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Claude Promptsfor Law Firm Owners

61 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 6 · Cowork, Connectors & Scheduled Tasks

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Lab 6 · Cowork, Connectors & Scheduled TasksOperations

Morning Triage — daily command center

Scheduled task that pulls 24-hour Gmail, today's Calendar, and your top 3 priorities into a Slack DM every morning. The first thing on your phone.

Lab 6 · Cowork, Connectors & Scheduled TasksOperations

Reply Drafter — draft Gmail replies in your voice

Companion task to Morning Triage. Drafts replies in your voice for every flagged email and saves them as Gmail drafts. You review and hit send.

Lab 6 · Cowork, Connectors & Scheduled TasksOperations

Intake Funnel Dashboard — live artifact

Connects to your firm's lead-tracking Google Sheet and renders a live dashboard with KPI tiles, funnel chart, ROI by source, campaign performance, practice-area breakdown, and recent leads. Refreshes when the sheet updates.

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.

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 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.

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 · OperationsOperations

New-lead intake brief (firm-aware)

Structured intake brief on a single new lead with ICP fit score, statute window estimate, conflict flags, and a sign/consult/refer/decline recommendation. Pulls every input from the firm's CLAUDE.md and Knowledge files so the output sounds like it came from your office, not a generic LLM.

CEO Prompts · OperationsOperations

Weekly calendar review with drift score

Past 7 days reviewed for action-item completion plus next 7 days flagged for risk. Identifies meetings without agendas, action items that never shipped, and back-to-back clusters that signal burnout.

CEO Prompts · OperationsOperations

SOP from observed work

Generates a clean SOP a new hire could follow on day one, extracted from your last 10 emails matching a recurring task pattern. Writes the SOP in your firm's actual voice and steps, not a generic template.

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 · SalesSales

ICP qualification rubric on the live intake queue

Scored and sorted list of every active lead, with decline-with-referral notes for the bottom tier and fit-rationale notes for the top tier.

CEO Prompts · SalesSales

Pre-consult prep email generator

Booked-prospect prep email — confirms, lists 3 to 5 documents to bring, pre-frames the call as a working session instead of a sales pitch.

CEO Prompts · SalesSales

24-hour and 3-day post-consult follow-up cadence

Three-touch sequence (24-hour text, 48-hour case-study email, 3-day urgency email) personalized per unsigned consult.

CEO Prompts · Competitive Intel

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CEO Prompts · Competitive IntelCompetitive Intel

Battle-Tested Ad Spotter (Ranql)

Splits every competitor's Meta and Google ads into BATTLE-TESTED (60-90+ days), WORKING (30-59), or PRIMING (<30) buckets so you only model strategy on what already converts. Drafts two fresh variations of each battle-tested winner in your firm voice.

CEO Prompts · Competitive IntelCompetitive Intel

Brand-Defense Audit (Ranql)

Surfaces every competitor bidding on your firm name in Google paid search, then drafts a brand-defense Google Ads campaign that beats each one on its specific angle.

CEO Prompts · Competitive IntelCompetitive Intel

Positioning Weakness Scan (Ranql)

Two-column read of your firm vs. a named competitor — where you're clearly ahead, where you're clearly behind, and the single highest-leverage move to take ground in the next 30 days. Pulls from websites, GBPs, social and AI visibility.

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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