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Zack Shapiro
@zackbshapiro
Managing Partner @rainsllp. AI-Enabled Corporate Lawyer, Head of Policy @bitcoinpolicy, ex-@DavisPolk, @YaleLawSch, @WilliamsCollege
Brooklyn, NY Katılım Nisan 2021
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Gosh, I really hope Toor has a good lawyer (that's not just Claude). There must be bars/AGs across the country that are going to want to take action against people giving (horrible) advice like the below, if the proposed New York UPL law is any indication.
For some non-ruinous advice about vibe-coded contracts, check out this article by my associate @StagBadd
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Nav Toor@heynavtoor
🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now write legal contracts like NDAs, freelance agreements, and LLC paperwork better than $800/hour corporate lawyers. Here are 12 prompts that replace $15,000 in legal bills: (Save this before it disappears)
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@ashutoshprakas Yes of course. I’m not writing to convince the author, I’m writing for his audience.
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@zackbshapiro These are all just tricks for engagement.
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I am once again reminding you that the below is *not* what good legal prompts to Claude look like.
You need to be extremely detailed and specific about the output that you want, not ask it roleplay as a Skadden associate . . .
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Nav Toor@heynavtoor
🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now write legal contracts like NDAs, freelance agreements, and LLC paperwork better than $800/hour corporate lawyers. Here are 12 prompts that replace $15,000 in legal bills: (Save this before it disappears)
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I wrote about the errors I consistently see when using AI tools to draft contracts. Curious what patterns the other lawyers out there have noticed and how you plan for them/correct them
Adam Griffith@StagBadd
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Some good practical advice from @StagBadd for startup founders that are tempted to DIY legal contracts with AI:
Adam Griffith@StagBadd
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@Fundamentals21m @zackbshapiro Meme power at a measly 7 is an insult that will not stand.
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handed me a mountain of data from their pods & tweets and we made Maxi Matchup analytics for the madness! Here are the Podconf bracket matchups! #MaxiMadness2026 #bitcoincomeback Still awaiting play-in results
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Today on Block & Order, @zackbshapiro, Founder of @rainsllp, joins us to discuss how AI is reshaping law firms, the risks to big law’s business model, and why judgment and creativity matter more than ever. Watch now:
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Please shill me your best steelman arguments for why legal AI wrappers add value:
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@zackbshapiro @RSilversteinBTC Direct quote from Anthropic “What it does NOT cover: Claude Free, Pro, or Max plans — including the web, desktop, or mobile apps — are not ZDR-eligible. Claude for Work and Claude for Enterprise product interfaces are also not ZDR-eligible, except for Claude Code when negotiated
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@zackbshapiro @RSilversteinBTC Anthropic does NOT offer ZDR at this point unless you get it with a wrapper like Spellbook, etc.
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@0xDrSpectra And none of that is possible from frontier models?
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@zackbshapiro because lawyers pay for speed, risk framing, audit trails, and workflow glue
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@zackbshapiro The most well written article I've read in a long time. Thanks for sharing this @zackbshapiro !
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Coming soon to an AmLaw 100 law firm near you:
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Software engineers are the happiest people on Earth now. They pay $100/month for Claude Code to do the work. Their employer pays them $10,000/month for the results. $9,900 profit for sipping coffee and talking to AI. The funniest part? Not a single dev with a full-time job will ever admit this publicly What a time to be alive.
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I use ChatGPT and Claude to develop templates and "modify" existing work all the time. They're great at it.
I dont see how an AI wrapper is needed to "work off your existing corpus of docs". That statement is patently ludicrous and false.
I also ask Claude/GPT to tell me whether my template or certain terms in a document are "market" regularly. Don't need a wrapper for that either.
These AI wrapper people are just making all of this shit up. The frontier models can do all of this already just fine. And even if they couldn't...I don't see how a wrapper could *add* that sort of intelligence to them. That's just not how it works, a wrapper can't make AI more intelligent. All they really end up doing is adding retrieval noise.
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Pretty interesting argument on why ChatGPT and Claude won't replace all the vertical AI tools.
In law specifically, it would actually slow you down. Lawyers have to read and understand every word in a document, and it's actually faster to work from pre-built templates.
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I asked @scottastevenson if ChatGPT and Claude are going to replace all vertical AI tools: "Lawyer's don't actually draft anything from scratch. Especially contracts. They want to start with a trusted precedent that they understand inside out. If they use ChatGPT and it outputs the whole contract, they have to review every single word of that, and make sure they understand it all, completely. That’s very time consuming. And ChatGPT is not great at modifying existing work or building on your existing library. We have a few features in @SpellbookLegal where you can start with the precedents that you’re familiar with, and we’ll modify those. You can start with a sales agreement and say “Make this GDPR-compliant,” and we’ll surgically make those edits for you. We also have a feature called Library, where we have your whole history of all the deals you’ve ever worked on, and use that to influence the output of Spellbook. Working off of your existing corpus of docs as a lawyer is really, really important. And ChatGPT doesn’t do that super well. Lawyers also want things built into their existing workflow. I think the chat interface is great, but it’s still the terminal UI of AI. And I don’t think chat is the be all and end all. We've just built a lot of unique user experiences that would just never fit inside the shape of ChatGPT. For instance, one thing you can do in Spellbook is compare it to the market. If you're signing a commercial lease in Manhattan, you can say “Compare this to the average commercial lease in Manhattan and tell me what’s not normal.” And then you can dig into all the data that we’ve collected in real time, from millions of contracts, and explore that through this visual interface that has nothing to do with chat. It’s very, very distanced from that. There's a huge number of experiences that people want that don’t fit in a chat box."
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@conner_xyz Things like "better evals," "better outcomes," and "network effects" sound great, but why will legal AI wrappers be uniquely situated to do this vs. frontier models?
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If we’re talking pure wrappers, the game is to optimize an agent for a niche. It’s going to be hard to keep an edge if you go too broad. You’ve got to niche down. A handful will do it.
If everything is in play, proprietary content is key: better evals, better outcomes when combined with agent reasoning, outputs are easier to verify, you can train your own models.
Bigger picture, the best of the best will play higher order games, creating network effects; capturing market data, personal context, specialized integrations, and make compliance easy.
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@adzcp1 I'm specifically talking about products like Harvey/Legora/Spellbook. I don't doubt the utility of deterministic harnesses for specific use cases.
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@zackbshapiro For the broader market place, Claude competence doesn’t scale. It’s going to be a long time before the boarder market knows how to use Claude to capture the value proper SaaS deployments can. Claude is a calculator. Only as smart as your deployment of it
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@zackbshapiro If you have to ask, you don't understand the space deeply enough
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@zackbshapiro @TurnerNovak Before ChatGPT, lawyers often started with precedents and templates, not a blank Word page. AI delegation doesn’t mean lawyers should now just fire up a blank ChatGPT page to reinvent the wheel. Wrappers or not, I think that’s another matter.
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