Why Legau isn’t ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot

Artificial intelligence has become a vital part of many industries, and legal work is no exception. Powerful AI tools are increasingly present in law firms and corporate legal departments, accelerating workflows and automating routine tasks. However, the use of AI in legal practice requires a cautious approach due to the unique complexities and risks involved in this field.

Legal professionals handle sensitive information, complex regulations, and documents that affect individuals, businesses, and judicial decisions. In other industries, an occasional mistake made by a general AI tool might be a minor inconvenience. In law, an incorrect AI-generated response can change the course of a case, damage client trust, and expose firms to legal liabilities. That is why the question is not whether AI can be used in legal settings, but how it should be deployed responsibly.

Challenges of generalist AI in legal work

Many popular AI tools available today, like ChatGPT or Copilot, are designed as generalists. These models handle a broad variety of topics and tasks but are not optimized for the specific demands of legal work. When applied to law, this approach creates several critical issues:

• Hallucinations and Factual Errors: General AI models sometimes produce answers that sound convincing but are factually incorrect or legally unfounded. These hallucinations carry serious risks, as a misinterpretation of laws or errors in contract language can lead to costly consequences.

• Inadequate Legal Terminology and Structure: Legal writing demands precision. Even a small misused word in a contract can create loopholes. Legal motions must follow strict procedural formats or risk rejection. Generalist AI tools often lack the finely tuned expertise to maintain this rigor.

• Security and Privacy Risks: Law firms work with highly confidential client data. Using AI systems without robust data protection and compliance mechanisms creates significant vulnerabilities.

• Output Quality and Practicality: Responses from general AI are often verbose, vague, or informal for legal contexts, meaning legal professionals spend extra time editing and refining outputs rather than gaining efficiency.

This demonstrates why speed or versatility alone does not qualify AI for legal practice. Consistency, security, and precision in outputs are essential.

Why specialized legal AI like Legau makes the difference

To solve these problems, AI solutions tailored specifically for the legal sector have been developed. Platforms like Legau recognize the unique needs of legal professionals. They go beyond simply adding legal databases to general AI models by embedding critical functionalities that address the real challenges legal teams face.

• Internal Validation Systems: Our platform incorporates multiple engineering layers that limit the scope, understand legal documents, and validate the accuracy of AI. This drastically reduces errors and builds greater trust in the outputs.

• Legal-Practice-Driven Prompts: Our AI is guided by prompts designed by our engineers and legal experts. We receive daily feedback from lawyers and continuously refine these prompts so that users don’t need to craft perfect instructions to get high-quality results. With our system, you can interact naturally, as if you were speaking with a colleague.

• Custom Vocabulary and Training: Our AI is trained by legal professionals working closely with AI experts, ensuring that terminology and writing style align with the standards lawyers expect for contracts, court filings, and legal advice.

• Security and Compliance Built-In: We never use our clients’ documents to train our models, and we only retain documents at a user’s request. From the beginning, we have embedded strict protocols that meet data protection regulations and confidentiality requirements, providing firms with assurance on privacy and compliance.

Practical benefits for lawyers using Legau

Adopting a specialized AI tool like Legau delivers concrete improvements in legal workflows:

• Faster, More Accurate Drafting: Lawyers can produce contracts, opinions, and pleadings more quickly with our Legau Assistant, which searches within their document management systems and creates new documents directly from that foundation.

• Reduced Rework: Lawyers experience less rework because our platform can draft any type of legal document based on past examples. They only need to provide the content, and our system takes care of the rest.

• Accelerated and Contextualized Research: Our platform helps lawyers access case law, doctrine, and regulations rapidly, delivering context-aware summaries that support deeper legal analysis without replacing human judgment.

• Enhanced Trust Through Security: Our platform applies strict security protocols and never uses client documents to train or improve our models. We rely exclusively on our knowledge and publicly available open knowledge.

• Seamless Workflow Integration: Our platform integrates smoothly with document management systems such as SharePoint, iManage, NetDocuments, Google Drive, and Dropbox. We are also open to new partnerships with additional DMS, CRM, or other tools that firms use.

AI as a strategic legal partner

More than just a productivity tool, AI platforms like Legau offer strategic value. They relieve legal teams of time-consuming routine work such as legal research preliminaries and document adjustments, freeing lawyers to focus on complex issues requiring their judgment and negotiation skills.

This shift helps firms manage deadlines more effectively, boost document quality, and lower error risks—strengthening client relationships and professional reputation. Rather than replacing legal expertise, Legau’s AI amplifies lawyers’ capabilities, helping them act where insight matters most.