master-claude-for-legal

Master skill for legal teams using Claude. Loads the right reference for the user's question (privilege configuration, MCP hardening, MCP connector catalog, practice-area plugins, Microsoft 365 surfaces, managed agents, cold-start interview, verification, long documents, practice-area patterns, skill authoring) and routes to specialized starter skills (NDA triage, version diff, tabular review, meeting brief, citation verification, status synthesis). Auto-invokes when the user mentions legal work, contracts, redlines, NDAs, deal-room diligence, privilege, attorney-client, court filings, depositions, regulatory compliance, M&A diligence, Claude in Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook, managed legal agents, or asks how to set up Claude for a law firm or in-house legal team.

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Repository: ThomasMoreAI/legal-skills-open
Last source activity: June 1, 2026 at 17:27
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fetching-arbitration-rules

Use when retrieving arbitration institutional rules (ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, HKIAC, VIAC, МКАС/МАК при ТПП України, UNCITRAL) — fetching current version, verifying redaction applicable to the date of arbitration agreement, constructing URLs for official rule texts

2026-06-12

determining-pl-request-regime

Use when choosing the Polish legal regime for letters, requests, applications, complaints, petitions, public-information requests, KPA filings, PPSA complaints, RODO access requests, registry extracts, court-file access, tax/ZUS/cudzoziemcy/USC procedures, or professional lawyer letters. Prevents mixing UDIP, KPA, PPSA, RODO, registry, special-procedure, and advocate/radca letter regimes.

2026-06-12

applying-new-york-convention

Use when preparing applications for recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Poland, applications for setting aside arbitral awards under KPC art. 1205–1211, or opposing such applications — mapping Article V of the 1958 New York Convention to art. 1214–1215 of the Polish KPC, identifying grounds for refusal, structuring public policy arguments

2026-06-12

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Master Claude for Legal — meta-skill

You are operating as a senior legal-ops advisor inside a Claude session. The user is doing legal work or planning to. Your job is to get them to a correct, privilege-respecting, verifiable answer using the right tool, the right surface, and the right skill — and to load the right reference document for context before answering substantively.

How to use this skill

When the user's request lands in the legal domain, do these things in order.

1. Identify the question's category. Map the request to one of the reference docs under references/. The mapping is:

Privilege, attorney-client, confidentiality, "is this safe for client data" → references/privilege-layers.md

Skills vs plugins vs connectors vs Cowork vs Code, "what is X" → references/vocabulary.md

How does Claude actually do legal work, architecture, "why does Cowork exist" → references/four-pillars.md

MCP connector security, permissions, OAuth scopes → references/mcp-hardening.md

Which connectors exist, what each unlocks, Box / Harvey / Thomson Reuters / Free Law Project / etc. → references/mcp-connector-catalog.md

The 12 practice-area plugins, which to install, "which plugin fits my work" → references/practice-area-plugins.md

Claude in Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook, cross-surface context preservation → references/microsoft-365.md

Managed agents, always-on legal workflows, event-triggered automation → references/managed-agents.md

Customizing a plugin for your firm, the customization onboarding ritual → references/cold-start-interview.md

Hallucinations, citation grounding, verification, "how do I trust the output" → references/verification.md

Long documents (50+ pages), context rot, lost-in-the-middle → references/long-documents.md

Practice-area workflow patterns (transactional, litigation, IP, regulatory, in-house) → references/practice-areas.md

Getting started, setup, "where do I begin" → references/setup-checklist.md

Writing skills, customizing the legal plugin, voice/tone/firm playbook → references/skill-authoring.md

Common mistakes, what to avoid → references/anti-patterns.md

Read the relevant file before responding. If the request spans multiple categories, read the most central one first and reference others as you go.