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Clinic Document First Drafts

Produces a flagged first draft of a legal clinic document (e.g., eviction answer, asylum declaration) for student and attorney review.

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Repository
anthropics/claude-for-legal
Stars
9,870
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
1 file

What it does

When a law clinic student needs a first draft of a court filing, letter, or declaration, this skill reads the clinic's saved templates, jurisdiction settings and case notes, then writes a draft with explicit placeholders such as [FACT NEEDED], [VERIFY] and [UNCERTAIN] wherever facts are missing or legal points need checking. It also labels the output as AI-assisted, adds a review checklist, and routes it to a supervising professor before anything is filed. Depending on the supervisor's teaching setting, it may make the student write sections first and only give feedback.

Great for

  • Law clinic students who need a starting structure for a motion, letter, petition or declaration
  • Clinic professors who want drafts to follow a consistent template and supervision workflow
  • Teams already using the claude-for-legal plugin with a configured legal-clinic CLAUDE.md

Skip it if

  • Filing-ready documents or anyone relying on the draft without attorney review; the skill states drafts are starting points and court filings must go through supervision first
  • Matters in a different state or court than the clinic's configured jurisdiction, because formatting, deadlines and rules vary and the skill assumes the saved settings
  • Document types outside the clinic's template set, where the skill itself warns the output is untuned and risky

Try asking

  • “/legal-clinic:draft eviction-answer”
  • “/legal-clinic:draft asylum-declaration”
  • “/legal-clinic:draft demand-letter for a security deposit dispute”
  • “/legal-clinic:draft protective-order-petition”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Clinic Document First DraftsInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    draft.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip draft.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip draft.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 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

  • Set up CLAUDE.md with your jurisdiction, local rules and supervision style first, since the skill relies on them and flags what is missing.
  • Give complete case notes; the more facts provided, the fewer [FACT NEEDED] placeholders remain.
  • Treat every legal assertion in the draft as a hypothesis to verify against current rules before filing.

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.