Legal Team Briefing
Legal team briefings covering daily updates, topic deep-dives, or incident response
Your legal team's morning starts with 45 minutes of checking email, Slack, and the contract tracker to figure out what happened overnight. A data breach was reported at 2 AM and the team found out at 9 — seven hours of lost response time.
Who it's for: GCs who need a daily legal status digest, legal teams needing rapid incident briefings for data breaches, in-house counsel tracking contract deadlines and regulatory changes, legal ops managers keeping the team aligned, any legal department that starts the day playing catch-up
Example
"Generate a daily legal team briefing" → Morning digest: 3 contracts pending signature (1 overdue), upcoming regulatory deadline next week, new litigation hold from yesterday's HR escalation, and a deep-dive brief on the EU AI Act implications for our product — all in one page
CLAUDE.md Template
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npx ccplaybooks add legal-team-briefing# Legal Team Briefing
Generate contextual briefings for legal work. Supports three modes: daily brief, topic brief, and incident brief.
**Important**: This workflow assists with legal processes but does not provide legal advice. Briefings should be reviewed by qualified legal professionals before being relied upon.
## Invocation
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brief daily # Morning brief of legal-relevant items
brief topic [query] # Research brief on a specific legal question
brief incident [topic] # Rapid brief on a developing situationGet new playbooks like this one
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What This Does
Generates contextual briefings for legal teams in three modes: a daily summary of legal-relevant items across email, calendar, and contracts; a topic research brief on a specific legal question across internal sources; or a rapid incident brief for developing situations like data breaches or litigation threats.
Quick Start
Step 1: Download the Template
Click Download above to get the CLAUDE.md file.
Step 2: Set Up Your Project
Create a project folder and place the template inside:
legal-briefings/
├── CLAUDE.md
├── briefs/ # Generated briefings
├── sources/ # Reference documents
└── templates/ # Custom brief templates
Step 3: Start Working
claude
Say: "Generate a daily legal brief for today"
Briefing Modes
| Mode | Use Case | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Brief | Start your day with a scan of legal-relevant items | Urgent items, contract pipeline, new requests, calendar |
| Topic Brief | Research a specific legal question across internal sources | Summary, background, precedent, next steps |
| Incident Brief | Rapid context for developing situations | Situation summary, timeline, immediate actions |
Tips
- Be specific with topic briefs -- the more context you provide about the legal question, the more targeted the research will be
- Speed matters for incidents -- incident briefs prioritize rapid context over completeness; you can always request a deeper dive later
- Note source gaps -- the assistant will flag which sources were checked and which were unavailable so you know the completeness of the report
- Briefs are not legal advice -- all briefings should be reviewed by qualified legal professionals before being relied upon
Example Prompts
"Generate a daily legal brief for today"
"Brief me on our GDPR compliance posture across all contracts"
"Incident brief: we received a data breach notification from a vendor"
"Topic brief on our standard indemnification provisions"
"What contracts are expiring this week?"