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Claude for Legal - Anthropic's AI Plugin Collection for Legal Practice

·2026.05.16 15:55

Key point

Anthropic has released a bundle of Claude plugins and agents for legal practice.

Details

Anthropic has released Claude for Legal. It's a legal-specific plugin and agent suite covering commercial contracts, privacy, employment, M&A, litigation, regulation, AI governance, intellectual property, and legal education.

  • Can be deployed on Claude Cowork, Claude Code, and the Managed Agents API.
  • Includes 70+ Named Agents that run tasks like Vendor Agreement Reviewer, NDA Triager, Termination Reviewer, DSAR Responder, and Claim Chart Builder as slash commands.
  • A cold-start interview learns a team's playbooks, escalation rules, and house style, reflecting them in a CLAUDE.md profile.
  • 20+ MCP connectors link Slack, Google Drive, Box, and Ironclad, DocuSign, iManage, Everlaw, CourtListener, Trellis, and more.
  • Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Legal plugin integrates with Westlaw Deep Research to produce citation reports on case law, statutes, and regulations across up to 3 US jurisdictions.
  • Citations based on research connectors carry source tags, while citations relying only on model knowledge get a [verify] flag, distinguishing reliability levels.
  • The Word skill is tailored for tracked changes editing, and the Excel skill is tailored for multi-sheet .xlsx output.
  • legal-builder-hub handles hidden content scanning, injection detection, allowlisting, license and freshness gating, rescanning, and audit logs.
  • Also includes Socratic Drill for law students, IRAC grading, bar exam prep, flashcards, exam prediction, and the legal-clinic plugin.

All outputs are drafts for attorney review and do not represent Anthropic's legal position. Licensed under Apache-2.0.

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