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points by jackschultz 1 day ago | 0 comments
Friend works for a fairly large law firm on the business running side. She told me how they pay a ton for Harvey and yet, they don't even have a claude for her and those not doing legal work. They think Harvey is great and have no clue that all it does is wrap around models and have safety checks like this repo does. Some of it might be yes, that there's legal work around who gets blamed, but I see mentions of Harvey and it's a joke at what the legal industry does. I see law firms as having no clue on how things work other than paying giant contracts to places that like to schmooze them because that's what they like to do as well.
[–] lp92 1 day ago
Law firms are paying because the founders were former lawyers and know what the customers want and the firms trust that pedigree. As for why they pay Harvy, its about risk exposure and management. Same reason companies pay for Security appliances and vendors rather than trying to roll their own.
[–] kaycey2022 1 day ago
What risk would Harvey the company manage for them? Security appliances work, and vendors in security deal with tech that works. What is Harvey making certain in this tech?
[–] freejazz 1 day ago
Harvey has significantly more than "safety checks like this repo does" and if you don't realize that, you genuinely have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

>I see law firms as having no clue on how things work other than paying giant contracts to places that like to schmooze them because that's what they like to do as well.

Okay, yeah. Going with my second option. It's really the misplaced confidence that does it for me.