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Legal Quants Weekly Digest — Week 42 (opens the original)
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TL;DRThe week’s clearest shift was that lawyer-built work left the community and shipped inside a vendor’s launch. On 18 September OpenAI released Astra for Law, and the launch coverage named LegalQuants among the groups whose community plugins ship with it. The mood was celebration. The analysis was mixed. One member asked whether Astra for Law is a config profile for lawyers rather than custom training, and another said it doesn’t seem like training and looks more like custom prompts and tooli
Legal Quants Weekly Digest — Week 41 (opens the original)
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TL;DRThe week’s clearest shift was that the argument moved from the model to the layer wrapped around it. Members spent the first days testing OpenAI’s Astra and Fable 5.1 and reported that scaffolding built for earlier models was ignored, or made no visible difference, while two litigators who had pushed both on hard motions said that for advocacy work at the top end the newest model is still the one to reach for. By midweek the harness was the commercial battleground. Harvey described model-ha
Legal Quants Weekly Digest — Week 40 (opens the original)
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TL;DRThis was the week the community’s build-versus-buy argument stopped being theoretical. On 2 September a French-qualified in-house lawyer, with approval in principle to run LQ.AI on a local model but no budget to maintain it, reported back from a sales call with Harvey and announced, with visible reluctance, that they would try it, and Legora too. Their summary of the position became the week’s most-repeated image: “Being an LQ in a company where you can’t build, I feel like having a Ferrari
Legal Quants Weekly Digest — Week 39 (opens the original)
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TL;DRA wedding speech kicked off a skill-sharing cascade on sounding less like AI — culminating in a deliberately-bad, archaic-German legal-writing skill built specifically to be a stylistic watermark no AI would generate.Last week’s 3M/ChatGPT expert-witness story got a real legal-theory workout: what makes AI-assisted argument-building disqualifying, contrasted against English rules that bar coaching witnesses at all.Thomson Reuters launched Thomson 1.0, its own in-house LLM — and the communit
Legal Quants Weekly Digest — Week 38 (opens the original)
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The week’s loudest argument started with eight multiple-choice questions. A member sat Harvey’s new “Legal Engineer” certification while, by his own account, driving a boat, and posted an honest review on LinkedIn afterward. What followed was two days of the community working out what a “legal engineer” actually is, whether their own LQ label means anything more than that, how hard they should talk about vendors in public without reading as adversarial, and, eventually, what they think they’re w
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