Claude for Legal

Claude for Legal is Anthropic's package of tools for legal work, built on top of Claude. It consists of more than 20 MCP connectors that link Claude to software used by legal teams, and 12 plugins tailored to specific legal tasks and practice areas. It follows a first legal plugin that Anthropic released earlier in the year for Claude Cowork.

The connectors cover contract lifecycle and drafting (Definely, Docusign, Ironclad), deal rooms (Box, Datasite), document management (iManage, NetDocuments), e-discovery (Consilio, Everlaw, Relativity), expert networks and skills (Lawve AI, The L Suite), and research (Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal, Legal Data Hunter). Legal Data Hunter is described as a corpus of 31M+ documents from 160+ jurisdictions, including EU consolidated law and case law. Connectors are described as respecting each user's existing permissions in the underlying system.

Claude works inside Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint, carrying context between them. In Word, skills encode team playbooks for drafting, redlining and clause comparison, with tracked changes. In Outlook, Claude triages matter-related email. In Claude Cowork, the connectors and plugins support multi-document work and scheduled tasks such as regulatory update sweeps. Projects provide a persistent workspace for precedents and prior drafts. Anthropic also states it is partnering with the Free Law Project and the Justice Technology Association on access to legal help.

The connectors and plugins are described as open source and available in Claude Cowork; enterprise admins can enable them in workspace settings. Access to individual third-party connectors presumably depends on the user's own subscriptions to those platforms. The material provided does not specify a license or a dedicated repository.