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Lawyer seeks local AI for case files, faces model refusals

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A user on Reddit's r/LocalLLaMA subreddit is seeking advice on setting up a local, private AI system similar to NotebookLM for analyzing legal case files. They are experiencing slow performance and an unexpected refusal behavior from models like Qwen3.5 9B and gpt-oss-20b when using LM Studio with Big RAG. The models frequently cite copyright concerns instead of analyzing the user's own documents, leading to generic responses rather than accurate summaries with citations. AI

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Lawyer seeks local AI for case files, faces model refusals

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Ramucirumab ·

    Looking for a local "NotebookLM for lawyers" setup – what am I doing wrong?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hello everyone</p> <p>I am totally new to LocalLLMs and only used chatGPT/Claude/NotebookLM before. So bear with me 😃</p> <p>I'm an attorney and would like to analyze and summarize case files locally for privacy/confidentiality reasons.</p> <p>My…

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