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Claude for the Legal Industry

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  • Legal work runs on a specific technology stack: contract lifecycle systems, research platforms, document management, e-discovery, data rooms, firm-specific precedents, and much more. Claude now connects to all of it through several key building blocks. First, MCP connectors bring your legal work (the documents, communications, and records tied to specific matters) into Claude. Secondly, practice-area plugins package the tasks that lawyers run most often. And finally, because both are built on open protocols, firms and in-house teams can customize Claude to match the way they actually practice. (View Highlight)
  • Today we’re introducing 20+ new MCP connectors that link Claude to the software the legal industry already relies on, and 12 new plugins tailored to specific legal work and practice areas. And finally, we’re partnering with the Free Law Project, the Justice Technology Association, and others working to put legal help within reach of people who can’t currently access it. (View Highlight)
  • Claude meets legal teams where they are, working directly inside Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint while carrying context across all four apps. A redline finished in Word doesn’t need to be re-explained when it becomes a cover note in Outlook, a closing checklist in Excel, or a board summary in PowerPoint. (View Highlight)
  • In Word, Claude skills—reusable instructions that encode a team’s playbooks and standards—handle drafting, redlining, and clause-by-clause comparisons against those playbooks, tracking every change and explaining the reasoning behind it. They also take on the rote work in between every turn: scrubbing internal comments before a draft goes to the counterparty, running a final formatting check on an execution copy, and pulling fallback language from approved playbooks. (View Highlight)
  • In Outlook, Claude triages incoming matter work: flagging contract requests, drafting responses and cover notes, and scheduling follow-ups so nothing pile ups. (View Highlight)
  • In Claude Cowork, the same connectors and plugins are available for work that spans many documents: triaging a batch of contracts, clearing a product feature for launch, and drafting a note on regulatory developments for the board. Scheduled tasks can automate recurring work such as weekly regulatory update sweeps or intake triage. (View Highlight)
  • And with Projects, matter teams get a persistent workspace where precedents and prior drafts are retained across every conversation. (View Highlight)
  • Contract lifecycle and drafting
    • Definely, which gives live, deterministic access to contract structure for review: resolve definitions, validate cross-references, map dependencies, and run structural diffs to see how edits propagate across an agreement;
    • Docusign, which connects Claude to your agreement data so you can quickly surface key terms like renewal dates and obligations, and orchestrate agreement workflows across the contract lifecycle, from drafting through signature and post signature management;
    • Ironclad, which lets Claude access your contract repository and workflows and ask questions about contracts in plain language, with results automatically scoped to each user’s permissions. (View Highlight)
  • Fiduciary-grade workflows:
    • Thomson Reuters, which connects Claude to CoCounsel Legal, a fiduciary-grade system for end-to-end drafting, research, review, and validation across all major practice areas, serving as an AI assistant for high-stakes legal work, grounded in Westlaw primary law, Practical Law guidance, KeyCite, and your own documents, with transparent and verifiable outputs. (View Highlight)
  • Legal research and case law:
    • Legal Data Hunter, which gives Claude access to the world’s fastest growing legal corpus: 31M+ documents from 160+ jurisdictions, including EU consolidated law, case law from supreme and constitutional courts, and official doctrine;
    • Midpage, which connects Claude to a database of case law for complex legal research, opinion review, and work product, with everything hyperlinked to real sources for easy verification;
    • Trellis, which gives Claude direct access to the largest state trial-court dataset in the US, including dockets, rulings, verdicts, and filings, for judge and opposing-counsel analytics and motion drafting. (View Highlight)
  • Legal AI assistants:
    • Harvey, which brings Harvey’s legal intelligence into Claude, supporting general legal inquiries, analysis over Vault projects, and research questions for select knowledge sources;
    • Solve Intelligence, which connects Claude to patent and non-patent literature, legal texts, SEP technical standards, and the open web for prior-art search, claim mapping, and patent drafting. (View Highlight)
  • Public service
    • BoardWise, which guides licensed professionals facing state board matters: helping them understand deadlines, navigate their situation, and draft structured response letters tailored to their jurisdiction;
    • Courtroom5, which provides legal guidance to the roughly 80% of civil litigants who appear in court without an attorney, with jurisdiction-aware case intake, deadline calculation, and next-step guidance across all 50 states;
    • Descrybe, which gives Claude legal-research tools for working with primary law: search cases by concept or citation, check treatment status, find citing authorities, and verify quoted language;
    • Free Law Project, which connects Claude to CourtListener’s millions of US court opinions, PACER dockets, judge profiles, oral arguments, and citation data. (View Highlight)
  • Practice-area plugins
    Legal work looks different depending on the seat you’re in. We’re releasing 12 practice-area plugins (download them from the Legal Marketplace, here), each built around a specific legal role. (View Highlight)
  • Commercial Legal reviews vendor agreements and NDAs against your playbooks. When something needs to go up the chain, it routes the escalation with a summary the business side can actually read. (View Highlight)
  • Corporate Legal handles M&A: diligence across the data room, disclosure schedules, board consents, and the closing checklist. Customizable for board work, public-company governance, or entity compliance. (View Highlight)
  • Employment Legal covers hires, terminations, worker classification, leave deadlines, and investigations, and drafts policies with state-specific rules baked in. (View Highlight)
  • Privacy Legal reviews DPAs against your playbook, triages PIAs and DPIAs, gets DSAR responses out on statutory timelines, and flags where policy and actual practice don’t line up. (View Highlight)
  • Product Legal runs launch reviews against your internal framework, checks marketing claims for substantiation, and fields the risk questions that come in from across the business. (View Highlight)
  • Regulatory Legal watches for regulatory updates, filters to your materiality threshold, compares new rules against your policy library, and tracks gaps and comment deadlines. (View Highlight)
  • AI Governance Legal triages AI use cases against your governance tiers, runs impact assessments, reviews vendor AI terms, and can draft a starting AI policy if you don’t have one yet. (View Highlight)
  • IP Legal takes on trademark clearance and FTO triage, cease-and-desist letters (both directions), DMCA takedowns, open-source compliance, and invention disclosure screening. (View Highlight)
  • Litigation Legal picks up matter intake and portfolio tracking, legal holds, demand letters, subpoena triage, chronologies, depo prep, privilege logs, and brief drafting. (View Highlight)
  • Law Student does Socratic drilling, case briefs, IRAC grading, and bar prep with jurisdiction-specific distinctions. (View Highlight)
  • Legal Clinic manages client intake, deadline tracking, case memos, and the supervisor review queue. (View Highlight)
  • Legal Builder Hub finds and installs community-built legal skills from public registries, with a security review, license check, and freshness check on every install and update. (View Highlight)
  • Each agent template can be installed in Cowork or Claude Code with a click, and produces outputs that match institutional drafting standards. A subset of these (Commercial Legal, Corporate Legal, Litigation Legal, Product Legal, Litigation Legal) are also available as cookbooks that can be deployed as Managed Agents in the Claude Platform for programmatic use. Teams can layer on their own precedents and playbooks to customize the skills. (View Highlight)
  • Every legal organization works differently, and no single set of plugins can cover every practice. The plugin and skill ecosystem are open protocols, and early contributors including Box, Legal Quants, Lawve AI, and Thomson Reuters have already shipped skills, plugins, and style conventions of their own. Any partner can submit connectors and skills through the Directory. (View Highlight)
  • Legal services are out of reach for many people and small businesses, and the gap is widening. We’re working with the Free Law Project, Justice Technology Association and other legal aid and Public Service organizations to help make legal services more affordable and available.
    Qualifying legal aid clinics, public defenders, and nonprofit legal services organizations can gain access to significantly discounted pricing through the Claude for Nonprofits program. Free and low-cost tools from BoardWise, Courtroom5, Descrybe, and Free Law Project are available to Claude users via MCP connectors as well.

    “Most people don’t know they have legal rights until it’s too late to use them. Claude can now meet them where they are — in the moment they’re scared and searching for answers.” - Sonja Ebron, CEO & Co-Founder, Courtroom5 (View Highlight)

  • Trusted across the legal industry
    Firms and in-house teams have moved from testing Claude to running their practice on it — and the legal tools they rely on are increasingly built on Claude too. At our Briefing: Enterprise Agents in February, Thomson Reuters showcased CoCounsel rebuilt on the Claude Agent SDK; with today’s release, that integration runs both ways. Harvey, Solve Intelligence, and others below are doing the same.
    These updates build on Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable publicly available model for legal reasoning and long-document work. (View Highlight)

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