litigation-legal

By Anthropic

Manages the litigation portfolio — matters, deadlines, holds, demands, outside counsel — and does the work: claim charts (patent and civil), chronologies, depo prep, privilege logs, brief drafting. Adapts to how you work litigation: in-house, firm, or solo.

Plugin · by anthropics · runs in Claude Code, Cowork, claude.ai · 19 skills, 7 MCP servers, 1 agent · listed 2026-05-11

Claude Code

claude plugin install litigation-legal

Source

Skills (19)

Skill brief-section-drafter

Draft a brief section in house style, consistent with the case theory — every fact cited, every case checked, every argument tied to the theory.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill brief-section-drafter
```
Skill chronology

Build or update a chronology from declared document sources and uploads — dated events extracted, de-duped, and tagged by significance per the matter theory.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill chronology
```
Skill claim-chart

Build or review an element chart — a patent claim chart (infringement, invalidity, or review) or a civil element chart for any cause of action or defense — with every cell pin-cited and gap…

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

House cold-start for the litigation plugin — branches by role (in-house, firm associate, solo) and side (plaintiff, defense, both), captures risk calibration, landscape, and house style, and writes…

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

Guided customization of your litigation practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview.

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

Draft a demand letter from a completed intake, gated on a privilege / FRE 408 / waiver / admission checklist, with a .docx output, post-send checklist, and an offer to create a matter.

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

Pre-drafting context gathering for a demand letter — parties, facts, basis, leverage, BATNA, and privilege filters — written to a structured intake.md the demand-draft skill reads.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill demand-intake
```
Skill demand-received

Triage an inbound demand letter — extract fields, cross-check the portfolio, assess merit, present response options with a recommendation, and hand off to matter-intake or demand-intake if…

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill demand-received
```
Skill deposition-prep

Build a deposition outline for a witness — pull their documents from the eDiscovery platform, organize topics around the case theory, and surface impeachment material.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill deposition-prep
```
Skill legal-hold

Issue, refresh, release, or report on legal holds — drafts the hold notice as .docx, updates legal_hold fields in _log.yaml, and calendars the next refresh.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill legal-hold
```
Skill matter-briefing

Deep briefing on one matter — current posture, what's changed, next deadline, open questions, and a risk re-assessment check, ready before a GC update or outside counsel call. Use when the user says "

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill matter-briefing
```
Skill matter-close

Close a matter — capture outcome, final exposure, and lessons, then archive it out of the active portfolio without deleting the record.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill matter-close
```
Skill matter-intake

Intake a new matter — uniform questions covering identification, conflicts, source, risk triage, materiality, outside counsel, owners, legal hold, and key dates; writes matter.md and history.md and…

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill matter-intake
```
Skill matter-update

Append a dated event to a matter's history file and refresh the log row — captures new developments, status changes, risk re-assessments, deadline shifts, and settlement authority changes.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill matter-update
```
Skill matter-workspace

Manage matter workspaces for multi-client practices — create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter. Use when the user wants to create a new matter workspace, switch the active matter…

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill matter-workspace
```
Skill oc-status

Generate weekly status-request email drafts to outside counsel across the active portfolio — markdown per matter, plus Gmail drafts when the MCP is available.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill oc-status
```
Skill portfolio-status

Roll up the portfolio from _log.yaml — risk distribution, upcoming deadlines, stale matters, materiality totals, stage distribution, and flagged anomalies.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill portfolio-status
```
Skill privilege-log-review

First-pass privilege log review — make the obvious privilege calls and flag the hard ones for attorney review without making close calls.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill privilege-log-review
```
Skill subpoena-triage

Triage a subpoena served on the company — classify it, analyze scope/burden/privilege, cross-check the portfolio, and produce an objections framework, compliance plan, and deadline calendar.

Any agent
```
npx skills add anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill subpoena-triage
```

Agents (1)

Agent docket-watcher

Scheduled agent that watches court dockets for matters in the active portfolio. Pulls new filings, computes candidate deadlines, cross-references against each matter's history and deliverables, and…

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