Cold-Call Prep for Law Students
Predicts a professor's likely questions on a case and drills you Socratically before class
- Repository
- anthropics/claude-for-legal
- Stars
- 9,870
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
Once installed, the agent helps a law student prepare for a cold call. It reads the student's class and professor notes from a configuration file, predicts 6-10 likely questions about a case (facts, holding, reasoning, application, policy), then quizzes the student one question at a time without giving the answers. It finishes with a summary of what the student got right, what was shaky, and what to re-read before class. It also stops and redirects if the student describes a real legal problem instead of a study question.
Great for
- Law students preparing for cold calls in Socratic-method classes
- Students who want to find gaps in their case reading before class
- Students who paste case text or casebook pages and want questions based on it
Skip it if
- Real legal problems such as a lease, ticket, or family matter: the skill refuses to give advice on those and points to legal aid or a lawyer instead
- Non-law subjects or people who want the case holding handed to them: the skill is built to make the student answer first, so it will not simply state the answer
- Students who have not read the case at all: the questions depend on having absorbed the text, so the skill cannot substitute for reading
Try asking
- “Prep for class tomorrow. I have Contracts with Professor Lee, here is the reading on Hadley v. Baxendale”
- “Cold call me on this case: [paste case text]”
- “What might my torts professor ask on this reading?”
- “Quiz me on the policy questions for today's assigned opinion”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
cold-call-prep.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip cold-call-prep.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip cold-call-prep.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Paste the actual case text or casebook excerpt rather than only the case name, so predictions are based on the real opinion and are not flagged as uncertain guesses
- Fill in your professor's known tendencies in the CLAUDE.md config so the questions are weighted to how they actually call on students
- Answer in your own words before checking; the drill works only if you attempt each question first
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from anthropics/claude-for-legal under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.