claude-for-legal

Grade an IRAC essay for structure, issue-spotting, rule accuracy, analysis depth, and organization. Does NOT rewrite the essay or show a model answer; tracks patterns across sessions. Use when the user says "grade my IRAC", "check my essay", or "I wrote this, give me feedback".

Fast "is this a problem?" answer for the quick Slack question — pattern-matches against your calibration. Use when the user says "is this a problem", "quick question", "can we do X", "do I need legal review for", "sanity check", or pastes a PM's question that needs a same-minute fine / needs a look / hold call.

Full launch review against your framework and risk calibration. Use when the user says "review this launch", "legal review for [feature]", "can we ship this", "what are the legal issues with [product]", or references a launch tracker ticket or PRD that needs a category-by-category review memo.

Check open leaves for deadline alerts and required decisions. Surfaces only the leaves that require an action and explains why — not a status board. Use weekly, or whenever the attorney needs to know which leaves have upcoming designation, certification, or exhaustion deadlines.

Issue, refresh, release, or report on legal holds — drafts the hold notice as .docx, updates legal_hold fields in _log.yaml, and calendars the next refresh. Use when the user says "issue a hold", "refresh hold", "release hold", or asks for a portfolio-wide hold status report.

Structural feedback on a legal writing draft (memo, brief, paper, exam essay) — organization, analysis depth, clarity, citation form. NEVER rewrites the draft. Use when the user says "feedback on my memo", "read my draft", or "critique my brief".

Add a new leave to the leave register with the minimum information needed to start tracking deadlines. Use when an employee goes on leave and you want the tracker to watch designation, certification, and exhaustion clocks from day one.

Review marketing copy for claims that need substantiation, reframing, or cutting. Use when the user says "review this marketing copy", "check these claims", "can we say this", "is this puffery or a problem", or pastes marketing content (landing pages, emails, ads, taglines).

Build the material contracts disclosure schedule from diligence findings, applying the purchase agreement's Material Contract definition and formatting per the agreement's schedule format. Use when user says "build the contracts schedule", "disclosure schedule", "schedule 3.X", "material contracts list", or when drafting disclosure schedules.

Deep briefing on one matter — current posture, what's changed, next deadline, open questions, and a risk re-assessment check, ready before a GC update or outside counsel call. Use when the user says "brief me on [matter]", "where are we on [matter]", or needs a read on a specific matter.

Close a matter — capture outcome, final exposure, and lessons, then archive it out of the active portfolio without deleting the record. Use when the user wants to close a matter, says "[matter] is done", or needs to record a settlement, dismissal, judgment, withdrawal, or consolidation outcome.

Intake a new matter — uniform questions covering identification, conflicts, source, risk triage, materiality, outside counsel, owners, legal hold, and key dates; writes matter.md and history.md and appends a structured row to _log.yaml. Use when the user says "new matter", "intake this matter", or wants to bring a new matter into the portfolio.

Append a dated event to a matter's history file and refresh the log row — captures new developments, status changes, risk re-assessments, deadline shifts, and settlement authority changes. Use when the user wants to log an update on a matter, note a development, or record a status change against the portfolio.

Manage matter workspaces — new, list, switch, close, or detach (practice-level). File-management logic for keeping one client or engagement's context separate from every other. Use when working across multiple clients or matters, when the user says "new matter", "switch matter", "list matters", "close matter", or when any substantive skill needs to know which matter it's working in.

Manage matter workspaces for multi-client practices — create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter. Use when the user wants to create a new matter workspace, switch the active matter, list matters, archive a matter, or work at practice-level only without an active matter.

Manage matter workspaces — create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter. Use in multi-client private practice to keep one client's context separate from another, or when a substantive skill needs to know which matter it's working in.

Manage matter workspaces — new, list, switch, close, or detach (practice- level). Creates, lists, switches, closes, and detaches the active matter so context from one client engagement never leaks into another. Use when a multi-client practitioner says "new matter", "switch matter", "list my matters", "close this matter", or needs to manage which matter is active.

Manage matter workspaces — create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter so multi-client practitioners keep one client's context separate from every other. Read by any substantive skill that needs to know what matter it's working in. Use when user says "new matter", "switch matter", "list matters", "close matter", or wants to work at practice-level only.

Manage matter workspaces — create, list, switch, close, or detach (practice-level). Keeps one client or engagement's context separate from every other for multi-client practitioners. Use when the user wants to open a new matter, switch matters, list matters, close/archive a matter, or work at practice-level only.

Manage matter workspaces — new, list, switch, close, or detach (practice-level). Use when working across multiple clients or matters in private practice and you need to create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter so context from one engagement doesn't leak into another.