Mike: open-source legal AI

scosman

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re_spond

Cool initiative. Is this fully separate from "legal Mike", the Dutch company that provides a similar solution, https://legalmike.ai/product/ ? That may be confusing on the naming.

albertgoeswoof

How does this work with docx files? The screenshots only show pdfs?

wps

This website is actually gorgeous. What do you call this style?

syntaxing

I always wondered if Justin Kan’s Atrium closed door prematurely by just 2-3 years. It would have been cool to see a “technology” driven law firm and how it would have adjusted to LLMs.

sandreas

Cool project. What a pity it's not mikefoss.com, would match the soundex of Mike Ross from suits even better ;-)

kernalix7

Self-hostable legal AI as open source is a useful direction in principle. Hard to tell how mature the actual implementation is though, the repo is pretty fresh and the marketing site is doing a lot of heavy lifting compared to what's in the code right now. Will be more interesting to revisit in a few weeks.

campers

Interested to try it out! Some feedback on the homepage there's nothing above the fold, or directly below that says its a Legal AI platform. I would like a legal AI tool, but I'm not familiar with the space don't know what Harvey or Legora are. It was only the hackernews title "Mike: open-source legal AI" that gave the context.

reverius42

Presumably this is an issue for the commercial competitors too, but in light of the recent court ruling in United States v. Heppner that AI chatbots can break attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, what kinds of things can this be safely used for? (I would assume you want to avoid sending anything with client-confidential information in it to a service provider like OpenAI or Anthropic.) Potentially if used with a local LLM and not a service provider, this might protect attorney-client privilege?

higginsniggins

Beautiful website.