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The Wrong Benchmark for Legal Search

Teams pick embedding models for contracts and case law using a benchmark that measures Wikipedia retrieval, not legal recall. Here's why the small-vs-large-vs-Voyage-Law-2 debate is told in the wrong units.

S.J. Nam, Ph.D Jun 24, 2026 7 min read