaltechAug 20, 20265 voices · 4 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026Values“Spellbook has been very helpful for first round edits/issues lists”open
r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026Values“I've been using it since it came out in beta and it is phenomenal and plugs right into Word.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026CopilotNeutral“Use Copilot only for things you can verify from your own knowledge”open
r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026CopilotValues“Kinda/yes - it’s mostly just a wrapper There are rumors they’ve been testing kimi in copilot which outperforms Anthropic and OpenAI on the Harvey bench (legal benchmark)”open
r/legaltech · Aug 20, 2026HarveyValues“I got pretty good use out of it for review of multiple docs at the one time and large DD exercises and generally found it pretty good as a drafting assistant”open
r/LawyertalkAug 19, 2026 to Aug 20, 20263 voices · 0 like · 3 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 20, 2026CriticizesAI pin cites are unreliable even when the main case cite is right, and even the legal AI vendors warn users to double-check them. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 20, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“Protege is directly part of Lexis and still can’t be trusted.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 19, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes“Running a brief through Westlaw cite check is insufficient IMO. It is just another AI platform.”open
r/LawyertalkAug 20, 20262 voices · 0 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 19, 2026ClaudeMixed“For low/no-cost experimentation, I’d treat Claude as a drafting assistant and issue-spotter, not as the source of truth.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026ClaudeValues“A Claude (word plugin) proof prior to signing is great too.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 11, 2026ClaudeMixed“I am a big fan of Claude and think it has many good applications for legal work.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 11, 2026ClaudeMixed“Free Claude can be a decent sparring partner for comparing clause approaches, but T&E is a rough place to trust generative drafting as the source of truth.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“The second-biggest problem is that AI is inconsistent, and that is highly problematic.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 11, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“This seems like a particularly BAD use case for generic Claude right now.”open
r/biglawAug 18, 2026 to Aug 19, 20265 voices · 1 like · 4 dislike
r/biglaw · Aug 19, 2026ClaudeValues“The general purpose LLMs will do whatever legal stuff you need with minimal prompting.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 19, 2026HarveyCriticizes“We’re the clients though, and i’m not seeing much value here.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 19, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Yeah Harvey has no future if they have to pay Anthropic and OpenAI their API costs.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Read the help book and it explains how it only selects the model for the final output and all other tasks are automatically assigned a model by Harvey based on their own metrics (which you can guess highly prioritizes cost to Harvey).”open
r/biglaw · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“No offense but Harvey isn’t an AI lab - at best, they are a harness for ChatGPT/Claude.”open
r/biglawAug 18, 2026 to Aug 19, 20263 voices · 0 like · 3 dislike
r/biglaw · Aug 19, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is using Claude. It’s just a rapper for Claude.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“There is not one single thing that Harvey does that I could not do in a better cleaner way with Claude alone for half the cost.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 18, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The fact Harvey got away with this scam is incredible marketing.”open
r/paralegalAug 15, 2026 to Aug 18, 20267 voices · 3 like · 3 dislike
r/paralegal · Aug 18, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed“It sometimes seems to Stretch the case to fit, and once it latches on to a case it does NOT let go of it.”open
r/paralegal · Aug 16, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“ChatGPT is not private. There are serious risks to putting any of that into ChatGPT.”open
r/paralegal · Aug 16, 2026ClaudeValues“AI saves tremendous amount of time, especially for lengthy discovery. It turns hours of work into minutes.”open
r/paralegal · Aug 15, 2026CriticizesTheir firm blocks ChatGPT and offers in-house AI tools, but staff must still check the output and bear fault for errors, so doing the task themselves may be faster. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Aug 15, 2026ValuesAI is a tool like Westlaw that legal professionals should learn, with the human audit and high-level work being where the value lies. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Aug 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Yes, it can make good stuff sometimes, but I’ve tried to explain that Harvey has ZERO nuance and we’re missing huge points that could be used for defense.”open
r/paralegal · Aug 15, 2026ChatGPTValues“Using chatgpt will save you a lot of time.”open
r/legaltechAug 8, 2026 to Aug 17, 202610 voices · 7 like · 1 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 17, 2026GeminiCriticizes“I’ve found every Gemini model in chat , even 3.1 Pro, to be absolutely shockingly awful with hallucinations.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 15, 2026ValuesLegal AI products are expensive, but cross-checking general models such as Gemini and Claude against each other worked well for the author's bankruptcy analysis. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 9, 2026ValuesHaving trained legal AI models, the author says they have improved from poor to better than the author in unfamiliar practice areas, though they cannot make court appearances. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeMixed“It's definitely a major time savior thiguh it has its significant costs.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues“Over the course of an hour or two of iterations back and forth it spit out a very solid letter.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude has saved me so much time and has done such a good work.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ValuesAI makes big-law M&A work more efficient but juniors outsource their critical thinking, and it is not yet reducing the need for junior lawyers. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues“I use Claude Fable/Opus on extra effort all day. It’s made me much more efficient.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ClaudeValues“Everything we’d want a junior/intern to do, LLMs do much better, quicker, and at a fraction of the cost.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026ChatGPTMixed“Using free tier AI apps like ChatGPT risk data being used for training and provide a good baseline for summaries or finding stuff in large documents.”open
r/legaltechAug 13, 2026 to Aug 15, 20268 voices · 5 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 15, 2026HarveyValues“I used Harvey every day but it comes with a library of workflows that lawyers can amend for their own use and honestly it’s been game changing.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026ClaudeMixed“AI can generate consistent work products. You just need to program it and give it the resources to do so.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 14, 2026ClaudeValues“Two months of coding with Claude and Gemini produced a program that the Lexis rep was impressed by.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026CopilotNeutral“FYI you can select the model you use for enterprise copilot. It is set to auto, but you can choose for example GPT Sol 5.6 which is very powerful.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“I just picked Claude a while ago and decided to learn that platform and ecosystem thoroughly.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026NeutralIn-house lawyers should map the workflow first, use enterprise-tier tools for real contracts, require structured output and keep a human sign-off on every step. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeValues“Copilot is fine but if you can swing Claude or OpenAI and use Claude Code or Codex or their work versions, do that.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026CopilotValues“It’s been helpful, but I want to knuckle down over the next month and learn this properly and systematically.”open
r/paralegalAug 14, 2026 to Aug 15, 20262 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
r/paralegal · Aug 15, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“CoCounsel is horrible. you ask it to do one task and get the document/response and ask same exact action and get something totally different.”open
r/paralegal · Aug 14, 2026CoCounselValues“I am able to have cocounsel generate word docs.”open
r/LawyertalkAug 15, 20262 voices · 0 like · 1 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026ChatGPTNeutralThe author pays for a ChatGPT business license to keep data in a closed loop and says they know the professional responsibility rules. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 15, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Open source AI uses your input to refine its model. It therefore takes and stores your information.”open
r/biglawAug 12, 2026 to Aug 14, 20265 voices · 0 like · 4 dislike
r/biglaw · Aug 14, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is horrible but let's not act like Claude is that useful either for this job”open
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Lollll it loses context mid conversation all the time the user experience is so bad compared to just regular Claude.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Bruh tell that to all your forward deployed legal engineers out there cranking on prompts for every PGL they can meet.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026HarveyNeutral“On my end, it looks like I’m able to use Deep Analysis with Opus 5.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“You can select the model, but not the effort.”open
r/LawyertalkAug 14, 20265 voices · 0 like · 4 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026ChatGPTMixed“I say in general what you said chatgpt says is more right than wrong but there is a lot missing and without context is incomplete.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026CopilotCriticizes“Even procurement is running contracts, order forms etc through whatever GenAI just to produce completely unusable risk lists.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026CriticizesClients should not upload counsel drafts to consumer AI accounts, and client-supplied AI feedback should be handled through engagement terms and hourly billing. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I keep having to argue with clients about why chatgpts suggestions don't make sense in their context.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026CriticizesThe lawyer bars clients from sending AI-generated research because it invents authority, and verifies every citation through Westlaw at a billable rate. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawyertalkAug 14, 20262 voices · 0 like · 2 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026CriticizesThe lawyer's retainer prohibits client-supplied AI research because it invents authority, and bills verification time at an hourly rate. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 14, 2026CriticizesRetainer language warns that AI tools give incorrect or outdated information, risk sanctions and privilege loss, and that client AI use is against attorney advice and billable. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltechJul 20, 2026 to Aug 13, 202630 voices · 17 like · 8 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 13, 2026HarveyMixed“You pay a massive seat fee for turnkey convenience rather than some proprietary AI capability.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 4, 2026HarveyValues“What you're paying for with any of these is everything around the model.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 29, 2026CriticizesExisting legal AI tools are a thin layer over Claude and cannot guarantee accurate citations, so the author built their own research system for a pro se case. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 28, 2026HarveyValues“If you have Claude plus good legal database access and don't mind putting the pieces together yourself, you can get surprisingly close.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 25, 2026ClaudeValues“If you're comfortable building your own setup with Claude and connectors, that should also work pretty well.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 24, 2026HarveyValues“It also satisfies firmwide SOC 2 compliance, zero-data-retention rules, and audit requirements right out of the box, which BigLaw IT teams demand.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeValuesClaude with connectors beats legal AI tools for a lawyer skilled with AI, but uploading documents raises confidentiality concerns about training data. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 22, 2026HarveyCriticizes“If the underlying provider locks all the way in and expands to the edges and further, nothing currently survives.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 22, 2026ClaudeValues“For many day to day tasks, Claude works equally as good IMO, but if a firm has the wallet, I think it’s better to purchase and implement a system.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 22, 2026HarveyValues“From a tech perspective, Harvey’s value is not just the AI. It also combines trusted legal sources, citation checking, security, and workflows made for law firms.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 22, 2026HarveyValues“It’s very good at verifying facts against a record, changing the tone of a document, summarizing briefs, and measuring the strengths and weaknesses of arguments though.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026ClaudeValues“Having the flexibility to use general purpose tools generally is valuable, and for the cost of seat licenses to Harvey you can deploy a lot of horsepower directly.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyValues“I strongly believe anyone saying anything you can do in Harvey you can do with Claude (even in the Enterprise) is uninformed and speaking outside their purview.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Models and their owners will catch up, and the utility will fall off of a cliff.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyValues“I just wanted to present my experience as someone who has actually used Harvey, as so much of what I read in this sub about it is nonsense by those who've never used it.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026ValuesRecommends the open-source MikeOS, built by a former Latham attorney, as performing well against Legora and Harvey. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey has insider access to OpenAI and newer models than the public.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyCriticizes“There's nothing special about Harvey. You can use any foundational model to achieve the same thing”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey allows processing over 10,000 documents and will happily put them in a grid and run prompts on each one.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026ClaudeNeutral“A premium seat has a lot of capacity even for Opus usage though, those are serious subsidies or betting that most people won't come close to maximizing a seat.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyMixed“There's very little that Harvey will provide over Claude.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It’s not long ago (12mo max) that they were guiding people away from using it as a legal research tool in their official training (presumably because of the hallucination risk, which they can never fully eliminate).”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026ClaudeValuesIs skeptical that Harvey's advantages will last, since base Claude's redlining is improving and the added value is unclear. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Nothing. You need to understand that the decision makers that hire Harvey never have to deal with the system themselves, as they have a myriad of middle managers that will land them a clean report with everything they want to know”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyValues“It's for lawyers and works amazingly for legal work.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“I would think that the AI features of Lexis can get your legal research to at least the same spot for less money.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyNeutral“It is, but it's opt-in only because of its different data retention policy.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey always struck me as one of this companies designed to set VC money on fire.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyValues“Watching a review table video now. Ok these do look very cool.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 20, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Nothing. The legal tech AIs were doomed with the release of Opus-level coding abilities.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Yes, firms can see your chats and everything else, at least for a specific retention period.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“100% yes (source: me. I have this access to my firms Harvey usage). You can see everything.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey is specifically built to allow admins to see full usage, exact prompts, prompt quality, which tool you are prompting.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“During my firm’s trial of Harvey, they did identify which attorneys had the highest number of inquires.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“Yes, Harvey administrators (within your firm, not from Harvey) can see all prompts and documents for all users.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyNeutral“I'm in-house but we use Harvey and can ask our rep to pull/review prompts.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey isn’t able to recover my actual work after a week or if it does a dumb refresh mid-thread sometimes…”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It hallucinated a board action with citation to the wrong DGCL section.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 13, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Agree. But also practically speaking, I don’t actually think it’s very easy for IT to access AI chat logs.”open
r/LawyertalkMay 6, 2026 to Aug 12, 20267 voices · 3 like · 3 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 12, 2026ClioCriticizes“We were sold on features that actually don't exist despite what we were told, and they are constantly changing features in ways we do not want.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 28, 2026ClioCriticizes“That's what they've begun doing to me and I can't tell if it's incompetence or a deliberately unfair business practice.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 16, 2026ClioValues“Our 40+ attorney firm is wrapping up a 30 day trial of Clio Work and, I have to say, it’s impressive.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 9, 2026ValuesAn AI tool tied to the client's files gave excellent, verifiable answers during a free trial, unlike ChatGPT's tendency to please the user. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · May 11, 2026ClioNeutral“I’m just saying this isn’t a clio issue, it’s a computer issue. Computers do decimals not fractions.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ClioCriticizes“Much prefer MyCase. They’re sort of like windows vs Apple.”open
r/Lawyertalk · May 6, 2026ClioValues“Clio Work has been a game changer for me. It's really amazing.”open
“She explained that the firm has one of the last flat fee arrangements Legora is signing, and that next year we are being rolled into a token usage model - the firm will then reassess if it makes economical sense. I can tell you, it will not.”
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026ValuesOctus performs well on verifiable, compliant output in niche restructuring work, and embedding such niche models in mainstream LLMs would improve legal AI use. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026LegoraCriticizes“She explained that the firm has one of the last flat fee arrangements Legora is signing, and that next year we are being rolled into a token usage model - the firm will then reassess if it makes economical sense. I can tell you, it will not.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026HarveyValues“Where AI shines is in repeatable template work that is reviewed by an attorney to ensure that it is accurate before it is delivered to a client.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“AI wrappers like Harvey are incentivized to push your work to a shittier model unless you specify which model you want to use (which is still suss) cause the token costs are far less.”open
r/legaltechAug 11, 2026 to Aug 12, 20263 voices · 2 like · 1 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 12, 2026ClaudeValues“Yeah, and the best version of that is Claude’s ZDR. There is no reason to use Harvey and Legora other than lack of AI literacy.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 12, 2026HarveyValues“From a junior associate’s perspective, legal AI makes my life better by saving me time on tasks which I likely won’t be able to bill anyway.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 11, 2026HarveyCriticizesIn the author's experience Harvey and Legora do not help much, and the idea that lawyers no longer need to research or draft is unrealistic. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawyertalkAug 11, 20262 voices · 0 like · 0 dislike
“Enterprise versions, used by large companies and most government agencies (and large law firms, for that matter) do not feed back in to the main training set because they want to protect their info.”
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 11, 2026CopilotNeutral“Enterprise versions, used by large companies and most government agencies (and large law firms, for that matter) do not feed back in to the main training set because they want to protect their info.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 11, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“While I have used it, what gives me pause is the uncertainty on what prompts and outputs are and are not subject to FOIA and discovery.”open
r/LawyertalkAug 6, 2026 to Aug 9, 20262 voices · 1 like · 0 dislike
“Well obviously I’m not one of these idiots that just cuts and pastes whatever ChatGPT spits out. I always go through and check all the cites, and usually add or delete things and amend things”
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 9, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“Well obviously I’m not one of these idiots that just cuts and pastes whatever ChatGPT spits out. I always go through and check all the cites, and usually add or delete things and amend things”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 6, 2026ChatGPTValues“You can use ChatGPT to generate an entire outline of depo questions for a civil litigation case.”open
r/legaltechAug 6, 2026 to Aug 8, 202610 voices · 5 like · 3 dislike
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey doesn’t permit the same data sharing (with the world) that the consumer version of Claude allows.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 8, 2026HarveyValues“Reputable firms use Harvey which itself uses Claude.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 7, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Chat and Claude consumer plans also do not offer BAAs for HIPAA compliance, nor do they comply with strict legal chain-of-custody requirements for client privilege.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“If he just got a Claude pro subscription and is uploading away - yeah I would be concerned because anything you put in Claude pro/max can be read by human reviewers even if you turn training off.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Reputable law firms don’t upload client materials to Claude since it can destroy work product and attorney-client privilege protections.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026MixedLegal AI tools built on Claude's API with zero retention protect privacy better than Google Docs, though the quality of their responses is poor. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026ValuesA properly configured generative AI is no different from other third-party tools lawyers use, and the ethical duty is to make reasonable efforts to select, configure and limit disclosure. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026ValuesA lawyer uses AI regularly, including a local LLM, and argues that proper tiers and settings keep client privilege and confidentiality intact. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026ClaudeValues“Any paid version of Claude isn’t training off the data.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026HarveyNeutralLegal AI tools like Harvey run on underlying LLMs, and without proof that client information reached another person or became public, the client has no claim. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirmAug 7, 2026 to Aug 8, 20263 voices · 2 like · 1 dislike
r/LawFirm · Aug 8, 2026CriticizesTreat non-public client files as a real confidentiality concern and get written answers on training, retention, hosting and BAA before connecting any sorter. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Aug 7, 2026ValuesAny AI can sort files, and a free local model or an existing Claude or OpenAI account keeps it private. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Aug 7, 2026ClaudeValues“If you have Claude, you can just use this with Cowork on their desktop app.”open
r/paralegalAug 6, 2026 to Aug 7, 20264 voices · 0 like · 2 dislike
r/paralegal · Aug 7, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“He says that ChatGPT has hallucinated cases.”open
r/paralegal · Aug 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I was just let go because the new attorney they hired uses ChatGPT for everything (and let me tell you its discovery questions are a doozy) and they no longer need me.”open
r/paralegal · Aug 6, 2026NeutralSays the ruling on AI and privilege applies only to public AI systems like ChatGPT, not to private compliant systems. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegal · Aug 6, 2026MixedSays free or low-tier AI tools risk breaching client confidentiality, while enterprise legal-focused platforms like Vincent protect it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/paralegalAug 7, 20262 voices · 0 like · 2 dislike
“A lot of the legal-branded plug-ins turn out to be a thin layer over the same API you already pay for, and installing one adds a processor to your confidentiality analysis without adding a capability you didn't have.”
r/legaltech · Aug 6, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“A lot of the legal-branded plug-ins turn out to be a thin layer over the same API you already pay for, and installing one adds a processor to your confidentiality analysis without adding a capability you didn't have.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 4, 2026ChatGPTNeutral“I'm sure they are all good at what they tell you they are for.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 4, 2026ClaudeMixed“I do have to warn you about using it for document review & factual extraction, you’ll have to be careful as it won’t give you citation objects.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 4, 2026ClaudeMixed“I do have to warn you about using it for document review & factual extraction, you’ll have to be careful as it won’t give you citation objects.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 4, 2026ChatGPTValues“All of the above but I am already perfectly comfortable using Westlaw and its search features. Though sometimes I appreciate the suggestions provided by GPT.”open
r/legaltech · Aug 4, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“IME Claude has an annoying ‘personality’ and is wrong more often than GPT even on the highest thinking levels.”open
r/LawyertalkAug 2, 2026 to Aug 5, 202614 voices · 7 like · 6 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 5, 2026ValuesAI tools are incredible and do not replace lawyers, but lawyers who do not embrace them will lag in productivity. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 3, 2026Values“I feel bad about using it but it’s infinitely Faster. We use Paxton and it’s great”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026ClaudeValues“The real power is when it's something relatively moderate or even part of something and you can just "one shot" it - one prompt takes you 90% of the way there which would have taken hours before.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselValues“I find cocounsel better at finding a thing I already know exists.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselValuesCoCounsel gives precise citations when told what to cite, so lawyers should learn to use it properly. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselValues“We have cocounsel too and while it’s a great starting point for research and it’s great for reviewing/summarizing hundreds of pages, that’s where it ends for me.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“I wiped his ass with three hour long responses that actually cited controlling rules, because co counsel didn't give a damn about several small nuances it deemed irrelevant.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselValues“Once they went agentic, it became leaps and bounds better.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes“I have to read the actual citation to see if it is on point.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“More annoyingly, I’ll write really thought-out memos and he “revises” them by plugging them into AI and generating a more apathetic, em dash filled version that at least IMO is not better.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“Even CoCounsel and the like halucinates 1 out of 7-10 cases.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“I used cocounsel a couple of times out of curiosity, but it hallucinated some bullshit about what's in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so that was the end of that.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“It gives helpful and accurate citations...sometimes. But it seems that more often that when I go read the cases it cites, those cases don't really say what CoCounsel says they say or stand for.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2026CoCounselMixed“It's an AI-based research aid, not a magic fucking genie.”open
r/LawFirm · Aug 3, 2026ValuesMost apps sold to law firms can be built with AI coding tools easily and cheaply, as shown by the author's own document signing tool feeding a case management app. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Aug 3, 2026GeminiMixed“I thought what I had was great and decently customized for what I was trying to do.”open
r/LawFirm · Aug 3, 2026ClaudeValues“Yay! A kindred spirit! In reality, I think I’m just addicted to Claude.”open
r/LawFirm · Aug 3, 2026ClaudeValues“I'm not in the "generative AI is trash for generating law firm docs" camp.”open
r/LawyertalkJul 31, 2026 to Aug 1, 20265 voices · 0 like · 3 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 1, 2026ClaudeNeutral“Anthropic has ZDR endpoints for HIPAA compliant purposes and documentation of it.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“They never listen when we tell them they’re junk and that they’d save time and money by just having a real lawyer draft everything for them.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026MixedAn AI-generated estate planning summary was a decent primer for the consult, but its legal suggestions were bad and the client trusted it over the attorney's advice. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Explaining to people why Claude’s positions are unreasonable has become a part of my day to day job.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 31, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Both clients got billed for every second I spent reviewing AI, and explaining to them why AI was incorrect.”open
r/LawFirmJul 23, 2026 to Jul 30, 202614 voices · 6 like · 4 dislike
“A lot of solos handle this by using standard tools like Claude Pro or ChatGPT for rough first drafts and summaries rather than paying massive per-seat legal AI fees.”
r/LawFirm · Jul 30, 2026MixedAI tools can save time in a solo practice, but stacking subscriptions is costly and needs guardrails, and confidentiality can be handled with local models or zero-retention providers. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Jul 26, 2026ClaudeMixedClaude-based tools are excellent for first drafting with reusable prompts, but usage-based per-seat pricing becomes costly for high-volume document review. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Jul 24, 2026ClaudeValues“A lot of solos handle this by using standard tools like Claude Pro or ChatGPT for rough first drafts and summaries rather than paying massive per-seat legal AI fees.”open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026NeutralSolos can get first-draft leverage from template-based workflows on a paid business tier with confirmed data terms and mandatory attorney review. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026ChatGPTCriticizesGeneric ChatGPT is much cheaper than legal AI platforms but is blind to citations, which matters depending on the use. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026ClioValues“This thing drafted me a motion to dismiss in one attempt that needed very little editing.”open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026Neutral“My work is mainly transactional and for that I use Spellbook.”open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026ChatGPTValues“I have Lexis make a draft off the same prompt and files, and it’s inferior to the much cheaper Chat documents.”open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“It lacks legal knowledge (no case law database, no Keycite/Shepards, no Practical Guidance) and keeps your data for 5 years.”open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“It lacks legal knowledge (no case law database, no Keycite/Shepards, no Practical Guidance) and keeps your data for 5 years.”open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude + DingDuff, as far as AI tools goes. It's a free tool that connects Claude to the entire courtlistener database.”open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026ClioValues“Clio's new AI and legal research is killer good. Actually scary good.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 29, 2026CriticizesNo LLM should decide whether a legal proposition holds because fabrication remains possible, even in purpose-built grounded tools that Stanford found hallucinating 17 to 33 percent of the time. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ChatGPTValues“When I was taking certification classes last year, if I gave chatgpt the exact information I needed formatted into a citation it worked just fine.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 10, 2026ClaudeValues“Formatting was never the hard part — Claude nails Bluebook form in a couple passes.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 9, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude + Midpage connector and you get near zero case hallucinations and pin cite support.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 8, 2026ClaudeMixed“Checking for pincites though is hard. Almost all websites hosting case law have anti-AI technology meaning it will likely use its training data and hallucinate.”open
r/LawyertalkJul 22, 2026 to Jul 28, 20263 voices · 2 like · 0 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 28, 2026ClaudeValues“It is far from perfect. But it’s a very powerful tool and it’s becoming better quite rapidly.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 28, 2026CoCounselNeutral“For research, I will generally use WestLaw’s co-counsel.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 22, 2026LegoraValues“Legora did a great job summarizing the documents into a spreadsheet and helping pick out the several hundred relevant ones out for prep.”open
r/legaltechJul 17, 2026 to Jul 25, 20264 voices · 3 like · 0 dislike
r/legaltech · Jul 25, 2026PerplexityValues“Connect it and let it verify research. Prompt as usual. Shepardize the final product. I love perplexity for this.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026PerplexityNeutralDescribes a workflow using Perplexity for research, Claude for reviewing citations and quotes, and Lexis for pulling and Shepardizing cases, while stressing that human verification remains necessary. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 18, 2026PerplexityValues“My experience is output for Claude model inside Perplexity is better (my subjective evaluation mostly but I think objectively in many cases).”open
r/legaltech · Jul 17, 2026PerplexityValues“My experience is that ChatGPT 5.6 inside Perplexity Max with web search disabled and provided grounded sources is the best chat/strategy/drafting AI on the market.”open
r/legaltechJul 11, 2026 to Jul 24, 202624 voices · 6 like · 6 dislike
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
r/legaltech · Jul 11, 2026ClaudeValues“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).”open
r/LawyertalkJan 24, 2026 to Jul 24, 20267 voices · 3 like · 2 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 24, 2026HarveyMixed“Try using real legal tools like Ovviously (Affordable and totally reliable) or Harvey (Awesome but really expensive).”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jan 26, 2026CoCounselMixed“It’s good at finding relevant information, not so much at analyzing it.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jan 24, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Someone recommended ChatGPT could help but honestly it is really not that good - many issues in using correct sources for information and incorrect references.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jan 24, 2026ValuesUses AI only for structure, first drafts and rewrites while pulling authority from Westlaw or Lexis, which speeds up writing without invented sources. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jan 24, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I‘ve experimented with AI, including ChatGPT, just to see how far along the tech has come & was not impressed.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jan 24, 2026ChatGPTValues“This workflow has reduced drafting time while preserving research rigor.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jan 24, 2026ChatGPTValues“It is particularly helpful for organizing arguments and structuring analysis.”open
r/legaltechJul 23, 2026 to Jul 24, 20264 voices · 0 like · 4 dislike
r/legaltech · Jul 24, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“These products lack the critical controls, governance, and confidentiality that law firms require.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 24, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Has 0 utility for major law firms and is pretty useless for even in-house teams straight out of the box.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026CriticizesModern LLMs greatly improve accuracy on legal tasks, but high accuracy needs carefully built, reusable solutions, not loosely assembled general agents. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“That's why a plain chapgpt subscription is not a replacement legal solution today, as the data issues create potential malpractice issues for attorneys.”open
r/LawFirmJul 22, 2026 to Jul 24, 20263 voices · 3 like · 0 dislike
r/LawFirm · Jul 24, 2026ClaudeValues“The best and cheapest way to learn AI is by using it to guide you along.”open
r/LawFirm · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeValues“Literally just ask Claude. I'm not trying to be a dick, but that is genuinely how I learned and it will be custom to you.”open
r/LawFirm · Jul 22, 2026ClaudeValuesSuggests describing your practice to Claude and asking how it can help, treating it like a junior intern, while supervising everything it does. (summary, not a quote)open
r/LawyertalkJun 15, 2025 to Jul 23, 20266 voices · 3 like · 3 dislike
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 23, 2026ChatGPTValues“The hallucinations i haven’t dealt with on ChatGPT, but on Gemini, they are something else!”open
r/Lawyertalk · Aug 2, 2025ChatGPTValues“I'm not using it to write the briefs, but it's actually finding all the information compiling it for me comparing it giving me rebuttal ideas.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 14, 2025ValuesUses AI to navigate deposition testimony and to scope a research issue before moving to Westlaw, saving time but always double-checking output, and considers paid legal research AI products not ready and overpriced. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 15, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“It’s not connected to some giant legal database that it can search through to find what you want. It’s just spitting out words that look correct.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 15, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Even if it doesn’t make anything up, it won’t be as strong as something you write after thinking through the issues.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jun 15, 2025ChatGPTCriticizes“Charlie made it up, in order to make my brief more persuasive.”open
r/biglaw · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeValues“It’s much better than using the auto model (typically defaults to gpt) or selecting gpt”open
r/biglaw · Jul 23, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The legacy models have advanced far enough that they do a much better job of understanding what you’re requesting than Harvey does.”open
r/biglaw · Jul 23, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude wipes the floor with OpenAI and Harvey when it comes to the legal field.”open
r/legaltechJul 21, 2026 to Jul 23, 20262 voices · 1 like · 0 dislike
“Most big laws firms bill from $600-$1200 (jr associate to senior partner) per hour so paying a 100k license fee for legal ai is a no brainer assuming adoption is there to save time.”
r/legaltech · Jul 23, 2026HarveyNeutralThe author explains that Westlaw bills through because searches are metered by matter, while flat per-seat AI tools lack a per-matter record, and suggests routing AI use through one logged channel that requires a matter number. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 21, 2026HarveyValues“Most big laws firms bill from $600-$1200 (jr associate to senior partner) per hour so paying a 100k license fee for legal ai is a no brainer assuming adoption is there to save time.”open
r/LawyertalkJul 21, 20262 voices · 0 like · 2 dislike
“In the one case the client incorporated the changes in redline and mentioned that they were from Westlaw AI so I checked the citations and found a couple were inaccurate or misleading and (gently) told her that.”
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 21, 2026Westlaw AICriticizes“In the one case the client incorporated the changes in redline and mentioned that they were from Westlaw AI so I checked the citations and found a couple were inaccurate or misleading and (gently) told her that.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Jul 21, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“It was a catastrophic mix of accuracy paired with utterly nonsensical alterations, making those alterations difficult to identify.”open
r/legaltechJul 16, 2026 to Jul 19, 20265 voices · 3 like · 0 dislike
“That plus zero retention (prompts and outputs aren't stored or used for training, and Anthropic never sees them) is most of the enterprise privacy tier, on pay-as-you-go.”
r/legaltech · Jul 19, 2026ClaudeNeutralThe attorneys build their own systems and plan to keep using Claude Projects and Cowork through Bedrock. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 19, 2026ClaudeValues“That plus zero retention (prompts and outputs aren't stored or used for training, and Anthropic never sees them) is most of the enterprise privacy tier, on pay-as-you-go.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 19, 2026ClaudeMixedRecommends the best cloud model available (Claude via Bedrock) over local models to minimize hallucinations, though even Opus needs about 17 review-fix iterations on a demand letter. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Jul 16, 2026ClaudeValues“Turns out not hard at all. Bedrock is great.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 16, 2026GeminiValues“My five person team typically stays below $75/mo.”open
r/paralegalJul 19, 20263 voices · 1 like · 1 dislike
r/paralegal · Jul 19, 2026ClaudeMixed“I don't recommend cowork for a law firm, but client record safety isn't the reason.”open
r/paralegal · Jul 19, 2026ClaudeValues“You can have closed AI systems that are in the cloud. Claude is one of those systems.”open
r/paralegal · Jul 19, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I did some quick research and it looks like Cowork is specifically excluded from HIPAA compliance even if the atty has a business enterprise account.”open
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“I haven't done a full calculation but I I'd estimate that that $20 a month plan gives you literally thousands of dollars of claude usage at pay-as-you-go prices.”
“ChatGPT, Claude, etc., can be incredibly useful tools—but like any tool, AI has its limitations, and using it to prepare a request for legal assistance can sometimes create more problems than it solves.”
“A New Mexico high court found that a murder appeal was improperly affected by fabricated testimony from ChatGPT, highlighting the risks of AI in legal situations.”
“If so, I demand your Bar Number because you offered negligent advice, like that and not to use Copilot, which I recently did, cross-checked by two more AIs to construct and file a complaint, so maybe I'm familiar with law, just a bit.”
“Imagine hiring a veteran lawyer with 30+ years of experience, only for him to submit 6 completely fabricated court cases in federal court because he trusted ChatGPT…”
“Imagine hiring a veteran lawyer with 30+ years of experience, only for him to submit 6 completely fabricated court cases in federal court because he trusted ChatGPT…”
“Yes I’ve used ChatGPT to write a brief for me, but I checked every single cite to verify (1) the case existed, and (2) it was a correct recitation of what the case said.”
“Mike Clancy, the general secretary of the trade union Prospect (UK) has seen union members raise workplace grievances using misleading legal advice produced by ChatGPT.”
“Saved a fortune on legal fees around a complex intercontinental move - don’t need no immigration advisor when you’ve got a bot to dredge up and fill in forms for you - all accepted, I might add.”
“Just suggested a director in my company check a question about a specific form with the legal department rather than with ChatGPT, since predictive models haven't passed the bar exam.”
ChatGPTCriticizesThe author reported a lawyer to the bar for filings with misleading precedents invented by ChatGPT and for feeding client data into AI. (summary, not a quote)open
HarveyValues
