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Product updates, research notes, and perspectives on what AI can actually do for legal practice — without the hype.
OpenAI'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.
Abhimanyu Dhull
June 9, 2026
We 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.
Abhimanyu Dhull
June 9, 2026
A 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.
Abhimanyu Dhull
June 9, 2026
Hallucinated 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.
Abhimanyu Dhull
May 28, 2026
The best associates learn by watching partners. We built Playbooks to encode that transfer — deal benchmarks, clause libraries, escalation triggers — so it happens automatically.
Abhimanyu Dhull
May 23, 2026
See what it looks like when one agent holds the whole matter — research, drafting, review, and memory, all in one place.
