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Claude Promptsfor Law Firm Owners

72 prompts. 3 new every Friday. The newest five in each section are free to read in full.

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.

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

Lab 6 · Cowork, Connectors & Scheduled Tasks

Operations

Intake Funnel Dashboard — live artifactv052026

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.

Operations

Reply Drafter — draft Gmail replies in your voicev052026

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.

Operations

Morning Triage — daily command centerv052026

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 3 · Claude Project

Case Status

End-of-week client update drafts (Fridays 4 PM)v042926

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

Case Status

Weekly opposing-counsel roundup (Mondays 8 AM)v042926

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

Operations

Daily inbox triage (weekdays 7:30 AM)v042926

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

Operations

Email triage rubric — Criminal Defensev042926

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

Operations

Email triage rubric — Family Lawv042926

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

Operations

Email triage rubric — Personal Injuryv042926

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

Lab 2 · Ranql + Ads

Marketing

AI visibility recheckv042226

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

Operations

Reviews deep analysisv042226

Sentiment, themes, and gaps across your Google reviews.

Competitive Intel

PPC keyword gapv042226

Keywords your competitors bid on that you don't.

Competitive Intel

Competitor Meta teardown (single competitor)v042226

Every active Meta ad from one competitor with longevity scoring.

Marketing

Ads strategy documentv042226

Synthesized ad strategy plus headlines library across Google and Meta.

Marketing

Market social pulsev042226

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

Strategy

90-day growth planv042226

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

Operations

Situation reportv042226

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

Marketing

Local Services Ads application narrativev042226

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

Marketing

Google Ads negative keyword list builderv042226

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

Marketing

Steal the longest-running ad hooksv042226

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

Competitive Intel

Competitor Meta Ad Library teardownv042226

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

Lab 1 · AI Visibility

Competitive Intel

Competitor AI visibility auditv041526

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

Marketing

FAQ content generation (20 questions)v041526

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

Marketing

GBP description rewritev041526

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

Marketing

Google Search Console gap analysisv041526

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

Marketing

Generate full schema markupv041526

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

Marketing

Immigration green card intentv041526

Immigration intent test.

Marketing

Workplace injury intentv041526

Workers' comp / PI hybrid intent test.

Marketing

Employment discrimination intentv041526

Employment law intent test.

Marketing

Divorce + custody intentv041526

Family law high-stakes intent test.

Marketing

DUI emergency intentv041526

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

Marketing

Client testimonial summaryv041526

AI summary of what clients say about you.

Marketing

Should I hire your firm?v041526

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

Competitive Intel

Head-to-head with named competitorv041526

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

Marketing

Reviews check for your firmv041526

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

Marketing

Compare top 3 firms in [city]v041526

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

Marketing

Landlord/tenant deposit disputev041526

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

Marketing

Estate planning referral testv041526

Estate-specific intent query.

Marketing

Car accident referral testv041526

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

Marketing

Practice area attorney in [city]v041526

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

Marketing

Direct recommendation: best [practice area] in [city]v041526

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

CEO Prompts · Operations

Long-thread context handoffv060526

When a Claude chat is hitting its limits, produce a clean handoff brief to paste into a fresh session so the work continues without losing the thread.

SOP from observed workv050826

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.

Weekly calendar review with drift scorev050826

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.

New-lead intake brief (firm-aware)v050826

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.

Bank reconciliation — Plaid MCP pathv050426

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

Bank reconciliation — manual export pathv050426

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

Calendar bucket review (rainmaker:admin ratio)v050426

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

Inbox triage by partner-level priorityv050426

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

CEO Prompts · Marketing

Review response at scalev061226

Drafted replies to every unanswered review across Google, Yelp and Avvo in your voice, confidentiality-safe and under 80 words each, with flags on the reviews you should not answer and why.

Content topic generation from real casesv061226

Your last 30 intake forms become 12 article topics built from the questions clients actually ask before signing, each with a title, a 3-sentence hook and 5 H2s, in plain kitchen-table voice.

AI visibility audit (10-question test)v061226

Run the 10 searches a real client would type into ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini for your practice area. See where you show up, what the platforms say about you, and which 3 competitors get recommended when you don't.

Practice-page AI-readability rewritev060526

Rewrite a practice page so AI platforms cite it: client questions as H2s, jurisdiction-specific facts with numbers, a schema-friendly FAQ block, plus a list of claims to verify before publishing.

AI-driven referral source mapv050426

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

Facebook Ads performance review with Ranql cross-refv050426

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

CEO Prompts · Sales

ROI per signed case, by channelv060526

Cost per signed case, not per click, across every paid channel, ranked by ROAS, with a scale, hold or kill call on each and the instrumentation to fix any channel where attribution is missing.

24-hour and 3-day post-consult follow-up cadencev051526

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

Pre-consult prep email generatorv051526

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.

ICP qualification rubric on the live intake queuev051526

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-grade intake script rebuilt from real call datav050426

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

Stale lead reactivation by stall reasonv050426

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

CEO Prompts · Competitive Intel

Positioning Weakness Scan (Ranql)v052226

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.

Brand-Defense Audit (Ranql)v052226

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.

Battle-Tested Ad Spotter (Ranql)v052226

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 · Finance

P&L variance reviewv060526

Month-over-month and year-over-year P&L variance, flagging every line that moved more than 15 percent and listing the unexplained moves first.

CEO Prompts · Compliance

Pre-call self-review of a recorded conversationv052926

A candid, timestamped read on how you came across in a recorded conversation, scored 1-10 across clarity, confidence, listening, asking and closing, with a repair follow-up email drafted for you.

State-bar-specific AI use policy generatorv052926

A firm-specific AI Use Policy grounded in your state's most recent bar opinion plus ABA Formal Opinion 512, including client-disclosure engagement-letter language and a one-page training summary.

Confidentiality and privilege audit of a Claude Projectv052926

A privilege-and-confidentiality audit of a Project's Knowledge files and recent prompt history against ABA Model Rules 1.6 and 5.3 and your state equivalents, with a KEEP / REDACT / MOVE / REMOVE action on every file.

Pre-filing AI-output verification rubricv050426

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

CEO Prompts · Strategy

Strategic decision map for a multi-path crossroadv060526

When three or more options all look reasonable, a structured read on each (speed, cash, reversibility, hidden constraints, failure mode) plus a four-axis decision map that says which to run first given your real constraint.

Counterparty diligence prep before a high-stakes callv050426

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

Vendor agreement red-flag reviewv050426

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

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