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Claude Sonnet 4.6, Now Live in 8rney

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now the default model across all 8rney workflows. Stronger legal reasoning, tighter citation grounding, and better-structured drafting output — at lower latency than its predecessor.

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ProductGPT-5.5, Now Live in 8rneyOpenAI's GPT-5.5 is now available as a selectable model in 8rney. Better instruction following, stronger multi-document synthesis, and more consistent output structure across long legal workflows.June 9, 2026 · Abhimanyu Dhull · 3 min read

ProductStudy Tools: 8rney for Law StudentsWe built a full student mode — Case Brief, Socratic Drill, IRAC Practice, Bar Prep, and seven more study tools — powered by the same AI engine as the professional platform, tuned to how law students actually learn.June 9, 2026 · Abhimanyu Dhull · 5 min read

CompanyHow We Built Student Mode: Architecture & Design DecisionsA look at the architecture behind 8rney's Student Mode — how we structured skill injection, profile personalisation, and session history without fragmenting the platform into separate products.June 9, 2026 · Abhimanyu Dhull · 7 min read

ResearchWhy Every Claim in 8rney Has to Cite Its SourceHallucinated case law is worse than no answer at all. Here's the architecture behind our citation engine and the design choices that make it hard for the model to guess.May 28, 2026 · Abhimanyu Dhull · 8 min read

ProductPractice Intelligence: Turning Your Firm's Patterns into PlaybooksThe best associates learn by watching partners. We built Playbooks to encode that transfer — deal benchmarks, clause libraries, escalation triggers — so it happens automatically.May 23, 2026 · Abhimanyu Dhull · 6 min read

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