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The legal AI directory · 2026

Legal AI tools, reviewed properly.

Honest, detailed reviews of the tools law firms actually use — research, drafting, contract review, diligence, litigation and verification. No hype, no affiliate noise.

General AI

ChatGPT

The general-purpose assistant most lawyers try first

★★★★★ 4.7Freemium / paid
General AI

Claude

A general assistant known for long documents and careful writing

★★★★★ 4.7Freemium / paid
General AI

Gemini

Google's assistant, tightly integrated with Docs, Gmail and the rest of Workspace

★★★★☆ 4.4Freemium / paid
Legal research

CoCounsel

Thomson Reuters' legal AI assistant (from the Casetext team) for research, document review and drafting grounded in trusted legal content.

★★★★★ 4.6Paid (enterprise)
Legal research

Lexis+ AI / Protégé

LexisNexis' AI layer over its research platform, with conversational search, summarisation and drafting linked to its citator.

★★★★☆ 4.5Paid (enterprise)
Legal research

vLex Vincent AI

vLex's research assistant, strong on multi-jurisdictional and comparative material.

★★★★☆ 4.4Paid
Legal platform

Harvey

A legal AI platform built for large firms, with workflows across research, drafting and diligence and firm-specific knowledge.

★★★★★ 4.6Paid (enterprise)
Legal platform

Legora

A collaborative legal AI workspace (formerly Leya) with tabular review and Word-based drafting.

★★★★☆ 4.5Paid (enterprise)
Contract drafting

Spellbook

Drafts and suggests clauses inside Microsoft Word, tuned to commercial drafting.

★★★★☆ 4.5Paid
Contract review

Robin AI

Contract review and negotiation support with clause suggestions and a repository.

★★★★☆ 4.4Paid
Due diligence

Luminance

AI for contract analysis and due diligence

★★★★☆ 4.4Paid (enterprise)
Due diligence

Kira

Long-standing contract analysis for diligence, extracting and classifying clauses at scale.

★★★★☆ 4.2Paid (enterprise)
Litigation

Clearbrief

Checks a brief against the record: it links every factual assertion to the evidence and flags unsupported statements.

★★★★★ 4.6Paid
Legal research

Paxton AI

Research and drafting assistant with citations across US law.

★★★★☆ 4.3Freemium / paid
Legal research

Alexi

AI research assistant producing memos with citations and links to sources.

★★★★☆ 4.2Paid
Legal research

Midpage

Research and citation-checking, with a focus on accuracy and quotable passages.

★★★★☆ 4.3Paid
eDiscovery

Relativity aiR

AI for review and eDiscovery built into Relativity, with review acceleration and summarisation.

★★★★☆ 4.3Paid (enterprise)
eDiscovery

Everlaw

Cloud eDiscovery with AI-assisted review, clustering and a strong collaboration layer.

★★★★☆ 4.4Paid (enterprise)
Verification

LexGPT Harness

Our own system: a plain-English method, rules and checklists that make AI-assisted legal work verifiable before it reaches a client or a court.

★★★★★ 4.9Free book / $99
General AI

Microsoft 365 Copilot

AI woven through Word, Outlook, Teams and Excel

★★★★☆ 4.3Paid (per user)
Enterprise AI

Cohere

Enterprise language models (Command, Embed, Rerank) with retrieval, built for controlled deployments.

★★★★☆ 4.4Enterprise / API
Legal research

Perplexity

Answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources

★★★★☆ 4.3Freemium / paid
Contract drafting

Definely

Helps you understand and navigate defined terms and cross-references in complex contracts, inside Word.

★★★★☆ 4.3Paid
Contract drafting

DraftWise

Contract drafting and review with firm knowledge, precedent comparison and negotiation history.

★★★★☆ 4.4Paid (enterprise)
Contract review

LawGeex

Automated contract review against your playbook, flagging clauses that fall outside policy.

★★★★☆ 4.1Paid (enterprise)
Contract lifecycle

Ironclad

Contract lifecycle management with AI-assisted review, workflows and a searchable repository.

★★★★☆ 4.4Paid (enterprise)
Contract lifecycle

DocuSign

E-signature and CLM with AI-assisted agreement analysis and a searchable repository.

★★★★☆ 4.3Paid
Practice management

Clio (Duo)

Practice management for smaller firms, with an AI assistant (Duo) for drafting, summaries and matter questions.

★★★★☆ 4.3Paid
Practice management

Smokeball

Practice management with automatic time capture and AI drafting for small firms.

★★★★☆ 4.2Paid
Case management

Filevine

Case management for litigation teams, with AI for document review and demand drafting.

★★★★☆ 4.2Paid
Litigation drafting

EvenUp

Generates demand packages for personal-injury claims from medical records and case documents.

★★★★☆ 4.3Paid
Contract drafting

Wordsmith

AI drafting inside Word for commercial contracts, turning instructions into first drafts.

★★★★☆ 4.1Paid
Legal automation

Checkbox

No-code platform for building legal intake, advice and document workflows.

★★★★☆ 4.3Paid
Legal automation

Josef

Legal automation and Q&A bots for intake, document generation and internal help.

★★★★☆ 4.2Paid