72 pointsby noleary6 hours ago14 comments
  • reverius422 hours ago
    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 if used with a local LLM and not a service provider, this might protect attorney-client privilege?

    • robertritz14 minutes ago
      United States v. Heppner mentioned a public chatbot service. If a law firm (or specialized provider) offered a chatbot using their own servers and hosted the traces and other data on the law firms own servers it would almost certainly be protected. But another case would need to happen to determine that.

      But that only applies for clients using the chatbot. If a lawyer is using the LLM it is definitely protected. No different if a lawyer searches something on Google or Lexis Nexis. The search itself is protected. I guess you could debate metadata but the content surely is protected.

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  • kostareloan hour ago
    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!

  • kernalix73 hours ago
    Self-hostable legal AI as open source is a useful direction in principle. Hard to tell how mature the actual implementation is though, the repo is pretty fresh and the marketing site is doing a lot of heavy lifting compared to what's in the code right now. Will be more interesting to revisit in a few weeks.
    • 0xbadcafebeean hour ago
      Rule of tech products: the nicer the splash page is, the worse the product is
      • superfrank12 minutes ago
        Apple would like a word...
  • syntaxing4 hours ago
    I always wondered if Justin Kan’s Atrium closed door prematurely by just 2-3 years. It would have been cool to see a “technology” driven law firm and how it would have adjusted to LLMs.
  • sandreas4 hours ago
    Cool project. What a pity it's not mikefoss.com, would match the soundex of Mike Ross from suits even better ;-)
  • campers2 hours ago
    Interested to try it out! Some feedback on the homepage there's nothing above the fold, or directly below that says its a Legal AI platform. I would like a legal AI tool, but I'm not familiar with the space don't know what Harvey or Legora are. It was only the hackernews title "Mike: open-source legal AI" that gave the context.
  • re_spond5 hours ago
    Cool initiative. Is this fully separate from "legal Mike", the Dutch company that provides a similar solution, https://legalmike.ai/product/ ?

    That may be confusing on the naming.

    • iot_devs2 hours ago
      I thought it was named after the characters of Suits: Harvey and Mike
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  • wps4 hours ago
    This website is actually gorgeous. What do you call this style?
    • NamlchakKhandro4 hours ago
      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.
      • anon3738393 hours ago
        Hm, I don't think this looks like Anthropic's design style. Anthropic is kind of doing a Chobanicore + Corporate Memphis design system that I personally find kind of creepy. But the website here just feels fresh and pleasant.
      • rvz2 hours ago
        > Apple is Dead, Long Live Anthropic" style.

        Except that the font that it is using is EB Garamond and Apple was heavily using the Garamond font in the mid-1980s to 2000s.

        Given that almost everyone is copying both, it is now garbage.

    • anon3738394 hours ago
      Agreed; that's a beautiful site. The main design style apart from minimalism that I notice is glassmorphism. Well, that and a very well chosen Monet to set the tone.
  • scosman5 hours ago
    2 commits, 8 hours old....
    • georgespenceran hour ago
      OP's Github profile looks very fishy.
    • albertgoeswoof4 hours ago
      And yet 130 stars
      • dalemhurley2 hours ago
        Amazing work, 130 stars is quite high for a niche product within hours!
      • m4rkuskk3 hours ago
        No way they got that many stars in that little time. buy.fans must run a special right now.
  • higginsniggins2 hours ago
    Beautiful website.
  • albertgoeswoof4 hours ago
    How does this work with docx files? The screenshots only show pdfs?
  • kleiba2an hour ago
    I'm so tired of having to sign up to some new service even just to try it out.
    • robertritz9 minutes ago
      So open up your new product to every random agent and griefer on the internet? Why would you do that?
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