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Draft a demand letter from a completed intake, gated on a privilege / FRE 408 / waiver / admission checklist, with a .docx output, post-send checklist, and an offer to create a matter. Use when the user says "draft the demand", "write the [type] letter", or has a finished demand intake ready to turn into a sendable draft.
Copy the install command and let the AI configure it · recommended for beginners
Please install the "demand-draft" skill from askskill: 1. Download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/main/litigation-legal/skills/demand-draft/SKILL.md 2. Save it as ~/.claude/skills/demand-draft/SKILL.md 3. Reload skills and tell me it's ready
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/demand-letters/[slug]/intake.md. Refuse if missing or strategic block empty (for material demands).~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md → demand-letter practice, house style, seed-doc table.~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md; else soft template for the demand type.~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/demand-letters/[slug]/draft-v[N].docx using the docx skill.~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/demand-letters/[slug]/checklist.md (post-send checklist).matter-intake with pre-populated fields.Take a completed intake and produce a sendable draft. Most of the value is in refusing to draft until privilege, waiver, admission, and settlement-communication posture have been consciously addressed — the failure mode is a letter that waives privilege or constitutes an admission because no one paused to check.
Demand letters are advocacy, and every quoted line from a contract, an email, or a prior communication becomes an assertion the counterparty will test. Canonical statement in the plugin's CLAUDE.md shared guardrails; repeated here.
Verbatim quotes must be verbatim. Never put quotation marks around words attributed to the counterparty, their counsel, a witness, or any document unless you have the exact passage in front of you. When you want to characterize without the exact words:
[verify exact quote — email cite pending]."[verify exact quote] must be flagged in the reviewer note before the letter leaves.Pinpoint cites must support the whole proposition. If the demand asserts "Section 4.2 requires payment within 30 days upon invoice receipt," the cited section must cover the obligation AND the trigger AND the window. If it only covers one, split the cite (e.g., "Section 4.2 (payment obligation); Section 4.3 (30-day window)") or narrow the proposition. A contract cite that backs part of the demand is how the counterparty replies with the full text and flips the posture.
When the law or the record is against a point, don't dress it up as solid. When an argument in the demand is weak — the contract language is ambiguous, the authority cuts the other way, the damages theory is a stretch — flag it for the sender:
"The [claim / theory] here is weak because [authority / fact]. Options: (a) press it and frame as
[alternative framing], (b) drop it and rely on [stronger claim], (c) keep it as a hook but hedge the language.[review — strategic call]."
A demand letter that over-asserts gets a response that catalogs every overreach, shifts leverage, and burns the next round. The strongest demand letter is the one that concedes what's weak so the counterparty can't.
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Manage matter workspaces — create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter. Use in multi-client private practice to keep one client's context separate from another, or when a substantive skill needs to know which matter it's working in.
Draft a DMCA takedown notice, triage one you received, or draft a §512(g) counter-notice. Use when asserting copyright through a §512(c)(3) takedown with the fair-use and perjury gates, when an incoming takedown needs triage into comply / counter / engage / ignore options, or when drafting a §512(g)(3) counter-notice with the consent-to-federal-jurisdiction gate.
Search watched registries for community legal skills, showing matches with descriptions and offering to show the full SKILL.md before install. Use when the user says "browse", "search skills", "find a skill for", "what's out there for", or wants to add a new registry to the watchlist.
Case status summary by audience — client-facing (plain language), internal (for the professor), or court-ready (formal caption format per local rules). Same facts, different framing and depth. Use when a student needs to update the client, brief the professor, or prepare a court status report.
Draft a brief section in house style, consistent with the case theory — every fact cited, every case checked, every argument tied to the theory. Use when the user says "draft the [section]", "write the statement of facts", "argument section on [issue]", or needs a first draft of a brief section.
Brief a case in your preferred format. In drill-me mode, makes the student state the holding first. Use when the user says "brief [case]", "what's the holding in", "case brief", or pastes a case.