Subpoena Triage
Classifies a subpoena served on the company and drafts objections, a compliance plan and a deadline calendar.
- Repository
- anthropics/claude-for-legal
- Stars
- 9,870
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
When a company receives a subpoena, this skill makes the agent read it, classify it (for example third-party documents, deposition, or regulatory demand), pull the related matter and privilege notes from the user's legal configuration files, and produce a triage memo. The memo covers scope, burden and privilege issues, a possible objections framework, a compliance plan and a deadline calendar. It also flags grand jury subpoenas for immediate escalation to criminal counsel and suggests follow-up steps such as a legal hold.
Great for
- In-house or outside counsel handling a subpoena or civil investigative demand served on a company
- Legal operations staff who need a first-pass triage and deadline list before a lawyer reviews it
- Lawyers who want a structured checklist of objection categories to verify
Skip it if
- Final legal advice or filings: the skill's own text says rule outputs are starting-point heuristics that must be checked against the current rule and local variant before use in writing (risk of wrong deadlines or missed objections)
- Grand jury subpoenas: the skill stops and escalates rather than analyzing them, so it gives no substantive help there
- Anyone without legal training or a supervising lawyer, since missed deadlines can cause contempt exposure or waive privilege
Try asking
- “We got a subpoena from the court in the Acme case, here is the PDF. Triage it.”
- “Served with a third-party document subpoena from a state AG. Classify it and build a deadline calendar.”
- “Here is a deposition subpoena for our operations manager. Draft an objections framework and compliance plan.”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
subpoena-triage.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip subpoena-triage.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip subpoena-triage.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
- Give the agent the subpoena file path and confirm the forum, since FRCP 45 and state variants change objection deadlines.
- Check every citation tagged verify or model knowledge against a primary source before relying on it in an objection.
- Run the matching legal hold check early, because the skill hands off to legal-hold when no hold is in place.
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.