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Both leading AI court order trackers merged into a free, searchable explorer — 643 orders, organized by judge, with paywalled links replaced.

How we merged two overlapping court order trackers, enriched missing fields with Claude Haiku for a few cents, replaced 200 paywalled links with free CourtListener alternatives, and shipped a searchable explorer — all through conversational prompting with Claude Code.

Every other industry rewards productivity. The billable hour punishes it. AI is forcing that contradiction into the open.

Anthropic launched Claude for Legal with 12 practice-area plugins and 20+ MCP connectors — positioning Claude as the hub that legal tech plugs into, not just the model underneath it.

Neal Katyal's TED talk about using Harvey AI to prepare for the Supreme Court tariffs case drew backlash for its tone — but the underlying use case mirrors how chess engines transformed competitive preparation, and it's available to any litigator today.

Adapt Karpathy's viral LLM Wiki pattern for legal education — drop in your outlines, let Claude Code build a cross-referenced knowledge base, and publish it as a browsable site with Quartz.

Harvey ($11B) and Legora ($5.6B) have a combined $17B valuation, but both are built on foundation models that just launched their own legal platforms — with Harvey as a connector inside Claude.

A former Latham associate vibe-coded a Harvey clone in two weeks and open-sourced it. The tech wasn't the hard part — and that's the point. Here's what mid-size firms should learn about what legal AI vendors actually sell.

DOJ's new FOCUS initiative wants better data-driven fraud cases. But it keeps its two best enforcement channels — whistleblower tips and data miner analytics — in separate silos. The real opportunity is connecting them.

How a five-attorney litigation boutique can use Claude, Gemini, and smart model routing to match BigLaw's AI firepower at a fraction of the cost