Claude for Legal
Use this skill when the user asks for legal workflow help: contract review, legal triage, policy/regulatory analysis, legal research planning, compliance checklists, litigation support, legal ops trackers, law-student practice, or clinic-style intake/drafting.
Source basis: Anthropic claude-for-legal at anthropics/claude-for-legal commit 9cecd91b0f26f732d18315afc3c9bb5ff99e0fbb, Apache-2.0. This OMK skill is a compact adaptation, not a vendored copy of upstream prompts.
Non-negotiables
- Treat outputs as AI-assisted drafts for qualified attorney review, not legal advice or legal conclusions.
- Do not file, send, sign, threaten, accept, reject, waive rights, or communicate externally without an explicit user gate and attorney-review note.
- Identify jurisdiction, governing law, audience, role of the user, deadline, and source set. If unknown and material, ask; if proceeding, state assumptions.
- For current law, citations, statutes, regulations, court rules, agency guidance, or case law, verify with authoritative/current sources before relying. If not verified, label citations and conclusions as needing verification.
- Never invent citations, docket facts, quotes, party facts, deadlines, or regulatory text.
- Preserve privilege/confidentiality boundaries; avoid putting sensitive facts into external tools unless user has configured and approved them.
- If user is not a lawyer, structure output as an attorney-facing brief with plain-English risk explanations and clear questions for counsel.
Core workflow
- Classify lane: choose practice area and workflow. Load
references/workflow-catalog.md when mapping is not obvious.
- Intake: collect only missing material facts: role, jurisdiction, document/source corpus, transaction/matter context, risk appetite, deadline, intended audience, and requested output.
- Source preflight: record what sources were actually checked. Prefer official/primary sources; use legal research connectors/MCPs only if configured. Otherwise browse authoritative sources or mark
[verify].
- Analyze conservatively: separate facts, assumptions, legal issues, risk level, source-backed points, open questions, and attorney decisions.
- Gate consequential action: give draft language/checklist/memo, then list what must be reviewed before use.
Default output skeleton
# AI-assisted legal workflow draft — attorney review required
- Role/audience:
- Jurisdiction/governing law:
- Scope:
- Sources checked:
- Verification gaps:
- Assumptions:
## Executive summary
## Key issues / risk flags
## Analysis
## Draft / checklist / table
## Open questions for counsel
## Pre-use review gate
Risk language
Use cautious labels: Blocking, High, Medium, Low, Information needed. Explain each label in business/plain-English terms. Avoid saying a position is “legal,” “compliant,” “privileged,” or “safe” unless verified and still framed for attorney judgment.
Citation rules
- Attach source/provenance to every legal authority or factual extraction from documents.
- Distinguish primary authority, secondary source, model reasoning, and user-provided facts.
- If a citation comes from model knowledge or an unverified web result, tag it
[verify] and place it in verification gaps.
- Quote only short excerpts needed for analysis; prefer paraphrase and pinpoint citations.
Practice profile pattern
When a matter will continue across turns, create or update a concise practice/matter profile in the working docs, not in global memory unless explicitly asked. Include: client/company context, role, jurisdiction footprint, escalation contacts, risk posture, house style, source locations, and current open questions. Do not store secrets.
1---2name: claude-for-legal3description: Legal workflow drafting, triage, review, research planning, legal operations, law-student or clinic support, and legal AI governance adapted from Anthropic claude-for-legal. Use for commercial, privacy, product, corporate, employment, regulatory, AI governance, IP, litigation, legal-clinic, and law-student tasks. Draft-only; attorney review and current source verification required.4license: MIT5---67# Claude for Legal89Use this skill when the user asks for legal workflow help: contract review, legal triage, policy/regulatory analysis, legal research planning, compliance checklists, litigation support, legal ops trackers, law-student practice, or clinic-style intake/drafting.1011Source basis: Anthropic `claude-for-legal` at `anthropics/claude-for-legal` commit `9cecd91b0f26f732d18315afc3c9bb5ff99e0fbb`, Apache-2.0. This OMK skill is a compact adaptation, not a vendored copy of upstream prompts.1213## Non-negotiables1415- Treat outputs as AI-assisted drafts for qualified attorney review, not legal advice or legal conclusions.16- Do not file, send, sign, threaten, accept, reject, waive rights, or communicate externally without an explicit user gate and attorney-review note.17- Identify jurisdiction, governing law, audience, role of the user, deadline, and source set. If unknown and material, ask; if proceeding, state assumptions.18- For current law, citations, statutes, regulations, court rules, agency guidance, or case law, verify with authoritative/current sources before relying. If not verified, label citations and conclusions as needing verification.19- Never invent citations, docket facts, quotes, party facts, deadlines, or regulatory text.20- Preserve privilege/confidentiality boundaries; avoid putting sensitive facts into external tools unless user has configured and approved them.21- If user is not a lawyer, structure output as an attorney-facing brief with plain-English risk explanations and clear questions for counsel.2223## Core workflow24251. **Classify lane**: choose practice area and workflow. Load `references/workflow-catalog.md` when mapping is not obvious.262. **Intake**: collect only missing material facts: role, jurisdiction, document/source corpus, transaction/matter context, risk appetite, deadline, intended audience, and requested output.273. **Source preflight**: record what sources were actually checked. Prefer official/primary sources; use legal research connectors/MCPs only if configured. Otherwise browse authoritative sources or mark `[verify]`.284. **Analyze conservatively**: separate facts, assumptions, legal issues, risk level, source-backed points, open questions, and attorney decisions.295. **Gate consequential action**: give draft language/checklist/memo, then list what must be reviewed before use.3031## Default output skeleton3233```md34# AI-assisted legal workflow draft — attorney review required3536- Role/audience:37- Jurisdiction/governing law:38- Scope:39- Sources checked:40- Verification gaps:41- Assumptions:4243## Executive summary44## Key issues / risk flags45## Analysis46## Draft / checklist / table47## Open questions for counsel48## Pre-use review gate49```5051## Risk language5253Use cautious labels: `Blocking`, `High`, `Medium`, `Low`, `Information needed`. Explain each label in business/plain-English terms. Avoid saying a position is “legal,” “compliant,” “privileged,” or “safe” unless verified and still framed for attorney judgment.5455## Citation rules5657- Attach source/provenance to every legal authority or factual extraction from documents.58- Distinguish primary authority, secondary source, model reasoning, and user-provided facts.59- If a citation comes from model knowledge or an unverified web result, tag it `[verify]` and place it in verification gaps.60- Quote only short excerpts needed for analysis; prefer paraphrase and pinpoint citations.6162## Practice profile pattern6364When a matter will continue across turns, create or update a concise practice/matter profile in the working docs, not in global memory unless explicitly asked. Include: client/company context, role, jurisdiction footprint, escalation contacts, risk posture, house style, source locations, and current open questions. Do not store secrets.
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