Claude for Legal adds ready-made artifacts for cite checks

Anthropic on October 28 added a gallery of ready-made artifacts to Claude for Legal. Artifacts are interactive trackers and dashboards, and these cover contract review, cite checks, regulatory horizon scans and intake of requests from the business. A legal team can open one on its built-in example and see how the work comes together before adding its own documents and connectors, with Claude doing only the first pass and a lawyer applying judgment to the results.

In its announcement on the Claude site, Anthropic says the most common requests from legal teams since Claude for Legal launched on May 12 were simpler setup and easier ways to work with colleagues. Every answer or output in an artifact links to its source. Teams can ask Claude to tailor an artifact to how they work and use connectors to pull in their playbooks or research sources, so nobody has to upload documents by hand.

Six tasks in the gallery

Six artifacts cover the work legal teams raised with Anthropic most often. The cite check compares a legal document with its sources and flags quotes that don’t match, wrong page numbers and sources that don’t support the claim. Fortune set the May launch against lawyers being sanctioned for briefs that cited nonexistent cases, and the cite check goes straight at that failure.

The playbook deviation board compares contracts with a company’s standard terms, flags each clause that differs and sends it to the person who approves exceptions. Tabular review builds a table from a set of contracts showing the terms you ask about, such as severance or non-competes, with links to the exact language. The other three are a jurisdiction survey matrix that compares one topic, such as data breach notice rules, across states or countries with links to the underlying law; a matter board that turns engagement letters, emails or spreadsheets into one board of open matters with the owner, next step and next deadline; and a regulatory horizon scan that maps upcoming regulations on a timeline based on the company’s business and where it operates, ranked by impact with links to the sources.

Connectors and sharing

Claude for Legal launched in May with more than 20 MCP connectors. Since then Anthropic has added more than 60 legal connectors, including Bloomberg Law, Filevine, Ivo, Legora and Patlytics, and the full list sits in its legal directory.

Artifacts can be shared with colleagues across the business or with clients and partners outside it, under sharing settings that Anthropic says ensure privacy and support ethical walls between teams.

Built by firms and vendors

Four artifacts in the gallery come from law firms and legal tech companies. Goodwin’s AI Governance Benchmark benchmarks a company’s approach to AI governance to surface potential gaps. Foley & Lardner’s Obligations Checker reviews agreements for both parties’ obligations, to validate expectations before closing and track them after. PwC’s Subpoena Response Tool turns a team’s precedents, standard objections and templates into audit-ready first drafts.

Harvey Intake gives business users one place in Claude to send legal questions: routine ones are answered from Legal’s own guidance in Harvey, the rest go to a lawyer, and the lawyer’s reply comes back in Claude. Harvey was among the partners Anthropic announced on February 24, alongside LegalZoom and Intapp, Bloomberg Law reported. More artifacts are coming from Legora and Orrick.

Where the access-to-justice tools apply

The gallery includes nine access-to-justice artifacts, five of them built by nonprofit and public interest organizations Anthropic supported with Claude credits. Three of the five are tied to one jurisdiction. Zealous’s Criminal Charge Reality Check, which shows defense teams the sentencing range for a charge, public data on how such cases usually end and standard playbooks for release, is New York only. Rising for Justice built two on D.C. law: a Rent Ledger Reviewer that helps attorneys find errors in a landlord’s rent ledger when preparing an eviction case, and a Record-Sealing Screener for whether a client’s criminal record is eligible for sealing.

Mobile Pathways’ Immigration Papers Reader turns a client’s immigration paperwork into a plain-language first read of key dates and missing documents. The Access Project’s Record Clearance helps legal aid teams work out whether a client’s record can be cleared under their state’s rules.

The access-to-justice work builds on the Oxford Justice Innovators Programme, Anthropic’s 12-month program with the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice and Microsoft that supports up to 10 innovators expanding access to justice. Anthropic is also funding legal education programs that teach future lawyers to build with Claude, and it has opened a waitlist for a Legal Ambassadors Program, a community where legal professionals who build with Claude share their work.

Getting it running

For a rollout across an organization, Anthropic points to its sales team or to implementation partners including Accenture, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC. To try a single artifact, a team can browse the gallery inside Claude or start from the Claude for Legal page.