Claude for Lawyers

Claude is good at the part of legal work that eats your evening: reading long documents carefully and writing the first draft. It is not a lawyer, it does not give legal advice, and it does not replace your judgment. What it does is take the hours out of first-pass review, clause comparison and document drafting, so that your time goes to the parts that actually need a lawyer.

The catch is that Claude out of the box is a generalist. Ask it to review a contract and it will summarise politely instead of flagging what is missing. A skill file fixes that: it is a page of instructions you paste into Claude once, and from then on Claude works to a legal brief rather than a chat prompt.

Three things legal teams actually use it for

1. First-pass contract review

Paste a contract and Claude works through it clause by clause against your position: what is missing, what is unusual for this contract type, what the counterparty has quietly widened. It produces a review note with clause references, not a summary. You still make every call. It just means the call is made in twenty minutes instead of two hours.

Skills for this: Marcus - Contract Review, Marco - Contract Reviewer, Vera - Legal Document Reviewer.

2. Drafting from a position, not from a template

NDAs, DPAs, engagement letters, side letters and amendment drafts. You give Claude the commercial position and the risk you will and will not take, and it drafts to that, with alternates for the clauses that will be negotiated. Then you edit, which is much faster than starting from a blank page or from someone else's template.

Skills for this: Victoria - Legal Assistant, Leon - In-House Counsel.

3. Turning legal into something the business will read

The memo that explains why the deal cannot be structured that way, in language a commercial director will act on. Regulatory changes translated into what the company has to change on Monday. Policy documents that people finish reading.

Skills for this: Aurelius - General Counsel & Legal Ops Director, Ottoline - Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Counsel, Sorcha - Legal Ops Manager.

How a skill file works

  1. Buy and download the file. It is a plain .md text file, a few kilobytes, delivered by email within minutes.
  2. Open Claude at claude.ai, go to Settings → Custom Instructions.
  3. Open the file in any text editor, copy everything, paste it in, save.
  4. Start a conversation. Claude now works as that specialist until you swap the file out.

Setup takes under five minutes and needs no technical knowledge. Nothing is installed and there is no subscription.

Where to browse

All Claude skills for legal teams →
Legal and finance prompt packs →

Questions we get asked

Is this legal advice?

No. These are writing and analysis tools. Nothing produced by Claude with one of our skill files is legal advice, and none of it should be relied on without review by a qualified lawyer. You remain responsible for the work product and for your professional obligations.

Is client data safe to paste into Claude?

That depends on your firm's policy and your Claude plan, not on us. Check your own confidentiality obligations and Anthropic's current data-handling terms before pasting anything client-identifying. Many teams work with redacted or anonymised documents for exactly this reason.

Which Claude plan do I need?

Custom Instructions are available on the free plan, so a skill file works there. Long contracts are easier on a paid plan because of the larger context window and higher usage limits.

Does it work with ChatGPT?

Yes. The files are plain text instructions, and any assistant that accepts custom instructions will take them, including ChatGPT and Gemini. They are written and tested against Claude.

What if it does not work for me?

30-day money-back guarantee, full refund to your original payment method, no questions asked. See our Refund policy.

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