legal-clinic

By Anthropic

Sets up the clinic, onboards students, runs structured intake, tracks deadlines with malpractice-aware caution, and hands off cases at semester end — built within ABA Formal Op. 512.

Plugin · by anthropics · runs in Claude Code, Cowork, claude.ai · 16 skills, 5 MCP servers · listed 2026-05-11

Claude Code

claude plugin install legal-clinic

Source

Skills (16)

Skill build-guide

Help a clinic supervisor author a practice-area guide that configures how student-facing skills behave — intake questions, pedagogy posture (assist / guide / teach), review gates, cross-plugin…

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill build-guide
```
Skill client-comms-log

Log a client communication — call, email, text, letter, in-person, voicemail. Append-only per-case record with dated entries, direction, medium, summary, action items.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-comms-log
```
Skill client-intake

Structured intake — practice-area templates, cross-area issue spotting, conflict flags, and triage classification. Produces a formatted case summary the student analyzes and the professor reviews.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-intake
```
Skill client-letter

Routine client correspondence from templates — appointment confirmations, document requests, brief "we filed it" updates. Plain language, required elements, supervision routing.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill client-letter
```
Skill cold-start-interview

Professor's one-time clinic setup — practice areas, jurisdiction, supervision style (formal review queue / configurable flags / lighter-touch), and handbook/rules upload.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill cold-start-interview
```
Skill customize

Guided customization of your legal clinic profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust clinic profile, jurisdiction, supervision style, practice-area…

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill customize
```
Skill deadlines

Track case deadlines — add, cross-case rollup report, update, complete, close. Warns at configurable thresholds (default 14/7/3/1 days); overdue items stay flagged until resolved.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill deadlines
```
Skill draft

First draft of a common clinic document — practice-area templates (asylum applications, eviction answers, protective order petitions, demand letters), jurisdiction-aware formatting, explicitly a…

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill draft
```
Skill form-generation

Reference: DEPRECATED — use `/draft` instead. This skill has been folded into the draft skill, which handles practice-area document generation including form population.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill form-generation
```
Skill memo

IRAC-scaffolded case analysis memo with research gaps flagged — the scaffold, not the analysis. Rule blocks are RESEARCH NEEDED, Application is STUDENT ANALYSIS prompts, Conclusion is blank.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill memo
```
Skill plain-language-letters

Reference: DEPRECATED — use `/client-letter` for routine correspondence or `/status client` for substantive updates. Split into two more focused skills during the v2 rebuild.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill plain-language-letters
```
Skill ramp

Student semester onboarding — clinic procedures, tool walkthrough, practice exercises before real cases. Reads the handbook the professor uploaded at setup and teaches it interactively.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill ramp
```
Skill research-start

Research roadmap for a legal issue — statutes to check, case law areas to investigate, regulatory frameworks, Westlaw search terms.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill research-start
```
Skill semester-handoff

End-of-semester case handoff memos — the mirror of /ramp. Produces per-case transition memos and a cohort summary so the departing cohort hands work to the incoming cohort cleanly.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill semester-handoff
```
Skill status

Case status summary by audience — client-facing (plain language), internal (for the professor), or court-ready (formal caption format per local rules). Same facts, different framing and depth.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill status
```
Skill supervisor-review-queue

Professor's review queue — student output waits here for professor approval before going to clients or courts. Only active if "formal review queue" supervision style was chosen at setup; otherwise…

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill supervisor-review-queue
```

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