Claude prompts for lawyers and paralegals
Claude Projects can keep uploaded files and project instructions together across related chats. These prompts provide a scoped assignment, an output format, and source-location requirements; you still need to verify every result against the record.
Product-source review: . Capabilities and data terms vary by plan and can change. Confirm the current product documentation and your organization’s approval before using case material.
Claude for litigation — product fit and limits
Strengths
- Projects can organize chats, uploaded knowledge, and standing project instructions in one workspace.
- Available context length varies by model, plan, and access method; paid plans can support substantial record sets.
- Eligible API customers may have zero-data-retention arrangements, subject to Anthropic’s current terms and model-specific exceptions.
Watch-outs
- Claude is a general-purpose model, not a citator or matter-management system.
- A source-location instruction cannot prevent invented or inaccurate citations; compare each result with the original record.
- Consumer, team, enterprise, and API data terms differ. Confirm the exact account and model your firm approves.
This is an editorial product comparison, not an endorsement or a security assessment.
Using CasePrompts with Claude
Create a Project for the matter, add the record to project knowledge, and paste the CasePrompts prompt as your first message. For repeated work on the same matter, move the Context block into the project instructions so each chat starts from it. Use only the account tier your firm has approved for case material.
From the builder you can copy a finished prompt and open Claude. The prompt’s source-location instruction changes with the selected document type.
Tool interfaces change — adapt as needed, and check your firm's AI use policy before uploading case materials.
Why structure helps more than “summarize this”
Every prompt follows the CITE method: Context, Instructions, Template, Evidence. It names the source in scope, the task, the output, and how to cite supporting locations. That makes Claude’s answer easier to inspect; it does not stop a model from misreading material, so check every material finding against the source.
Prompts to try in Claude
Prompt libraryRecord Interrogation Session Setup
The standing-rules prompt: paste this once at the start of a chat session and every answer after it comes cited, sourced, and honest about gaps.
AI Page-Line Deposition Summary Prompt
Turn a complete deposition transcript into a topic-based page-line summary with precise cites, verbatim excerpts, admissions, exhibits, and unanswered questions.
AI Medical Chronology Prompt for Lawyers
Build a date-ordered medical chronology from the complete record, with source citations for every encounter and explicit flags for treatment gaps, prior history, causation language, and missing records.
Expert Report vs. Deposition Audit
Audit an expert's deposition against their report: new opinions, abandoned opinions, changed bases, and undisclosed reliance materials — the record a motion to exclude depends on.
Mediation Position Summary
A neutral-tone summary of the record organized for a mediation statement: liability, damages, what's genuinely disputed, and what both sides already agree on.
Statement of Undisputed Material Facts (MSJ) Builder
Turn the record into a numbered Statement of Undisputed Material Facts for summary judgment — each fact a single sentence tied to a cite, with the genuinely disputed ones pulled out.
CasePrompts is vendor-neutral. Its builder and Ask your files read your files in the browser, so you can search the record and build a cited prompt before deciding whether anything goes to Claude. Data & privacy
Official product sources
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