Claude for Legal Guide

Claude for Legal is Anthropic’s set of tools for legal work, launched on May 12, 2026. It adds practice-area plugins and more than 20 connectors to legal software, so Claude can work inside the tools lawyers already use.

Claude can draft, review, and research faster. A lawyer still signs off on every word.

• Commercial Legal, for vendor agreements and contract review
• Corporate Legal
• Employment Legal
• Privacy Legal
• Product Legal
• Regulatory Legal
• AI Governance Legal
• IP Legal
• Litigation Legal
• Law Student, including bar exam study
• Legal Clinic
• Legal Builder Hub, for community skills

Contracts and signing

Definely, Docusign, Ironclad

Documents and deal rooms

iManage, NetDocuments, Box, Datasite

E-discovery

Consilio, Everlaw, Relativity

Research

Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal, Midpage, Trellis, Legal Data Hunter

Legal AI

Harvey, Solve Intelligence

Public service

Free Law Project, Courtroom5, Descrybe, BoardWise

Most connectors need your own account or license with that provider, such as a CoCounsel Legal license.

• Use a paid Claude plan; on Enterprise, ask your admin to enable the legal connectors and plugins
• Install plugins in Claude Cowork or Claude Code, or from Anthropic’s claude-for-legal repository on GitHub
• Add connectors from the Claude connectors directory
• Run the plugin’s setup interview

Each plugin starts with a setup interview. Answer it carefully, because it shapes every later answer.

• Your standard positions and fallback terms
• Your risk tolerance
• Who to escalate to, and when
• Your house style and precedents

Review this vendor agreement against our playbook. List every clause that differs from our standard position, rate the risk, suggest redlines, and flag anything that needs a partner’s review.

• Ask for research with cited sources through a research connector
• Summarize depositions and build chronologies
• Draft first versions of memos and motions
• Organize e-discovery findings by issue

• Map new regulations to your current policies
• Draft privacy notices and data processing checklists
• Review AI use cases against your AI governance policy

The Law Student plugin helps with study plans, practice questions, and bar exam review. Qualifying legal aid clinics, public defenders, and nonprofit legal services can get discounted pricing through Claude for Nonprofits.

AI can invent cases and quotes. Anthropic’s own legal team has written about catching Claude making up a citation.

• Open and read every case and source Claude cites
• Check quotes word for word
• Confirm the law is current in your jurisdiction

• Follow your firm’s AI policy and your bar’s ethics guidance
• Use an Enterprise or approved workspace for client matters
• Let admins control which connectors are enabled
• Make sure connector permissions match your existing access rules
• Review third-party skills before you rely on them