GUIDES
How to read these records
Short guides on comparing tools, questioning vendors about client data, reading a security page, running a trial, and leaving a product. They explain the records. They are not legal advice.
How to compare legal AI records
A reading order for the evidence on each tool page, and the questions the records are built to answer.
Updated September 15, 2026Confidentiality questions to ask a vendor
Questions a firm can put to a vendor, and which parts of a record help answer them.
Updated September 15, 2026Reading the price paths
What the recorded price models mean, and how to use them without a sales call.
Updated September 15, 2026How to read a training statement
The difference between a no-training commitment, a mixed statement, and an affirmative data-use statement, and why the wording matters.
Updated September 15, 2026Choosing between two similar tools
A method for deciding between products that look alike on paper, using the fields each record actually contains.
Updated September 15, 2026What to do when a vendor changes
How to use the observation date, the changelog, and the corrections process when a vendor's published position moves.
Updated September 15, 2026What a free trial actually tests
A trial can answer workflow questions. It rarely answers the data-handling questions a firm actually needs answered.
Updated September 20, 2026Who owns what the tool produces
Output ownership, export, and portability are three separate questions, and vendor pages often answer only the first.
Updated September 20, 2026Reading a vendor security page
Certifications, encryption claims, and data-location statements say different things, and only one of them is about your client data.
Updated September 20, 2026One tool or a whole suite
A single strong tool and a suite that covers more ground fail in different ways, and the records show which risk a firm is taking.
Updated September 20, 2026When not to buy a legal AI tool
Cases where the honest answer is to wait, and the facts in a record that point to them.
Updated September 20, 2026Leaving a legal AI tool
What to establish before cancelling, and why the export question is easier to answer before the subscription ends.
Updated September 20, 2026