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100 Use Cases

Legal AI Use Cases

Specific workflows and prompts for using Claude in your legal practice. Each use case includes step-by-step instructions and example prompts.

Compliance & Regulatory

5 use cases

Consumer & Access to Justice

5 use cases

Contract Intelligence & Analytics

8 use cases

Deep Research & Analytics

3 use cases

Document Automation & Generation

7 use cases

eDiscovery & Document Review

10 use cases

29.

Privilege Review Automation

Identify potentially privileged documents for human review and confirmation, reducing privilege review time by 60-75%.

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30.

Responsive Document Coding

Code documents for responsiveness based on defined criteria, achieving 70-85% reduction in coding time with consistent application.

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31.

Email Thread Visualization

Analyze email threads and map communication patterns, reducing email analysis time by 70-80%.

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32.

Legal Hold Automation

Assist with legal hold notice drafting and management workflows, reducing hold administration by 50-70%.

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33.

Litigation Outcome Prediction

Analyze case factors to inform outcome assessment, accelerating case evaluation and supporting settlement analysis.

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34.

Judge & Attorney Behavioral Analytics

Analyze available information about judges, attorneys, and jurisdictions to inform litigation strategy.

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35.

Discovery Response Automation

Draft discovery responses based on objection standards and case facts, reducing response drafting time by 60-75%.

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36.

Natural Language Discovery Queries

Search documents using natural language queries instead of Boolean operators, reducing search iteration time by 50-70%.

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37.

Structured Analytics Visualization

Analyze document sets and identify patterns for visualization, reducing pattern analysis time by 60-75%.

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38.

ESI Collection from Cloud Sources

Plan and document cloud ESI collection strategies across Microsoft 365, Slack, Google Workspace, and other platforms.

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Intellectual Property & Patents

5 use cases

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

10 use cases

44.

Discovery Document Review

Review documents for relevance, responsiveness, and privilege at scale, dramatically accelerating the litigation discovery process. Reduces review time by 60-80%.

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45.

ESI Management

Organize, categorize, and prepare electronically stored information for review, handling diverse file formats and email threading. Reduces processing complexity significantly.

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46.

Deposition Transcript Analysis

Analyze deposition transcripts to generate page-line summaries, identify key admissions and inconsistencies, and prepare cross-examination questions. Reduces transcript review time by 70-85%.

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47.

Cross-Examination Question Generation

Generate structured cross-examination questions based on witness testimony, documents, and case issues, with anticipated responses and follow-ups. Reduces cross-exam preparation by 60-75%.

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48.

Legal Brief Drafting

Generate first drafts of legal briefs with structured arguments, proper citations, and professional legal style. Reduces brief drafting time by 50-70%.

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49.

Trial Strategy Development

Synthesize case materials to develop comprehensive trial strategy, including narrative themes, witness analysis, and document strategy. Accelerates strategic analysis significantly.

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50.

Case Law Research & Synthesis

Research case law via MCP integrations, analyze relevant opinions, and synthesize findings into actionable research memos. Reduces research time by 50-70%.

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51.

Litigation Document Summarization

Summarize complaints, motions, orders, and other litigation filings, extracting key allegations, arguments, and deadlines. Reduces initial document review by 70-85%.

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52.

Precedent Analysis

Analyze patterns in case outcomes, distinguish helpful from harmful authority, and assess litigation risk based on analogous precedent. Reduces precedent analysis by 60-75%.

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53.

Case Timeline Creation

Extract dates and events from diverse case documents to build comprehensive, sortable timelines with source references. Reduces timeline creation by 75-85%.

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Practice Area Specialties

5 use cases

Practice Management & Billing

9 use cases

Legal Research & Compliance

5 use cases

Data Security & Privacy

3 use cases

Transactional & Contract Work

10 use cases

76.

Contract Review & Analysis

Analyze any agreement against your custom playbook, extracting key provisions and flagging deviations with severity indicators. Reduces initial review time by 70-85%.

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77.

Due Diligence Document Review

Process M&A data room documents at scale, extracting key provisions and flagging issues across hundreds to thousands of documents. Reduces initial document review by 70-80%.

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78.

Contract Data Extraction

Extract structured data from contracts and export to Excel, CSV, or other formats for analysis and portfolio tracking. Achieves 90%+ reduction versus manual extraction.

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79.

Contract Drafting from Templates

Generate customized first drafts from your templates based on deal parameters, maintaining your firm's preferred language. Reduces first draft preparation by 60-75%.

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80.

Redline Generation & Response

Generate Word documents with native track changes and negotiation comments for rapid responsive redlining. Reduces redline preparation by 70-80%.

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81.

Lease Analysis & Abstraction

Extract 40+ standard lease provisions to structured format for portfolio tracking and deadline management. Reduces abstraction time by 80-90%.

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82.

MSA/SLA Review

Analyze Master Service Agreements and SLAs against your vendor management standards, identifying gaps in service levels, security, and liability. Reduces review time by 65-80%.

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83.

Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) Analysis

Comprehensively analyze SPAs, extracting representations and warranties, indemnification structures, closing conditions, and risk areas. Reduces initial SPA review by 60-75%.

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84.

Limited Partnership Agreement (LPA) Review

Extract and analyze fund terms including fee structures, distribution waterfalls, and governance provisions for rapid comparison across fund opportunities. Reduces LPA analysis time by 70-80%.

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85.

Term Sheet Compliance Analysis

Systematically compare definitive agreements against term sheets to identify discrepancies, missing provisions, and unintended deviations. Reduces compliance review by 80-90%.

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Workflows & Enterprise Tools

15 use cases

86.

Playbook & Template Creation

Create and apply negotiation playbooks that codify institutional knowledge into structured positions, alternatives, and red lines for consistent standards.

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87.

Multi-Step Workflow Automation

Automate repetitive legal processes like NDA intake, document review, and approval routing using Claude's Skills and Cowork capabilities.

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88.

In-House Legal Matter Management

Organize and track hundreds of legal matters using Claude Projects, generating status dashboards and stakeholder reports.

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89.

Client Collaboration Portal

Generate professional client-ready status reports, matter briefings, and communications with consistent formatting and appropriate detail levels.

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90.

Legal Memo & Opinion Drafting

Draft polished legal memoranda and opinion letters with proper structure, citation integration, and professional analysis from your research.

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91.

Document Q&A

Ask specific questions about uploaded documents and receive precise answers with section and page references.

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92.

Tabular Review

Extract specified data from multiple documents into consistent tabular format for portfolio analysis and spreadsheet export.

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93.

Microsoft Word Integration

Process Word documents natively with track changes, professional comments, and formatting preservation using Claude's Cowork and contract-revision skill.

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94.

Document Translation

Translate legal documents across major languages while preserving legal terminology, meaning, and document structure.

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95.

Issue List Generation

Extract and categorize negotiation issues from contract redlines, tracking resolution across rounds with stakeholder-ready summaries.

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96.

Financial Services Legal Compliance

Map regulatory requirements across federal and state frameworks for financial services, assessing policy gaps and preparing for examinations.

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97.

Corporate Policy Development

Draft comprehensive corporate policies aligned with regulatory requirements and business context, structured for employee comprehension.

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98.

Witness Statement Analysis

Analyze multiple witness statements for consistency, credibility factors, and evidentiary value, generating investigation analysis memos.

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99.

Clause Comparison Across Documents

Compare specific clause language across multiple contracts to identify variations, patterns, and standardization opportunities.

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100.

Evidence Search & Retrieval

Search across case document sets to locate specific evidence, impeachment material, and supporting exhibits for trial preparation.

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