OpenAI Launches Legal Tool

San FranciscoAstra for Law searches 230 million legal documents.

Law is the first profession OpenAI enters where practitioners carry personal liability.

Courts have sanctioned lawyers personally for filing hallucinated citations from earlier chatbots.

Small-firm practice in countries with no searchable case-law database may treat the US-trained model as authoritative.

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Hacker News leans favorable: launches Astra for Law: GPT-6 model with legal search index, 26 ecosystem plugins (Relativity, Clio), and confidential-client privacy controls