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Is Claude Right for Your Legal Team?
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A practical buyer’s guide for in-house legal teams evaluating Claude Legal, Claude in Word, and modern legal AI workflows — with real-world use cases, evaluation frameworks, and a 15-minute assessment scorecard.
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Is Claude Right for Your Legal Team?
If you've run a Claude pilot, or watched one on LinkedIn, you've probably already felt the ceiling. Not because Claude isn't good. It is. But because "good AI" and "the right architecture for your team" are two different questions. We wrote a guide to help you tell them apart. "Is Claude Right for You?" is a buyer's guide for in-house legal teams, written by Donna Scaffidi, Head of AI & Legal Innovation at Ruli AI, and former M&A attorney at White & Case and Gunderson Dettmer. Inside: A clear breakdown of what Claude Legal and Claude in Word actually do (including the one Anthropic-documented restriction that changes the math for most in-house teams) A six-criterion framework for evaluating any legal AI, vendor-agnostic and ready to use in a team meeting Three real workflow walkthroughs: counterparty MSAs at quarter-end, cross-jurisdictional regulatory monitoring, and drafting with institutional context A 15-minute self-assessment scorecard to score your current setup
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