Mike: open-source legal AI • Hacker News Board

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by debarshri » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 7:29 AM UTC

reverius42 wrote: post #17

Presumably this is an issue for the commercial competitors too, but in light of the recent court ruling in United States v. Heppner that AI chatbots can break attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, what kinds of things can this be safely used for? (I would assume you want to avoid sending anything with client-confidential information in it to a service provider like OpenAI or Anthropic.) Potentially…

you can have dedicated deployment per customer per case, segregating it logically. I have seen this happen in larger law firms. It could be based on groups, teams, partners etc.

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by NikolaosC » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC

reverius42 wrote: post #17

Presumably this is an issue for the commercial competitors too, but in light of the recent court ruling in United States v. Heppner that AI chatbots can break attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, what kinds of things can this be safely used for? (I would assume you want to avoid sending anything with client-confidential information in it to a service provider like OpenAI or Anthropic.) Potentially…

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Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by kleiba2 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC

robertritz wrote: post #30

kleiba2 wrote: post #26

I'm so tired of having to sign up to some new service even just to try it out.

So open up your new product to every random agent and griefer on the internet? Why would you do that?

No, I mean just to try it out.

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by rib3ye » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 8:00 AM UTC

NamlchakKhandro wrote: post #10

wps wrote: post #6

This website is actually gorgeous. What do you call this style?

It's called "We just discovered Claude Code and so we think Anthropic is Amazing so everything they do is godlike and thus their design choices must also be god like. Apple is Dead, Long Live Anthropic" style.

I think you mean this

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/plugins/...

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by KingOfCoders » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 8:10 AM UTC

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #9

scosman wrote: post #3

2 commits, 8 hours old....

And yet 130 stars

Not saying they did, but buying a 100 starts is cheap.

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by timdim » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 8:12 AM UTC

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #5

How does this work with docx files? The screenshots only show pdfs?

LibreOffice for DOC/DOCX to PDF conversion

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by dahcryn » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 8:32 AM UTC

kostarelo wrote: post #25

For a moment I thought it was some open-source LLM trained on legal. It's not, it's a web app wrapping major LLM providers and streamlining legal workflows, uploading documents, and having the LLM providers interact with them. Cool project regardless!

yeah I thought that was the USP of Legora and Harvey, so this is not the same thing at all, just surfing the brand recognition

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by victorbjorklund » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 8:58 AM UTC

reverius42 wrote: post #17

Presumably this is an issue for the commercial competitors too, but in light of the recent court ruling in United States v. Heppner that AI chatbots can break attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, what kinds of things can this be safely used for? (I would assume you want to avoid sending anything with client-confidential information in it to a service provider like OpenAI or Anthropic.) Potentially…

It’s not different from googling. If a non-lawyer googles legal advice (”how to give yourself an alibi after murdering someone”) it will not be protected by attorney-client privilege. Same if you ask OpenAI.

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by llagerlof » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 9:07 AM UTC

victorbjorklund wrote: post #38

reverius42 wrote: post #17

Presumably this is an issue for the commercial competitors too, but in light of the recent court ruling in United States v. Heppner that AI chatbots can break attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, what kinds of things can this be safely used for? (I would assume you want to avoid sending anything with client-confidential information in it to a service provider like OpenAI or Anthropic.) Potentially…

It’s not different from googling. If a non-lawyer googles legal advice (”how to give yourself an alibi after murdering someone”) it will not be protected by attorney-client privilege. Same if you ask OpenAI.

This. I am telling this since the boom of generative AI and promptly being ignored.

Re: Mike: open-source legal AI

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Post by trilogic » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 9:08 AM UTC

Why don´t you put a direct link that redirect users to some proprietary AI providers instead of making it look fancy. (If I ask whatever AI model will produce same outputs/forms, structured as you wish, and even locally). To qualify as some wrapper you need to add a layer of creativity by you on top of the existing ones.