Since 28 October 2026, Claude has offered lawyers a gallery of ready-to-use tools: contract review in a table, citation checking, regulatory monitoring and matter tracking. Each tool opens on a pre-filled example, adapts to your playbook and can be shared with your colleagues.

The Claude for Legal gallery: the six tools designed by Anthropic. Citation checking: compares a document with its sources and flags wrong citations and pages. Multi-jurisdiction matrix: one topic, several countries, a single table linked to the texts. Matter tracker: owner, next step and deadline for each matter. Playbook deviations: non-standard clauses, sent to the right person. Regulatory monitoring: upcoming texts on a timeline, ranked by impact. Tabular review: one clause per column, across a whole batch of contracts.
The six tools in the legal gallery designed by Anthropic (names translated by AI Sisters).

At AI Sisters, an AI consultancy, we have sorted out what a French legal department or law firm can use right now, and what is still designed for US law.

In brief

  • Since 28 October 2026, Claude for Legal has offered a gallery of ready-to-use legal tools, each delivered with a pre-filled example.
  • Six tools come from Anthropic: tabular contract review, playbook deviations, citation checking, matter tracker, regulatory monitoring and multi-jurisdiction matrix.
  • You adapt them by asking Claude, connect them to your sources with connectors and share them with your team.
  • Under French law, tabular review and playbook deviations are useful right now; no connector has been announced for French legal databases.
  • Anthropic places these tools in Claude Enterprise, with no official list of the plans included.
  • Every output remains a draft to be reviewed by a lawyer.

Read also: our guide to Claude skills for your teams, Claude and Pennylane for accounting firms and the AI Act’s AI training obligation.

What you can do with Claude for Legal

Claude for Legal is Anthropic’s offering for legal professionals, launched on 12 May 2026. On 28 October, Anthropic added artifacts to it: small interactive applications, tables or dashboards that open directly in Claude. Six come from Anthropic:

  • Tabular review builds a table from a batch of contracts, with one column per requested clause (notice period, non-compete, liability cap) and a link to the exact passage.
  • The playbook deviations tool compares contracts with your standard terms, spots the clauses that depart from them and sends them to the person who approves exceptions.
  • Citation checking compares a document with its sources: a misquoted citation, a wrong page number, a source that does not say what it is claimed to say.
  • The matter tracker turns engagement letters, emails or Excel files into a list of open matters, with owner, next step and deadline.
  • Regulatory monitoring places upcoming texts on a timeline, ranked by their impact on your business and the countries where you operate.
  • The multi-jurisdiction matrix sets one topic, for example data breach notification, against several countries in a single table linked to the texts.
Example of a tabular review of four fictitious supplier contracts. Request: term, termination and liability cap. Cloud hosting: 3 years, tacit renewal, 6 months’ notice article 14.2, cap of 12 months of fees article 9.1. Software maintenance: 1 year, tacit renewal, 3 months’ notice article 11, uncapped liability article 8.4. Payroll services: 2 years, termination for breach only article 16.1, capped at the contract amount article 10. CRM licence: 1 year, 1 month’s notice article 7.3, cap of 6 months of fees article 12.2.
A tabular review: each cell points to the contract article it comes from. Illustration by AI Sisters, fictitious contracts.

Four tools come from partners: an AI governance audit from the law firm Goodwin, contractual obligations tracking from Foley & Lardner, responses to disclosure orders from PwC and a legal request desk connected to Harvey. Nine others, limited to certain US states, support access to justice. Legora and Orrick are due to publish theirs.

In plain terms. An artifact is like a ready-built Excel template, delivered with a filled-in example: you replace the example with your own matters. To change it, you ask Claude in plain language, without touching a formula.

Before / after: the same question, two results

Until now, asking Claude “which contracts depart from our playbook?” produced a long answer in the conversation. You had to copy it into a table, then email it to the people who approve. With the playbook deviations tool, the answer takes the form of a table the whole team can consult. Each card points to the original clause and goes to the person who decides.

Same request, two results. Before: a text answer in the conversation to the question “Which contracts depart from our playbook?”. After: a tool shared with the team, in three columns. Compliant: CRM licence, payroll. Deviation: maintenance, uncapped liability; cloud, 6 months’ notice. Approved: catering. The tool is shared with the legal department and purchasing, and each card points to the original clause.
On the left, what you used to get; on the right, a tool the team can pick up. Illustration by AI Sisters, fictitious contracts.

Robert Mahari, head of Claude for Legal at Anthropic, told the ABA Journal that lawyers were asking for “something a little easier to use and adapt” than the May plugins. The new tools, he says, are “fairly close to being ready to use”.

Tutorial: get started with a tool in four steps

Get started with a tool in four steps. 1, open the gallery: in Claude, the Legal filter of the artifacts gallery. 2, read the example: each tool opens with a fictitious, pre-filled case. 3, adapt: for example “Use our playbook and our approval thresholds”. 4, connect and share: your sources via connectors, then share with the team.
The procedure described by Anthropic on 28 October 2026.
  1. Open Claude’s artifacts gallery and filter on “Legal”.
  2. Open a tool and read the example provided. You see how the output is built before adding your own documents.
  3. Ask Claude to adapt the tool to the way you work, for example: “Use our purchasing playbook and send liability deviations to the head of legal.”
  4. Connect your sources through connectors rather than uploading files one by one, then share the tool. Sharing settings let you keep teams separate from one another.

To go further, the twelve legal plugins published in May are freely available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. Each one starts with a setup interview that records your thresholds, your contacts and your negotiating positions. This is the skills mechanism, explained on our Claude skills page.

What about a French lawyer?

Anthropic’s examples are mostly American. The research connectors (Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, CourtListener) cover US law, and the access-to-justice tools are limited to New York or Washington. The six gallery tools, however, work on your documents and your playbook: most of them are useful whatever the governing law.

The Claude for Legal gallery tools under French law: our view as of 3 November 2026
ToolUseful in France?What to give it
Tabular reviewYesYour contracts and the list of clauses to extract
Playbook deviationsYesA written playbook, with approval thresholds
Matter trackerYesEngagement letters, emails or tracking files
Citation checkingYes, for consistencyThe document and its sources; case law is checked in your usual databases
Multi-jurisdiction matrixWith cautionThe texts for each country, as there is no dedicated connector
Regulatory monitoringPartlyYour activities and locations, and European sources

Two plugins speak directly to European teams. Privacy-legal prepares impact assessments, reviews data processing agreements and helps answer access requests. Ai-governance-legal keeps an inventory of your AI systems within the meaning of the AI Act. On the sources side, the Legal Data Hunter connector claims more than 31 million documents across more than 160 jurisdictions, including consolidated European Union law. As of 3 November 2026, we found no announcement of a Claude connector from Doctrine, Lefebvre Dalloz or LexisNexis.

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Three uses to start with at the office

1. Legal department: supplier contracts

Reviewing every supplier contract against the company’s standard terms takes time, especially at renewal time. The playbook deviations tool sorts the contracts and sends each deviation to the person who approves it. First task: ten contracts already signed, to compare with what the team had spotted. Watch out: the playbook must exist in writing. If your thresholds only live in your lawyers’ heads, start by writing them down.

Example of playbook deviations on fictitious contracts, in three columns. Compliant, 12 contracts: mutual NDA Studio Nord, term and jurisdiction compliant; CRM licence, cap and notice compliant. To approve, 3 contracts: software maintenance, uncapped liability whereas the playbook sets 12 months of fees, sent to the head of legal; cloud hosting, 6 months’ notice whereas the playbook sets 3 months maximum, sent to the purchasing manager. Approved, 4 contracts: payroll services, exception accepted on 2 November by the finance director.
Deviations go to the right person; the thresholds come from your playbook. Illustration by AI Sisters, fictitious contracts.

2. Compliance: regulatory monitoring

Regulatory monitoring places upcoming texts on a timeline, based on your business and the countries where you operate, with a link to each source. First task: run it on a topic you already follow, the AI Act for example, and compare it with your own tracking. Watch out: without a European source connected, check every entry-into-force date.

3. Law firm: reviewing pleadings

Citation checking compares written submissions or a memo with their sources. It flags misquoted citations, wrong page numbers and sources that do not support the argument. First task: a memo already reviewed by a partner, to measure what the tool picks up. Watch out: it checks consistency with the sources you give it and does not do case law research for you.

Limits to know

Anthropic says so in its GitHub repository: every output is a draft to be reviewed by a lawyer and does not constitute legal advice. The tools produce a first version; the legal position remains that of the professional who signs.

For access, Anthropic places these tools in its Claude Enterprise offering and refers companies to its sales team or its integration partners, including Deloitte, KPMG, PwC and Accenture. No official list of the plans included has been published: check in your own account. For professional secrecy, keep confidential documents to a business plan and write down what may go into it. According to Anthropic, the iManage, Box and NetDocuments connectors apply the access rights already set in those tools.

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Key takeaways

  • Since 28 October 2026, Claude for Legal has offered a gallery of ready-to-use legal tools, each delivered with an example.
  • Six tools come from Anthropic: tabular review, playbook deviations, citation checking, matter tracker, regulatory monitoring, multi-jurisdiction matrix.
  • You adapt them by asking Claude, connect them to your sources with connectors and share them with your team.
  • In France, tabular review and playbook deviations are useful straight away; French legal sources still need to be connected.
  • Every output is a draft to be reviewed by a lawyer.

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