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Claude, configured for the way legal teams actually work.

Legal teams see the AI opportunity, whether that team is a law firm or an in-house department. The slow part has been the gap between Claude as a general-purpose assistant and the specific workflows of legal work. That is where we come in. Document review, intake, client communications, matter management, and drafting, configured around how your team works.

The hours go to the same places, every year.

Every legal team we talk to runs into the same handful of patterns. Different practice areas, same shape: deadline-driven document work where the only way to keep up has been more hours.

Intake
New matters arrive in inconsistent formats. Pulling out the key facts, conflicts, and next actions burns associate or paralegal time before billable work even starts.
Document review
First-pass review of contracts, productions, and discovery material eats hours that should be spent on judgment calls, not page-turning.
Client communications
Status updates, letters, and standard correspondence get drafted from scratch each time, even when the shape is identical from one matter to the next.
Matter management
Pulling together where a matter stands, who has done what, and what is due next pulls people away from the work itself.
Drafting
Initial drafts of standard documents and the routine bookends of larger filings take hours that the underlying judgment does not require.
Research summaries
Distilling case law and prior memos into something usable for the matter at hand is repeat work the team rarely gets credit for.

Concrete workflows, built around your practice.

We start with the work your team is already doing, calibrated to your voice, taxonomy, and review standards. The workflows below are the ones that show up in a typical week.

01
Intake summarizer
Inbound matter information turns into a structured matter record: parties, facts, dates, conflicts flag, suggested next actions. The reviewer signs off on the record instead of building it from scratch.
02
First-pass document review
A calibrated review assistant flags the clauses, terms, or issues your team cares about in a given matter type. The lawyer reviews the flags, not the whole document.
03
Correspondence drafter
Standard letters, status updates, and routine outbound communications drafted in your voice, against the firm's templates, ready for partner or associate review.
04
Matter status briefing
A short brief on where the matter stands, what has been done, and what is due next, generated from the team's existing notes and files. Useful for status calls, partner check-ins, and handoffs.
05
Research summarizer
Case law and prior memos summarized against the question at hand, with citations the lawyer can verify before relying on them. The lawyer still verifies everything before relying on it; the first pass just no longer takes the hours.
Why us, specifically

Legal taxonomy on the team, and one completed engagement behind us.

Shannon Advisory's legal work is led by Ryan Kashtan, a co-founder who practiced as an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell and holds a JD from Harvard Law School. He knows how legal work actually gets done, and what it costs when it's done by hand.

Behind that, one completed engagement in legal services: a deadline-driven, document-heavy operation in the adjacent ecosystem to a law firm. The anonymized case study is published now; the named version follows with the client's written approval.

Shannon Advisory is a member of the Claude Partner Network.

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Start with one workflow.

For most legal teams, the right first step is Build: one high-leverage workflow, turned into a working system your team runs, on a fixed timeline.

Recommended entry point
Build

One specific problem, turned into a working system. We build it, test it against your real work, and hand it over running. Pricing by proposal.

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Not sure where to start? Adopt is built for that: team training, a workflow audit, and an opportunity map that surface the workflow worth building first.

Questions firms ask before the first call.

We're a small firm, or a lean in-house team. Is a Claude implementation right for us?

Yes. This page is for the lean legal team, whether that is a small or midsize firm or an in-house department of a handful of lawyers. Both run intake, review, drafting, and matter management with more work than hands. We configure Claude for the way your team already runs that work and get everyone using it. The larger institutional legal-AI products serve a different scale of operation; this is built for what a lean team actually does in a week.

What about client confidentiality and data handling?

Confidentiality is the first decision in any legal engagement. We map data flow before we write a prompt: where matter information lives, who can see what, what stays inside the organization. Different deployment options carry different posture; we walk through them and pick the one that matches your obligations.

How long does a Claude implementation take for a legal team?

A typical Build engagement runs four to six weeks from kickoff to handoff. That is enough to design, build, test against real matter examples, document, and train the team. Larger or more integrated implementations take longer; we recommend starting with one workflow.

Do we need IT involvement?

Lightly, usually. For a workflow that lives inside a Claude account and operates on documents your team brings to it, IT involvement is minimal. For workflows that integrate with your document management or matter management system, IT or the vendor needs to be in the loop. We map that out during discovery, before anything gets built.

What if the team has already tried AI and it did not stick?

Most teams have. The reason it did not stick is almost always the same: someone tried a generic tool on a generic prompt, got a generic result, and stopped. The work is in the configuration and the workflow design. We start by finding where Claude will actually pay off for your team, then build for that.

Pick one workflow. Ship it in six weeks.

Tell us what is taking the hours at your firm, and we will give you a straight answer on whether we can help.

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