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Re: Claude for Legal

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Post by troupo »

droidjj wrote: post #7

As a lawyer, I'm excited about this, but there are two roadblocks that I'm not sure how Anthropic will navigate: (1) For non-lawyers who use these skills/connectors/whatchamacallits to try to get legal advice, their communications are not protected by attorney-client privilege. This will absolutely bite some people in the ass. (2) If a lawyer uses this with confidential client information (which, to the uninitiated,…

> As a lawyer, I'm excited about this,

As in "I'm excited to win a lot of money dismantling hallucinated quotations and invalid assumptions"?

Re: Claude for Legal

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Post by romanovcode »

awongh wrote: post #16

How does this compare to the other legal tech ai startup products? Harvey is valued at $11b

Same as it compared against "Build your website without any code" startups 2 months ago. Now they are dropping like flies.

A life of every thin wrapper company will be the same. Anthropic/OpenAI will just cut the middle-man as soon as they see potential.

Re: Claude for Legal

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Post by dbbk »

ricardobeat wrote: post #23

> for the legal workflows we see most I'm a bit bothered by this line. Does it mean this is based on customer's sessions? Are they entitled to build knowledge bases for every profession, topic and workflow in the world using customer data?

And in what country? They know that the law is different in every country right?

Re: Claude for Legal

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Post by shivekkhurana »

droidjj wrote: post #7

As a lawyer, I'm excited about this, but there are two roadblocks that I'm not sure how Anthropic will navigate: (1) For non-lawyers who use these skills/connectors/whatchamacallits to try to get legal advice, their communications are not protected by attorney-client privilege. This will absolutely bite some people in the ass. (2) If a lawyer uses this with confidential client information (which, to the uninitiated,…

Slightly related: Amazon’s bedrock has better privacy guarantees. This seems to be skills that can be added to Desktop app, which can connect to Bedrock for inference.

Re: Claude for Legal

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

miki123211 wrote: post #63
bryant wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation for #1 - https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2026/03/united-states-v-he... > Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York — addressing “a question of first impression nationwide” — ruled that written exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. Much more to it than this one-liner that I pulled out, bu…

In the US, are Google queries about the law considered attorney-client privilege? What about library records? Browser history? Google Maps / Uber / car travel history (when traveling to an attorney's office)? If somebody Googles "best attorney for murder NYC" a day after a murder is committed but before any case is filed against them (so they clearly had some reason to expect that case), could that be used as evidenc…

I'm not sure if you were actually asking the question but regardless the answer is that all of those absolutely can and are regularly used as evidence

Re: Claude for Legal

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

bethekidyouwant wrote: post #66
unstyledcontent wrote: post #10

Just remember that your AI chat history is not protected like attorney client privilege and can be used as evidence against you in court. If you talk to a lawyer and they use AI, those chats are privileged.

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I'm not sure if you're joking but there's actually active court cases right now where they have done just that

Just a few of the perps: Hisham Abugharbieh (Florida student murders), Jonathan Rinderknecht (Palisades Fire arson), Phoenix Ikner (FSU shooter), Ryan Schaefer (Missouri State vandalism)

There's also that thing involving somebody I think he used to be in the NFL and he was using ChatGPT to try to hide the body of his wife or something iirc

Digital evidence is huge for the last couple of decades and this is no different...

Also there was somebody who was just recently sentenced to life in prison for AI CSAM

But yeah I'm sure "this is just not gonna happen." lol

Re: Claude for Legal

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Post by abc123abc123 »

bryant wrote: post #11
droidjj wrote: post #7

As a lawyer, I'm excited about this, but there are two roadblocks that I'm not sure how Anthropic will navigate: (1) For non-lawyers who use these skills/connectors/whatchamacallits to try to get legal advice, their communications are not protected by attorney-client privilege. This will absolutely bite some people in the ass. (2) If a lawyer uses this with confidential client information (which, to the uninitiated,…

Citation for #1 - https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2026/03/united-states-v-he... > Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York — addressing “a question of first impression nationwide” — ruled that written exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. Much more to it than this one-liner that I pulled out, bu…

Seems like a fair trade off if I would not be able to afford a lawyer. I'd take the "AI but not 100% confidential" any time compared with no help at all.
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