Anthropic has just released Claude for Word in Beta – in itself a major move, but even more significant is that the AI giant is intentionally targeting lawyers. And this may impact several legal tech companies.
For example, on the dedicated Anthropic page for Claude for Word, it lists several ‘example use cases’. The very first one is ‘Legal contract review’. It then gives the following Claude prompts that you can now use directly within Word:
- Summarize the key commercial terms: parties, term, governing law, and anything off-market
- Flag provisions that deviate from standard market position, ranked by severity
- Make the indemnification mutual and insert our standard fallback language
- Work through all five reviewer comments as tracked changes
- What did the counterparty change, and which revisions are dealbreakers?
It also states in its main marketing blurb that you can now ‘use Claude to review, redline, and draft documents [in Word]’ and this is designed for ‘professionals who work extensively with documents’.
Does that sound familiar…?
And on the Microsoft Word page, the screenshots it gives are of an NDA review.
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14 April – Linked in Comment
Laura Jeffords Greenberg
General Counsel at Worksome | Building AI-Native Legal Functions | Board Member & Speaker
Word for Claude failed the formatting challenge. ?
I maxed out my Claude usage trying to fix all the formatting issues.
Sara M. Kilian suggested I convert a PDF agreement to Word.
I did that with a contract that had many different sections including a general terms and conditions in two columns. I then added an AI generated DPA. There were different font sizes, font colors, indentations, etc.
Many times, when it fixed one error, it broke something else.
It could be user error, and having a chat rather than nicely laying out all the changes in one giant prompt. But even then, my hopes are not high…
I will try a different approach tomorrow and report back…
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