Claude Corporate-Legal Plugin
Run Anthropic's corporate-legal plugin: 13 skills across M&A diligence, board & corporate secretary work, and entity management. Modular cold-start activates only your practice areas. 8 lessons + certificate.
Anthropic shipped a corporate counsel plugin on May 12, 2026 — and it works across four practice modules
On May 12, 2026, Anthropic released Claude for Legal — twelve practice-area plugins. The corporate-legal plugin covers four practice modules: M&A deals, Board & Corporate Secretary, Public Company (coming next release), and Entity Management. The architecture is modular: activate only the modules that apply to your role.
This is the design choice that makes the plugin different from generic legal AI tools. A corporate secretary at a private company doesn’t need M&A diligence tooling. An M&A counsel doesn’t need entity compliance tracking. The modular cold-start writes only the relevant sections to your practice profile. The plugin’s behavior on every subsequent skill respects your activated modules.
This course walks the 13 skills: cold-start-interview (modular), diligence-issue-extraction, tabular-review, deal-team-summary, material-contract-schedule, closing-checklist, ai-tool-handoff (Luminance/Kira integration), board-minutes, written-consent, entity-compliance, integration-management, matter-workspace, customize — plus the dataroom-watcher scheduled agent that runs weekly. You’ll learn DGCL §141(f) and §228 mechanics for board and stockholder consents, materiality threshold drafting for purchase agreements, the buy-side vs sell-side practice profile flip, and the post-closing integration workplan (Day 1, 30, 90, 180).
You’ll come out with a CLAUDE.md profile installed at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/corporate-legal/CLAUDE.md, sample VDR-extracted outputs (material-contract-schedule + closing-checklist + deal-team-summary) for a representative deal, and a credential (CORP-XXXXXX) documenting the work. The plugin costs nothing beyond your Claude Pro subscription. The operating discipline this course teaches is the difference between AI that helps with corporate work and AI that you’d actually deploy on a $200M acquisition.
What You'll Learn
- Install Anthropic's corporate-legal plugin and run the modular cold-start to activate M&A, Board & Secretary, and/or Entity Management
- Apply `diligence-issue-extraction` and `tabular-review` against a VDR document set to produce a material-contract-schedule and closing-checklist
- Use `board-minutes` and `written-consent` to produce DGCL §141(f) and §228 compliant documents with precedent search and scope warnings
- Operate `entity-compliance` across multi-state filings with CT Corp report ingestion and CSV export
- Compose the `ai-tool-handoff` skill with Luminance or Kira for large-deal bulk extraction with Claude as the QA layer
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What You'll Build
Course Syllabus
Prerequisites
- Corporate counsel role at a private or public company, or M&A practice
- Recommended: The Hallucination Defense Playbook (HDP) for the verification protocol wrapping every plugin output
- Claude Cowork or Claude Code installed; ability to install plugins from the Anthropic marketplace
Who Is This For?
- In-house corporate counsel running M&A, board, or entity work
- Outside M&A counsel handling diligence-intensive deals
- Corporate secretaries and assistant secretaries managing board governance
- Legal ops handling multi-state entity compliance
- GCs at private and public companies (modular activation per role mix)
- Solo legal ops / fractional GC roles
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need Luminance or Kira to use this plugin?
No. The `ai-tool-handoff` skill is optional. Without a third-party tool configured, `diligence-issue-extraction` runs directly via Claude. For deals under ~1,000 documents this works well. For larger deals, Luminance or Kira provide bulk extraction and Claude becomes the QA layer above them.
How does the modular cold-start work — do I have to activate everything?
No. The cold-start interview asks which modules apply to your role (M&A, Board & Secretary, Public Company, Entity Management). Only relevant sections get written to your practice profile. A corporate secretary at a private company would activate Board & Secretary only. A public-company GC might activate all three currently shipped modules plus Public Company when it launches.
Can the entity-compliance skill replace CT Corporation?
Partially. The skill ingests CT Corp compliance reports (and similar registered agent service reports), so it works alongside rather than replacing. It produces a unified compliance calendar across registered agents, internal filings, and franchise-tax obligations. CT Corp still handles registered-agent service of process and state filing; the plugin handles the tracking layer.
Buy-side and sell-side — does the plugin handle both?
Yes. The Practice Profile captures which side applies to the specific deal. Buy-side emphasizes diligence quality, indemnification recovery, integration planning. Sell-side emphasizes disclosure precision, materiality scope, post-closing transition. Skills adjust posture accordingly per the side.
How does this work with the existing FindSkill.ai legal courses?
It's the third practice-area plugin course (after Litigation-Legal and Commercial-Legal). Pairs with The Hallucination Defense Playbook for the verification rail. Corporate counsel typically run multiple plugins (M&A diligence via corporate-legal, contract review via commercial-legal, litigation work via litigation-legal) — same operating discipline across all three.
