Claude Cowork consulting for lawyers

Claude Cowork consulting tuned to the way a practising lawyer actually works. Folder routines for contract review, brief drafting, client memos, and discovery synthesis. Runs on your machine, against your matter folders, with privilege flags and a confidentiality posture set up before the first session ends.

You bill for time. The work that does not bill is what wears you out.

A practising lawyer's day is half billable, half not. The not-billable half is reading the contract before the call, checking the precedent before the brief, summarising the matter for the client who keeps asking the same question, sorting through discovery to find the one document that matters. Skilled work, none of which the client wants to pay full freight for.

The web tools that promise to fix this want you to upload everything to their servers. That is a non-starter. Cowork is different. It runs on your laptop, against your matter folders, with permissions you control. No documents leave your machine unless you choose to send them.

Set up properly, Cowork does the not-billable half by Friday lunch. The billable half is what you spend the afternoon on.

The folder routines that handle the non-billable hour

Contract review

Drop a contract into a /contract-review folder. Cowork compares it against your firm's playbook, flags the deviations, drafts the markup memo for the client. You review the substance, not the boilerplate.

Brief drafting from precedent

A folder routine on /briefs. Drop the matter notes, your precedent file, and the court rules. Cowork drafts the sections, citations included, in your firm's voice. You write the argument, you do not assemble the structure.

Discovery synthesis with privilege flags

Drop a batch of documents into /discovery. Cowork produces a privilege log, flags potentially privileged communications for your eyes, drafts the responsive document summary. The week of paralegal time, into a Friday afternoon's review.

Client memo synthesis

A folder routine on /matters/[client]. Cowork reads the matter file, the recent emails, last week's call notes. Drafts the status memo the client has been asking for, with the questions you need answered to move forward.

Email triage with billing tags

A scheduled task at 7am. Reads your inbox, groups by matter, drafts the holding replies, surfaces the five things that need a real response. Tags each message with the matter code so time entry stops being a Friday afternoon scramble.

Daily time entry draft

A scheduled task at 5pm. Reads your calendar, your sent emails, your recent edits in /matters. Drafts the day's time entries with descriptions you can post. The reconciliation that takes thirty minutes a day, into five.

Cowork runs on your machine. We do not see your matters.

Cowork runs in your account, on your laptop, against folders you grant permission to. The setup session is the only time we see your screen, and we work against test files or redacted matters during the build. Standard NDA available before the call. Permissions for sensitive folders default to ask-before-acting, with explicit allow lists per folder.

For firms with a matter management system that requires a specific data residency or a private deployment, we route the engagement through the Implementation Partnership tier with Anthropic's Enterprise plan.

Try it on one matter, or set up the practice

Starter · $249 · 90 minutes

Test on one matter

Ninety minutes. We install Cowork, set up one folder routine for one type of matter, and walk away with the proof of concept. Cheapest way to find out before you book a full setup. See the Starter →

The non-billable hour, given back.

One day. Cowork tuned to the practice. Confidentiality from the first session.