claude-for-legal
A suite of plugins for legal workflows
Claude for Legal is a comprehensive collection of Claude Code and Claude Cowork plugins that deliver AI-powered workflows for legal professionals across multiple practice areas including commercial, corporate, employment, privacy, litigation, IP, and regulatory law. Each plugin contains practice-specific skills (invoked via slash commands), scheduled agents for monitoring tasks, and MCP connectors to legal systems like Ironclad, iManage, Everlaw, and Westlaw. The plugins adapt to your firm's playbook through a cold-start interview that writes a practice profile, ensuring outputs align with your team's conventions and risk calibration while maintaining attorney-review guardrails on every deliverable.
Key Features
Use Cases
- 01Review vendor MSAs, NDAs, and SaaS agreements against your playbook with automatic escalation routing and redline memos
- 02Conduct M&A due diligence with tabular document reviews, disclosure schedule building, and closing checklist tracking
- 03Manage employment matters including termination risk review, worker classification, leave tracking, and internal investigations
- 04Handle privacy compliance with DSAR responses, DPA reviews, Privacy Impact Assessments, and GDPR DPIA determinations
- 05Monitor regulatory feeds for changes, diff updates against internal policies, and track remediation gaps
- 06Build patent claim charts, conduct trademark clearance screening, draft cease-and-desist letters, and manage IP portfolio deadlines
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claude-for-legal — FAQ
What is Claude for Legal?+
Claude for Legal is a suite of practice-area-specific plugins for Claude Code and Claude Cowork that provide legal workflow automation through skills (slash commands), scheduled monitoring agents, and connectors to legal systems. It covers commercial, corporate, employment, privacy, litigation, IP, regulatory, and AI governance work.
How do I install Claude for Legal plugins?+
For Claude Code, add the marketplace with '/plugin marketplace add <repo-path>', then install specific plugins like '/plugin install commercial-legal@claude-for-legal'. For Claude Cowork, open the Cowork tab, click Customize → Browse plugins, and install the desired practice-area plugins. After installation, run the cold-start interview (e.g. '/commercial-legal:cold-start-interview') to configure your practice profile.
Which Claude clients support these plugins?+
The plugins work in Claude Code, Claude Cowork (requires access), and Claude for Microsoft 365 (Word/Excel sidebar). Contract review skills output Word tracked changes, and diligence skills generate Excel workbooks when used in the Microsoft 365 add-in.
Do I need API keys or subscriptions for legal research tools?+
Yes, most legal-specific connectors require customer subscriptions: Ironclad, DocuSign CLM, iManage, Everlaw, Trellis, Descrybe, Solve Intelligence, and Thomson Reuters CoCounsel all need API keys from your account. CourtListener is public with an optional API key. The plugins strongly recommend connecting at least one research tool for citation verification.
Is Claude for Legal free to use?+
The plugins themselves are open-source under Apache 2.0, but you need a Claude subscription (Code or Cowork) to run them. Third-party legal system connectors require separate paid subscriptions from their vendors.
Are the outputs legal advice?+
No. Every output is explicitly a draft for attorney review, not legal advice or a legal conclusion. The plugins include guardrails like source attribution, conservative defaults on privilege, jurisdiction assumptions surfaced, and explicit gates before filing or sending anything. A lawyer must review, verify, and take professional responsibility for all work product.
How do I install claude-for-legal?+
Open the source repository on GitHub and follow its README. claude-for-legal is a plugin — MCP Agents Market links you directly to the official repo.
Is claude-for-legal free?+
claude-for-legal is an open-source project hosted on GitHub. Check the repository for its license and any usage requirements.