# legal-tech

A two-person boutique law firm uses Claude to handle the workload of over a dozen associates, from contract review to legal research. Ten years of practice knowledge became Claude Skills, and general-purpose AI outperformed legal vertical tools.

Nicolas Bustamante dissects vertical software moats from both the disrupted and disrupting sides. Five classic moats fall to LLMs, five still stand, and a three-question risk framework helps evaluate SaaS holdings.

Anthropic drops Claude Legal Plugin on Cowork — auto contract review, risk flagging, NDA triage included. Legal software stocks tumble as the market reprices the entire industry. When your AI assistant is 100x faster than a lawyer, how many lawyers does your team actually need?