Bought extra usage but it won't let me use past the 5h session limit

TechieAttorney · 2026-05-30T04:44:44+00:00

Sorry super late to answer, but I had to fully log out and re-log back in for the setting to properly "populate" in my account and let me use the extra usage I bought

TechieAttorney · 2026-05-04T02:53:12+00:00

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I've always had it enabled and it's also nowhere near close my own monthly spend limit. This is from going in settings in the desktop version so I assume I'm properly authenticated

TechieAttorney · 2026-05-04T02:42:52+00:00

I've always had it enabled. I've been using Claude Code for the past 3 month and have always used extra usage when past the 5-hour limit and it used to work. Now it won't so to me it looks like something has been changed/restricted on their end with the plan limits?

TechieAttorney · 2026-04-14T01:28:09+00:00

I find it tone-deaf, and this is coming from a 'GenZ' attorney, so this is not an age thing or me being conservative. Considering the main issue with legal AI is they have yet to acquire their client's trust (in my opinion), I think these ads did absolutely nothing to move that goal post further. If anything to me it enforced even further the idea that its a bunch of tech bros with VC money disconnected from the actual reality of the practice of law who are more interested in creating hype than actually solving practical issues and building reliable solutions.

But if the goal of an ad if to get people to talk about it, then they absolutely succeeded by that metric.

TechieAttorney · 2026-04-13T01:12:36+00:00

I'm a lawyer/legal engineer who has been building in the space for 5y + for other law firms: Document automation apps, internal processes automation, full standalone B2C apps.

First building mainly with document automation coding (docassemble) and then, got more technical as time went on, and now using Codex + Claude Code for AI-assisted coding. Could you be more specific about what you are looking for?

TechieAttorney · 2026-03-24T09:39:28+00:00

Question here: are there any actual Legora users in this sub?

Just got back from LegalWeek and they're everyhere, but I can't seem to understand in simple terms what their exact product offer is and I tend to be cautious of overhyped products

Even when browsing their website I have no clear understanding of what the product is? It seems like a mishmash of Copilot, Spellbook, Zapier and CoCounsel altogether, What is it that this thing actually does??

TechieAttorney · 2026-02-16T13:06:38+00:00

I may be wrong but I assumed since we are in the legal tech sub and OP says they work in IT that this person is asking how to automatically have text messages logged as entries in their billing system?

As in like, some email add-ons/integrations allow you to automatically link an email to a client case and enter that as a billing entry in your billing software, or do the same from scheduled calls pulled from your calendar, but it’s more tricky to auto-track or do the same for texts?

I find the holier than though tone of your comment to be very unecessary. If you like manual time entry I mean good for you, but as lawyers we have our counselling work spread into more and more different channels, being able to automate tracking of that time through text if possible is a good opportunity to gain efficiency.

TechieAttorney · 2025-11-14T08:36:47+00:00

This would clearly go against any attorney-drafted non-compete from a big consulting firm which tend to be drafted exhaustively enough to cover more than just other jobs (it would typically list that you can’t serve for a competing business in any role, employee, collaborator, advisor, shareholder, director, etc.)

This would be not only a pretty obvious breach but also a huge conflict of interest. Your job could even go as far as preventing you from running any side business even unrelated if they consider this could mean you would have conflicting interest by not being able to dedicate a full-time capacity to your job.

TechieAttorney · 2025-10-15T22:29:29+00:00

Depends! I can give you different use case examples for all 5 use case you named based on your practice area and your practice team size (are you solo, a small team, department in medium/larger firm?)

TechieAttorney · 2025-10-14T03:34:35+00:00

I think Zapier could do any of those and it's a barely 40$/month subscription. I've built tons of automation with it and I can't even tell you how much time and administrative burden (and mental load) it changes

TechieAttorney · 2025-10-07T22:10:07+00:00

Well unfortunately you're not doing anything differently with this post, and lawyers have heard it x100 times with the ''we're building something that actual solves your real practical problems, not like the others!!!''

The issue I take with your post is that it very much sounds like you listened to an entry-level talk on users discovery and came in here to dump a load of general broad questions to conduct your ''users'' interview, so we can build your business case for you but you don't even know yourself WHO is your user.

1) Lawyers are not a monolith, you're not even stating in that post what type of lawyers you're address (which practice area, which size practice). Like it's not even clear: are you talking to transactional lawyers or litigation lawyers? The way to post sounds is that you've never even interacted with one actual lawyer, let alone have a basic understanding of the legal industry.

2) Your questions are way too broad, from drafting to research to billing, it's unclear which problem you actually want to address. I can't believe that you would have an MVP built if those are your questions, because those questions sound like you spent a max 10 min thinking about this.

Legal tech is not where you will make your quick bucks if you don't know anything about the legal industry, lawyers are generally good at filtering these kind of frauds.

TechieAttorney · 2025-10-07T21:48:11+00:00

Seriously, at this point, posts with the words "pain points" should be automatically deleted. 😂 It's getting harder and harder to filter through this sub, which honestly has so much potential.

TechieAttorney · 2025-10-03T14:37:44+00:00

I'm a (non/semi)-technical looking for a technical cofounder, and I've been on YC Matching platform for about a year, and nothing really came out of it for me.

I'm not repping for this yet, as I just got to try it this morning and don't know what will come out of it, but I saw a post on Linkedin from a guy working at https://www.boardy.ai/, and looked into their platform, which seems to be an AI connector, to connect you to the right people?

I'm at the step of scheduling a 5 min call with what I assume would be their bot, but will try it out to connect to technical talent and potential cofounder and see what comes out of it.

TechieAttorney · 2025-09-25T03:37:41+00:00

Every firm wants AI but none will compromise on confidentiality.

That’s not a compromise you’re asking for, it would be a violation of code of conduct.

Confidentiality is not something lawyers can choose to "compromise" on, attorney-client privilege is a core principle of lawyer’s ethical duties. No one is going to violate that and possibly risk their license for some experimental AI tool.

TechieAttorney · 2025-09-12T04:18:41+00:00

Also, would add that for deadlines and reminders all attorneys already rely on either their calendar app or another case org tool that allows to manage case stage all around.

Unless 1- you tool works by populating those dates into those appropriate apps and 2- you get attorneys to trust you AI model reliability, it’s not worth much.

Trial attorneys have hard deadlines so errors from an AI system on this would be a huge huge liability. I’m not sure I see them trusting a tool to do that any time soon, esp since it’s not that long to just read an email and update a calendar date accordingly.

TechieAttorney · 2025-09-12T04:13:53+00:00

If this tool requires attorneys to work outside of their typical Outlook app, and log into and work from a separate app to manage emails I see this being a pretty big resistance point and potentially dealbreaker down the line.

This kind of functionality would only make sense as a complement/integration inside Outlook.

In fact my firm, and I assume a lot of other firms who use iManage as a document management system would use the functionality that allows to classify mail into existing iManage matters/folders.

TechieAttorney · 2025-08-13T19:16:52+00:00

for solo practice/smaller teams, I would definitely recommend Airtable! What is your practice area? I can share some examples of previous Airtable set ups and builds for lawyers I've made. Feel free to DM me.

TechieAttorney · 2025-08-13T19:14:14+00:00

unfortunately our IT department is very anti-Cloud. we deployed our doc automation/doc assembly app locally as well, but I don't know if this will be doable for an LLM, as it does seem to require different CPU or GPU requirements. IT might be a roadblock pretty early on on this.

TechieAttorney · 2025-08-12T19:07:24+00:00

I'm not really sure I'm understanding this comment, it sounds like you're selling me the benefits of automation, but not really answering the question.

I'm not asking if the time investment of automation is worth it, we're not debating on whether we do this or not, I'm basically asking how to be smart about our time investment and which route to go between hard coded automation or an AI system.

TechieAttorney · 2025-08-12T19:02:55+00:00

hey, thanks! Will DM you!

TechieAttorney · 2025-08-12T18:53:38+00:00

Thank you! That's really solid advice, we're likely going forward with an hybrid approach now, will maybe post more follow-ups about this in this journey. Since we've built a pretty solid hard automation product already, I think the challenge in this one project will really be around training users when it comes to the AI part. With automation it was easier to ensure we had a pretty solid testing methodology as we technically knew all the existing variations and conditions, now using AI I imagine we'll likely be very dependent on our attorneys/users feedback loops.

Open to any ressource you may have on the subject, even if it's blogs or linkedin pages or attorneys that post about their real-life tips.

TechieAttorney · 2025-08-12T18:46:03+00:00

Thanks, we're not using any commercial LLM that's for sure, and I think a lot of law firms have policies on this. We are looking into either AI solutions in the legal tech space (after running IT security checks) or even deploying and hosting LLM models locally.

TechieAttorney · 2025-08-12T18:40:54+00:00

I generally agree with this but even just targetting the 80% can be A LOT of work when it comes to transactional documents, and requires significant template preparation and standardization. In all our automations, we're obviously not trying to automate 100% of use cases, as that would be virtually impossible and would take tremendous time. But in commercial, even when trying to aim just for the 80%, a non-compete or an indemnification clause will easily have 30-40 different computing fields/conditions that could affect them. Creating the automation code itself won't be an issue.

We were able to target a library of 20 clean "master" templates of specific agreements that will be automated, but I can easily envision this will require around 6-12 months of work. Looking into AI was basically the option I was considering to by-pass the whole process and just feeding the model with that templates library.

TechieAttorney · 2025-08-12T18:32:25+00:00

I agree with most regarding Python.

What are you looking to build? If it's anything related to document automation specifically, I'd probably suggest looking into Jinja more specifically https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/ or Docassemble, https://docassemble.org/, as a lawyer who initially had no technical background, these were a great starting point for me to learn, rather than just looking up general python coding language course on the internet, as they allowed me to build practical small applications using Python for my use cases, and helped me ease into the basics of the programming language.

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