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Claude Promptsfor Law Firm Owners

49 prompts. 3 added every Friday. Free.

The same Claude prompts we run live in MLA Intelligence Labs every Wednesday. Built for solo and small-firm owners. Battle-tested against real firm data.

Setup is required before these prompts work

These prompts assume Claude can read your firm's data. Without the connectors below, Claude has nothing to operate on and the prompts return generic answers. We walk through setup live every Wednesday in MLA Intelligence Labs.

Ranql MCP — competitive + market dataGmail or Microsoft 365 — inbox + calendar + driveClaude Project + CLAUDE.md — firm context

Lab 1 · AI Visibility

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Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Direct recommendation: best [practice area] in [city]

Tier 1 visibility test. Run on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and score whether your firm appears.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Practice area attorney in [city]

Discovery test that mirrors how a prospect actually asks AI for a referral.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Car accident referral test

PI-specific intent query. Tests whether AI surfaces your firm in a high-urgency scenario.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Estate planning referral test

Estate-specific intent query.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Landlord/tenant deposit dispute

Adjacent-need test. Often catches firms that miss broader L/T queries.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Compare top 3 firms in [city]

Comparison test. Surfaces whether AI puts you in the consideration set.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Reviews check for your firm

Reputation surfacing test. Tells you what AI says about your reviews.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityCompetitive Intel

Head-to-head with named competitor

Direct competitor comparison. Shows how AI frames you vs them.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Should I hire your firm?

Hire-intent test. Measures whether AI advocates for you.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Client testimonial summary

AI summary of what clients say about you.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

DUI emergency intent

Tier 3 high-urgency intent test. Criminal defense reach.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Divorce + custody intent

Family law high-stakes intent test.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Employment discrimination intent

Employment law intent test.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Workplace injury intent

Workers' comp / PI hybrid intent test.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Immigration green card intent

Immigration intent test.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Generate full schema markup

Produces complete JSON-LD code ready to paste into your website (LegalService, Attorney, FAQPage).

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

Google Search Console gap analysis

Produces a list of queries where Google ranks you but AI ignores you.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

GBP description rewrite

Produces an optimized Google Business Profile description tuned for AI extraction.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityMarketing

FAQ content generation (20 questions)

Produces 20 question-and-answer pairs sized for website content and FAQ schema.

Lab 1 · AI VisibilityCompetitive Intel

Competitor AI visibility audit

Produces a side-by-side AI visibility comparison across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.

Lab 2 · Ranql + Ads

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Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsCompetitive Intel

Competitor Meta Ad Library teardown

Full teardown of every active Meta ad a competitor is running, ranked by longevity.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsMarketing

Steal the longest-running ad hooks

Extracts the angle/offer/hook from a competitor's longest-running ads and drafts your variations.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsMarketing

Google Ads negative keyword list builder

Builds a negative keyword list grouped by theme from your search terms report.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsMarketing

Local Services Ads application narrative

Drafts the LSA application narrative including the 3 service categories and required professional bio.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsOperations

Situation report

Where your firm stands across AI visibility, local, ads, reputation, content.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsStrategy

90-day growth plan

North star metric, budget split, 12-week calendar, KPIs, quick wins.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsMarketing

Market social pulse

What's working RIGHT NOW on Meta, Instagram, TikTok in your market.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsMarketing

Ads strategy document

Synthesized ad strategy plus headlines library across Google and Meta.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsCompetitive Intel

Competitor Meta teardown (single competitor)

Every active Meta ad from one competitor with longevity scoring.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsCompetitive Intel

PPC keyword gap

Keywords your competitors bid on that you don't.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsOperations

Reviews deep analysis

Sentiment, themes, and gaps across your Google reviews.

Lab 2 · Ranql + AdsMarketing

AI visibility recheck

Re-run the Lab 1 AI visibility audit with current data and a delta vs competitors.

Lab 3 · Claude Project

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Lab 3 · Claude ProjectOperations

Email triage rubric — Personal Injury

Paste into your Project's Custom Instructions. Claude classifies every email by matter type and urgency.

Lab 3 · Claude ProjectOperations

Email triage rubric — Family Law

Family-law-specific triage rubric. Paste into Project Custom Instructions.

Lab 3 · Claude ProjectOperations

Email triage rubric — Criminal Defense

Criminal-defense triage rubric. In-custody clients routed top priority.

Lab 3 · Claude ProjectOperations

Daily inbox triage (weekdays 7:30 AM)

Schedule inside Claude Cowork to run every weekday morning. Triages last 16 hours of email by urgency.

Lab 3 · Claude ProjectCase Status

Weekly opposing-counsel roundup (Mondays 8 AM)

Pulls every email from opposing counsel domains in the last 7 days, summarizes per active matter.

Lab 3 · Claude ProjectCase Status

End-of-week client update drafts (Fridays 4 PM)

Drafts a one-paragraph plain-English client update per active matter. Saves to Gmail drafts.

CEO Prompts · Operations

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CEO Prompts · OperationsOperations

Inbox triage by partner-level priority

Sorts the last 24-48h of email into Reply Now / Reply Today / Delegate / Read-and-File / Ignore, with draft replies.

CEO Prompts · OperationsOperations

Calendar bucket review (rainmaker:admin ratio)

Past 14 days of meetings classified into Rainmaker / Client Work / Internal / Admin, with the top 3 time sinks.

CEO Prompts · OperationsFinance

Bank reconciliation — manual export path

Categorized monthly transaction report ready to paste into QBO. Manual PDF-export path, no Plaid required.

CEO Prompts · OperationsFinance

Bank reconciliation — Plaid MCP path

Live transaction triage and anomaly detection via Plaid MCP. No manual export.

CEO Prompts · Marketing

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CEO Prompts · MarketingMarketing

Facebook Ads performance review with Ranql cross-ref

Weekly read of which creatives are working, which are fatiguing, what to kill or scale. Cross-references competitors via Ranql.

CEO Prompts · MarketingMarketing

AI-driven referral source map

Identifies which AI platforms and which queries are sending leads, by pattern-matching against intake notes.

CEO Prompts · Sales

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CEO Prompts · SalesSales

Stale lead reactivation by stall reason

Pulls inactive leads, segments by stall reason, drafts a 2-message reactivation sequence per segment.

CEO Prompts · SalesSales

CEO-grade intake script rebuilt from real call data

Reads your actual consult call transcripts, finds what correlates with signed cases, drafts an intake script using your firm's winning language.

CEO Prompts · Compliance

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CEO Prompts · ComplianceCompliance

Pre-filing AI-output verification rubric

Pass/fail verification report against any AI-drafted document before it leaves your office. Every citation, statute, deadline flagged.

CEO Prompts · Strategy

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CEO Prompts · StrategyStrategy

Counterparty diligence prep before a high-stakes call

One-page brief on a person or firm before a high-stakes call. You walk in knowing more about them than they expect.

CEO Prompts · Legal Research

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CEO Prompts · Legal ResearchLegal Research

Vendor agreement red-flag review

Red-flag report on any agreement a vendor sent you. Quotes the exact clause, proposes redline language, ranks severity.

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