OpenAI Launches Astra for Law: GPT-6 Configured for Legal Work With a 230-Million-URL Index

My take: OpenAI launched Astra for Law on September 17: a version of GPT-6 Astra configured for legal work, with a search index of more than 230 million URLs covering U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and administrative decisions. In internal evaluations, it reached 54% correctness on legal questions, compared to 38.7% for the same model using general web search, a 40% relative improvement.

It is not a lawyer. But it is a tool that can drastically reduce the time a legal professional spends on baseline research, and that has real economic value. Firms could redirect billable hours toward higher-value work. Twenty-six partner plugins from companies like Relativity, Clio, and iManage launched alongside the model.

A context note: OpenAI ran the correctness evaluation on its own product. As always with these launches, independent validation will show how much holds in real-world cases.

If you are a lawyer, paralegal, consultant, or firm owner, have you already evaluated which part of your team's research work could be accelerated with a tool like this?