Plugins Are Not Harnesses: A Practitioner&#x27;s Guide to Choosing Between Claude and LITT for Legal Work

By Sushant Shukla | May 13, 2026

Plugins Are Not Harnesses: A Practitioner's Guide to Choosing Between Claude and LITT for Legal Work

A walkthrough of why the smartest frontier model is not always the right tool for legal work, drawn from a documented exchange between Claude Opus 4.7 and a Singapore family-law memo.

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