Tag: legal-tech
All the articles with the tag "legal-tech".
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Vertical or Horizontal: The Open Question I Can't Answer
After a year of testing both, I still cannot definitively answer the most basic question in legal AI: should lawyers use general-purpose tools like Claude, or specialized legal AI SaaS like Harvey? Here's what I've learned, and where I'm still uncertain.
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The Three Fake Moats Vertical Legal AI Companies Are Defending
Vertical legal AI companies have built their pitch around three competitive moats: industry expertise, information asymmetry, and training data. After reading their materials like a due diligence report, I don't think any of these moats actually exist.
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Anthropic's 12 Legal Plugins Were the Headline. The 20 Connectors Were the Story.
Every article about Anthropic's Claude For Legal led with the same number: twelve plugins. The plugins are real. But the lawyers paying attention should be looking at a different number: the twenty connectors that ship alongside them. Here's why.
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Anthropic Closed the Vertical-vs-Horizontal Question. I Should Have Seen It Coming.
I scheduled an article for June 8th admitting I couldn't decide whether lawyers should use general-purpose AI or vertical legal AI. Three days ago, Anthropic launched Claude For Legal. Here's how my view has moved—and why I should have seen it coming.