Legal Hold Manager
Drafts, refreshes, releases and reports on litigation legal holds for tracked matters.
- Repository
- anthropics/claude-for-legal
- Stars
- 9,870
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
Once installed, the agent can help manage a legal hold, which is a formal company instruction to preserve documents and data because a lawsuit or investigation is expected. It drafts the hold notice as a Word file, updates a tracking log of holds for each matter, schedules the next refresh reminder, and produces a status report across all matters. Before issuing, refreshing or releasing a hold, it checks that the matter has already been intaken and logged, and it asks for explicit confirmation before anything is sent or written.
Great for
- In-house legal teams tracking several active matters and their hold deadlines
- Paralegals or legal ops staff who prepare hold notices for attorney review
- Attorneys who want a first draft of a hold notice and a summary of legal issues to verify
Skip it if
- Non-lawyers issuing a hold without attorney review: the skill itself says scope and timing carry legal consequences and points users to a licensed attorney first
- Jurisdictions or regulatory regimes the forum-specific research does not cover: preservation rules differ by forum and the draft is only a starting point to confirm with counsel
Try asking
- “Issue a hold for the Acme contract dispute matter, covering contracts, emails and Slack for the named custodians”
- “Refresh the hold on the Smith employment matter and flag any custodians who have left the company”
- “Release the hold on the closed vendor matter and draft the release notice”
- “Give me a portfolio-wide legal hold status report”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
legal-hold.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip legal-hold.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip legal-hold.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Run matter-intake first for every matter; the skill refuses to issue, refresh or release holds on matters not in the log.
- Have counsel review the scope, custodian list and forum-specific research before sending any notice; the skill marks these fields for SME verification.
- Keep the CLAUDE.md house template and privilege marking configured so notices use the correct attorney-client marking rather than the work-product header reserved for internal documents.
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from anthropics/claude-for-legal under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.