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Robert Ambrogi
Personal blog · lawnext.comotherai
Robert Ambrogi writes LawSites, a personal blog at lawnext.com about ai. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Harvey AI raises $21M in a Series A round led by Sequoia”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Robert Ambrogi's LawNext posts as sources on legal-industry AI news, including Harvey AI's funding and law firm deals, AI hallucinations, and the ROSS shutdown.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Harvey AI raises $21M in a Series A round led by Sequoia2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-27
What Hacker News says?
I would expect some custom training was needed in order to address this highly specialized use case. There are 2 primary uses cases emerging where LLMs are proving advantageous. 1) Summarization --- where the results can be nebulous and it don't really much matter. For example, casual web search. 2) Research based on trial and error where the nebulous results will be subjected to thorough verification --- i.e. this…
Comment linking /2025/02/federal-judge-sanctions-morgan-morgan-attorneys-for-ai-generated-fake-cases-in-court-filing.html
on “Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects”Submitted Two More Cases of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions as a story · 47 points
HN discussionInteresting to note from this 2020 story (when ROSS shut down) that the company was founded in 2014 and went out of business in 2020: https://www.lawnext.com/2020/12/legal-research-company-ross-... The fact that it took until 2024 for the case to resolve shows how long the wheels of justice can take to turn!
Comment linking /2020/12/legal-research-company-ross-to-shut-down-under-pressure-of-thomson-reuters-lawsuit.html
on “Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US”Submitted Harvey AI raises $21M in a Series A round led by Sequoia as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYes, you can. But expect similar results. https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/ai-hallucinations-strike-aga...
Comment linking /2025/05/ai-hallucinations-strike-again-two-more-cases-where-lawyers-face-judicial-wrath-for-fake-citations.html
on “Agents for financial services and insurance”Submitted Lexis+ AI Is Generally Available for US Customers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah I dunno about that one lol. Open AI backed solution for Law, already has deals with some of the biggest law firms in the world. https://twitter.com/ai__pub/status/1644735555752853504 https://www.lawnext.com/2023/04/harvey-ai-raises-21m-in-a-se... Microsoft plans for Medicine https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/gpt-4...
Comment linking /2023/04/harvey-ai-raises-21m-in-a-series-a-round-led-by-sequoia.html
on “Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?”Submitted Filevine Intros Proprietary Doc Format to Become New Standard in Legal Industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt was “better than intern work, and meets the level of an experienced professional" Sorry, I have to disagree. It created a hefty report that is of questionable applicability to any specific location where the proposed facility might be built. In other words, the AI overlooked a very fundamental fact --- you can't just pick and choose building code requirements from across any jurisdiction that you find on the inte…
Comment linking /2025/02/federal-judge-sanctions-morgan-morgan-attorneys-for-ai-generated-fake-cases-in-court-filing.html
on “Experts were stunned by OpenAI Deep Research”Submitted Illinois Supreme Court Policy on Artificial Intelligence [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI didn't say test to mean just standardized tests lol. I meant that as problems you throw at it. Sure seem good enough at law that multiple of the biggest law firms have partnered with Open ai backed Harvey https://twitter.com/ai__pub/status/1644735555752853504 https://www.lawnext.com/2023/04/harvey-ai-raises-21m-in-a-se... and then there's what microsoft are doing with 4 in medicine. https://arstechnica.com/informa…
Comment linking /2023/04/harvey-ai-raises-21m-in-a-series-a-round-led-by-sequoia.html
on “Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images”Submitted LexisNexis enters the generative AI fray with limited release of new Lexis+ AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Legal Tech: VLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating a Global Legal Research Company as a story · 1 points
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