Claude AI Prompts for Lawyers

After your client has completed treatment or reached maximum medical improvement, when you have the records and all damage figures ready.

Intermediate · Personal Injury, Litigation

When the complaint has clear legal deficiencies, such as jurisdictional defects, time bars, or failure to plead essential elements.

Advanced · Litigation, Corporate Law

When starting a new lease negotiation and you need a comprehensive first draft based on agreed deal terms.

Intermediate · Real Estate Law

When onboarding a new executive or key employee who needs a tailored agreement beyond a standard offer letter.

Intermediate · Employment Law, Corporate Law

Before sharing any proprietary information with a potential partner, acquirer, vendor, or investor.

Beginner · Corporate Law, Intellectual Property

As a first step before litigation to put the offending party on notice and create a paper trail.

Intermediate · Intellectual Property, Litigation

At the start of a research project to frame the issue and plan your searches, and again once you have pulled opinions and need them summarized and applied to your facts.

Beginner · Litigation, Corporate Law, Employment Law

When you encounter an unfamiliar statute or need to break down complex statutory language for a memo or client advice.

Beginner · Litigation, Corporate Law, Employment Law

When advising clients operating across state lines, evaluating forum selection, or conducting a 50-state survey.

Advanced · Corporate Law, Employment Law, Real Estate Law

When a new regulation is enacted, a client enters a regulated industry, or you need to assess compliance risk.

Advanced · Corporate Law, Employment Law

When the statutory text is ambiguous and you need to argue legislative intent, particularly where textualist and purposivist approaches point in different directions.

Advanced · Litigation, Corporate Law

As a first pass on any contract before detailed review; it catches the biggest issues quickly.

Beginner · Contract Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law

When reviewing any commercial lease, whether for a new deal or renewal negotiation.

Intermediate · Real Estate Law

When a client has a potential claim and you need to determine whether the policy provides coverage, from the insured's, insurer's, or claimant's side.

Advanced · Litigation, Corporate Law, Personal Injury

When launching a new product, updating policies, or conducting a periodic compliance audit.

Intermediate · Corporate Law, Employment Law

During the due diligence phase of any M&A transaction when reviewing data room documents.

Advanced · Corporate Law

When launching a new product, onboarding a new client, or conducting a periodic legal audit of website terms.

Intermediate · Corporate Law, Intellectual Property

At the start of every new client engagement, before beginning any substantive work.

Beginner · Solo Practice, Corporate Law, Litigation

After a hearing, filing, ruling, or other single development that the client should hear about promptly.

Beginner · Litigation, Family Law, Personal Injury

When a client has questions about their retainer agreement, or as a companion document to send with the agreement.

Beginner · Solo Practice, Family Law

When presenting a settlement offer to the client for their approval.

Intermediate · Personal Injury, Litigation

When a client pushes back on an invoice; respond promptly and professionally to prevent escalation.

Intermediate · Solo Practice, Corporate Law

After every deposition, to create a working summary for case preparation and trial prep.

Intermediate · Litigation, Personal Injury

Early in discovery to establish the factual foundation and identify documents and witnesses for follow-up.

Intermediate · Litigation, Employment Law

During document review in litigation, as a first-pass classification before attorney review.

Advanced · Litigation, Corporate Law

When preparing privilege logs for discovery responses, one of the most tedious but critical litigation tasks.

Advanced · Litigation, Corporate Law

Before writing any substantive motion or brief; outlining first produces better organized, more persuasive writing.

Intermediate · Litigation

When you need sworn testimony to support a motion, such as summary judgment, a preliminary injunction, or any evidentiary submission.

Intermediate · Litigation, Family Law, Immigration Law

When responding to any set of written discovery: interrogatories, requests for production, or requests for admission.

Intermediate · Litigation, Employment Law

After an adverse trial result, when evaluating whether and how to appeal.

Advanced · Litigation, Criminal Defense

When you receive any document (letter, filing, contract, court order) and need to understand it quickly before deciding on next steps.

Beginner · Litigation, Corporate Law, Contract Law, Real Estate Law

When a client needs to understand a document but the legal language would confuse them: court orders, opposing counsel letters, contracts, estate plans.

Beginner · Family Law, Estate Planning, Personal Injury, Solo Practice

Before any call, meeting, hearing, or deposition when you need to get up to speed quickly.

Beginner · Litigation, Corporate Law, Family Law, Solo Practice

When you have the substance but need it polished: after a call, between meetings, or when drafting from voice notes.

Beginner · Solo Practice, Corporate Law, Litigation

When opposing counsel returns a marked-up document and you need to understand what changed before responding.

Intermediate · Contract Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law

When you receive any document with time-sensitive obligations: court orders, contracts, discovery requests, settlement agreements.

Beginner · Litigation, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law, Solo Practice

When you receive a letter from opposing counsel making demands, assertions, or arguments that require a written response.

Intermediate · Litigation, Employment Law, Contract Law

When a prospective or existing client asks 'How much will this cost?' Generate a structured estimate before the engagement call.

Intermediate · Solo Practice, Corporate Law, Litigation

When a client asks 'Where does my case stand?' Generate a clear cumulative summary before returning the call.

Beginner · Litigation, Family Law, Personal Injury, Solo Practice

Before filing a motion, sending a demand letter, or entering a negotiation; stress-test your argument first.

Advanced · Litigation, Corporate Law

When you have the client's story and the core documents in hand and want a structured first draft of a complaint that shows exactly which facts support each element before you start writing.

Advanced · Litigation, Contract Law

When a complaint has been served and you need to organize the client's position paragraph by paragraph and decide which affirmative defenses to plead before the response deadline.

Intermediate · Litigation, Employment Law

Early in discovery, when you know the claims and defenses and want a document request set that ties every request to an issue and will survive an overbreadth objection.

Intermediate · Litigation, Employment Law

After the core documents are in and you have a working chronology, when you want to lock down authenticity and undisputed facts so trial and summary judgment focus on what is truly contested.

Intermediate · Litigation, Personal Injury

When written discovery responses come back full of boilerplate objections, partial answers or missing documents, and you need to document each problem and start the meet-and-confer process that precedes a motion to compel.

Intermediate · Litigation, Employment Law

When preparing to depose a new witness and you want a structured outline that ties every line of questioning to a document or prior testimony and to the admissions your case theory needs.

Advanced · Litigation, Personal Injury

Whenever a matter has more documents than you can hold in your head, to build a sourced timeline that separates what is undisputed from what is contested and shows where the record is thin.

Intermediate · Litigation, Family Law

When you need consistent bibliographic fields for a set of documents, for example to build an exhibit index, feed a chronology or prepare a production, without mixing in subjective relevance or privilege calls.

Beginner · Litigation, Corporate Law

In the weeks before a mediation, when you need a persuasive but candid statement for the mediator that separates what the other side may see from what only the mediator should read.

Intermediate · Litigation, Personal Injury

In the run-up to trial, once exhibit and witness lists are exchanged, to make sure no excludable or pre-admissible evidence is missed before the motion in limine deadline.

Advanced · Litigation, Personal Injury

As soon as litigation is pending or reasonably anticipated, to get a clear preservation notice to the right custodians quickly and start a record of who received it and when.

Beginner · Litigation, Employment Law, In-House Counsel

After the first discovery production arrives and before drafting motions or a cross outline, when you need every conflict between the report, dispatch records, footage transcripts and statements in one place.

Advanced · Criminal Defense

After initial discovery review and before the motion deadline, when you need a structured inventory of every possible suppression issue in a stop, search, seizure or interrogation.

Advanced · Criminal Defense, Litigation

When you receive hours of body-cam footage or recorded jail calls and need a navigable, tagged log before deciding what to watch closely or use in motions.

Intermediate · Criminal Defense

When a plea offer arrives and you need to document, in writing the client can reread, what the offer means, what trial risks, and which collateral consequences must be checked.

Intermediate · Criminal Defense, Immigration Law

When preparing for sentencing with a mitigation file in hand, and you need a sourced first draft of the narrative section plus a plan for which support letters to feature.

Advanced · Criminal Defense

Before a suppression hearing, preliminary hearing or trial where the arresting officer will testify and you want a tight, source-pinned cross outline.

Advanced · Criminal Defense, Litigation

As soon as an RFE arrives, to break it into answerable issues, assign evidence-gathering tasks with time to spare, and get a structured first draft of the cover letter and exhibit index.

Advanced · Immigration Law

Before filing a declaration, before an asylum interview or merits hearing, or when new prior statements surface, to catch every discrepancy while there is still time to address it with the client.

Advanced · Immigration Law

When you have collected country-conditions reports, articles and expert material and need them organized by claim element, with pinpoint quotes, before drafting the brief or exhibit index.

Intermediate · Immigration Law

At case strategy stage for O-1, EB-1 or NIW petitions, or when an RFE challenges specific criteria, to see which criteria the evidence actually supports and what corroboration is missing.

Advanced · Immigration Law

Right after engagement for any immigration benefit, to give the client a clear, tailored list of documents to gather and an email explaining what to send and by when.

Beginner · Immigration Law, Solo Practice

When the counterparty's draft lands and you need a negotiation plan, not just a list of problems, before your first markup or call.

Intermediate · Contract Law, Corporate Law

During diligence or deal structuring, when you need to know which contracts will require counterparty consent or notice for the chosen structure and which carry termination risk.

Advanced · Contract Law, Corporate Law

When your team keeps renegotiating the same clauses from scratch and you want a written standard, with fallbacks and escalation rules, that Claude and non-lawyers can triage against.

Intermediate · In-House Counsel, Contract Law

When a corporation's board or an LLC's members or managers need to approve routine or transactional actions without holding a meeting.

Beginner · Corporate Law, Solo Practice

When a member of an LLC wants out, wants to buy out a co-owner, or is in a deadlock, and you need a structured view of the exit routes the operating agreement actually provides.

Advanced · Corporate Law, Contract Law

When you need the key terms of a lease in a consistent, cited format for onboarding, diligence, a rent roll check or calendaring, separate from any risk review.

Beginner · Real Estate Law

When a title commitment arrives during the due diligence period and you need to disposition every exception and get objections out before the contract deadline.

Advanced · Real Estate Law

Right after a purchase and sale agreement is signed, to set up the due diligence calendar, assign responsibilities and know exactly when the deposit goes hard.

Intermediate · Real Estate Law, Contract Law

After a knockout or preliminary search on a proposed brand, when you need to triage the hits, decide whether to proceed to a full search, and tell the client which marks matter.

Advanced · Intellectual Property

When a USPTO office action arrives and you need to separate each refusal and requirement, choose between arguing and amending, and assign evidence-gathering before the response deadline.

Advanced · Intellectual Property

When a patent, trademark, copyright, software or know-how license arrives for review and you need a side-specific issue list with redlines before negotiating.

Intermediate · Intellectual Property, Contract Law

When a client receives a separation agreement, or your company is about to issue one, and you need a quoted issues list before the consideration period runs.

Intermediate · Employment Law

When a charge of discrimination or retaliation arrives and you have the personnel file and witness notes but need a sourced first draft before the response deadline.

Advanced · Employment Law, In-House Counsel

When procurement or a business team sends a vendor's paper DPA and you need a clause-by-clause compliance and negotiation view before signing.

Intermediate · Privacy & Data Protection, In-House Counsel

When a business team proposes a new system, vendor or AI deployment that processes personal data and you need a structured first draft and question list before the assessment meeting.

Advanced · Privacy & Data Protection, In-House Counsel

When an access, deletion or correction request arrives and you need a verified, sourced response package and deadline tracker, especially for requests from employees or adverse parties.

Intermediate · Privacy & Data Protection

In the first days of an incident, once forensics has preliminary findings, to organize the facts and structure the jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction notification decision.

Advanced · Privacy & Data Protection, In-House Counsel

After the first client meeting and intake questionnaire, before the strategy consultation, to see the issues that drive chapter choice and timing.

Advanced · Bankruptcy, Solo Practice

When you have the client's credit reports and a stack of collection letters and need a clean, sourced creditor list before preparing schedules and the mailing matrix.

Beginner · Bankruptcy

At contract award or project kickoff, and again when a delay, change or dispute first arises, to see every notice requirement and its consequence in one place.

Intermediate · Construction Law, Contract Law

Before a subcontractor signs a subcontract, or when a payment or delay dispute arises and you need to see how the subcontract and prime contract interact.

Advanced · Construction Law, Contract Law

Within the first weeks after assignment, once you have the pleadings, claim file and an insured interview, to produce the initial evaluation report the carrier's guidelines require.

Advanced · Litigation, Personal Injury

After a prospective client returns the intake questionnaire and before the design meeting, when you need the whole picture on one page and a list of what is still missing.

Beginner · Estate Planning, Solo Practice

When a returning client brings in a will or trust signed years ago, or after a life event such as a divorce, death, birth or move, and you need to see quickly what no longer fits.

Intermediate · Estate Planning

After signing a revocable trust plan, at a periodic plan review, or whenever a client opens new accounts, changes jobs or buys property, to confirm assets actually flow through the plan.

Intermediate · Estate Planning

At the start of a probate administration, and again each time new statements or creditor claims arrive, to keep the inventory, claims and court deadlines in one working file.

Intermediate · Estate Planning

Right after a client is appointed executor or becomes a successor trustee, before they have made any decisions about money or property.

Beginner · Estate Planning, Solo Practice

Once you have a meaningful set of evidence in a custody case, before drafting declarations or a trial outline, and again before mediation to see which factors still need support.

Intermediate · Family Law

When a client hands you months of texts, emails or app messages in a custody, modification or contempt matter, and you need a usable timeline before drafting declarations or exhibits.

Beginner · Family Law

When a client claims an inheritance, premarital account, gift or premarital home equity is separate property, and you need to see whether the paper trail supports the claim before disclosures, negotiation or expert retention.

Advanced · Family Law

When treatment has ended or the client has reached maximum medical improvement and you are assembling specials for a demand, or when lien amounts need reconciling before settlement disbursement.

Beginner · Personal Injury

After an adjuster responds to your demand with a low offer and a list of reasons, when you want a disciplined, record-based response instead of a general complaint about the number.

Intermediate · Personal Injury, Litigation

The moment a prospective matter comes in, before anyone gives substantive advice, so the conflicts search runs on a complete list instead of only the names someone remembered to type.

Beginner · Solo Practice, Practice Management

Immediately after you decide not to take a matter, whether after a consultation, a conflicts hit or an intake screen, so the prospective client knows in writing that no one is protecting their claim.

Beginner · Solo Practice, Practice Management

When the work under an engagement is finished, settled or terminated, so the client knows in writing that the representation has ended and which deadlines are now theirs.

Beginner · Solo Practice, Litigation

At the end of the day or before a billing run, when your time notes are accurate but too terse, block-billed or inconsistent for the client to accept.

Beginner · Practice Management, Solo Practice

Before a firm releases an invoice to a client with billing guidelines, or when in-house counsel receives an outside counsel invoice and needs a first-pass compliance check.

Intermediate · Practice Management, In-House Counsel

When requests pile up in the legal inbox, intake form or chat channel and someone has to sort them, route them and acknowledge them before the substantive work begins.

Beginner · In-House Counsel, Corporate Law

When your firm or legal department is adopting AI tools, or already using them informally, and needs a written policy that people can follow and that maps to the ethics guidance.

Intermediate · Practice Management, Solo Practice, In-House Counsel

Before filing in any court or before any judge whose standing order or local rule requires disclosure or certification of generative AI use in a filing.

Beginner · Litigation, Solo Practice

Before any brief, motion or memo leaves the office, especially if any part was drafted with AI assistance or by someone whose research you have not reviewed.

Beginner · Litigation, Solo Practice

After you have pulled the relevant authorities from a research service and want a first-draft memo that stays strictly within them, so every legal statement traces to a source you have read.

Intermediate · Litigation, Corporate Law, Employment Law

When the substance of a brief, memo, letter or contract section is settled and you want it tighter and clearer before a final read, without risking a change to what it says.

Beginner · Litigation, Solo Practice, Contract Law