What students said on Reddit
Someone on r/LawSchool asked which of three study tools to use: Quimbee, Lexplug or Claude. The replies covered how students actually use them, and why most still say read the case. This page is LexCases summarising a public Reddit discussion in our own words. It is not Reddit, no username appears here, and the students in the thread do not speak for us.
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The person who asked has since deleted their post, so we do not know who they were or why they asked. The replies are still up, and they are what this page summarises. We read every reply the page showed; a few nested replies were folded away and are not included.
Quimbee, Lexplug, or Claude?, on r/LawSchool, posted 17 August 2026.
What are people using to study these days?, on r/LawSchool, posted 27 October 2025.
The replies that went into detail did not pick one tool. They described a routine, and the tool was one part of it.
The longest reply described using all three in turn: read the case and write a rough brief, paste the case into a general AI assistant and ask for a brief, compare the two, then glance at a ready-made brief as a final check. Their view was that each tool has a different best use.
One student said Claude was useful for marking practice exams when professors give no feedback, as long as you feed it your notes and outline and know how to prompt it. They read every case and build their briefs from what is said in class.
Quimbee came up more for its videos and multiple-choice questions than for its briefs. One student keeps the subscription only for the questions.
One student found Lexplug's briefs more detailed, while saying plainly that it relies on AI.
One student who pays for all three uses an AI assistant to talk ideas through and check they are following, but still says to read the cases for the full picture.
The thread was not a list of recommendations. Some of its strongest replies were reasons to be careful.
Nearly every reply that recommended a tool also said to read the cases. One was blunter: if you cannot read cases in first year, law school might not be for you.
One student said their grade went from a C to a B+ when they stopped relying on AI. They still use it; they just do not lean on it.
One reply made a point the others missed. A casebook prints the part of a judgment that matters for the topic you are on. Ask a tool for the full case and you get a lot that has nothing to do with this week's topic.
One reply asked why not check your work against the research database your school already pays for, which has its own summaries and headnotes, and which nobody looks at suspiciously.
Even the student who used three tools in a row ended on this: “LLMs are not a substitute for doing the work yourself.” Skip the slog through cases, they said, and you miss the practice for the slog through problem questions on exam day.
A year earlier, someone returning from a leave of absence asked what people study with now. The replies were short: read the cases and watch the Quimbee videos, ask your librarian which study aid libraries your school already subscribes to, make flashcards. One student pastes their outline into ChatGPT and has it ask them questions and hypotheticals. In their words, “it’s imperfect so you have to use it critically”, and catching its mistakes is itself a sign you know the material.
We build LexCases, so read this part with that in mind. It starts from a problem in plain English, returns cases that have each been through a separate check, and shows how a doctrine was built case by case. It does not write your brief or what a case means in your notes, so the advice in this thread still stands: read the case.