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Claude for Legal · ANZ · Founding Cohort 2026

Your firm, live on Claude for Legal in ten business days.

The activation programme built for ANZ law firms and in-house teams. Your highest-value workflows live, your governance documented, your team trained and producing on real matters. Start with a paid Readiness Assessment, credited in full against your activation.

10 daysto live on approved matters, governance documentedSource: David and Goliath activation benchmark
Book your Readiness Assessment · $1,500Book a 20-minute call

The Path

Three steps. Start with the map.

01

Readiness Assessment

Five business days. A written assessment and a firm-specific activation roadmap. $1,500, credited to your activation.

02

The Activation

Ten business days. Live on approved matters, governed to enterprise standard. Six deliverables, partner signed off.

03

Intelligence Retainer

Ongoing. Your daily brief, support, and recalibration as your firm and the product evolve.

Founding Cohort 2026

Three founding places for ANZ firms.

We are taking three founding firms through the full activation this year. Founding firms receive founding pricing in exchange for a results case study and a reference. You help shape the programme, and you get our full attention and a delivery method proven before yours.

Founding activation

from $15,000

Scoped from your assessment.

Standard programme

from $40,000

Once the founding cohort closes.

Intelligence retainer

from $1,500 per month

Ongoing.

Apply for a founding place

The Deliverables

You do not leave with a slide deck. You leave operational.

Six deliverables, partner signed off. Working assets your firm owns and keeps:

A calibrated prompt library

Calibrated to your practice areas and proven on your own matters.

Before and after time data

Measured on real work and signed off by a partner.

A governance pack

Acceptable use policy, privilege framework, verification workflow, enforced not just written.

A trained team

Every fee earner trained and producing on real matters, not watching a demo.

A self-populating knowledge base

A knowledge base that fills itself from your matters.

Configured practice areas

Your practice areas configured across the relevant Claude for Legal plugins.

What Firms Are Seeing

Evidence, not promises.

66%

reduction in M&A due diligence cost

DG activation benchmark

69%

reduction in employment-suite drafting time

DG activation benchmark

Minutes

to a reviewed NDA, against your own playbook

DG activation benchmark

~25 min

to a verified research memo, from two hours

DG activation benchmark

240 hours saved per lawyer per year (Thomson Reuters); 16% of Australian firms use legal AI daily, against 49% globally (Thomson Reuters). The gap is the window.

Where it hurts

The pressure on legal teams right now

Document review billing every client now questions

Corporate clients in banking, resources, and infrastructure are asking firms to justify hourly rates for work Claude can do in a fraction of the time. The billing model question is not coming. It is already here. The firms building their AI billing model now are setting the terms. The firms that wait will have it imposed on them.

No governance framework before AI touches client matters

A 2025 US District Court ruling confirmed AI tool interactions are not automatically protected by legal professional privilege. The ANZ position has not settled. Most firms have no acceptable use policy covering client matter rules, privilege risk, or what human review is required before an AI-assisted output goes to a client. That gap is the liability.

Three regulatory pressures now bearing on firms

APRA CPS 230 operational resilience requirements are in force. AML/CTF obligations now extend to lawyers. Privacy Act automated decision-making transparency obligations are being phased in. Firms deploying AI without a documented governance framework are behind on all three.

Governance first

Four questions to answer before Claude touches a client matter.

Most firms cannot answer all four. We resolve every one before your team runs a single prompt on a live matter.

01

Is a Claude interaction on a client matter legally privileged?

The ANZ position has not settled. How you configure this determines your exposure.

02

Does client data leave your environment?

The answer depends on which account your lawyers are using. Most do not know.

03

Do you have an AI policy that covers client matter rules specifically?

A generic AI policy is not sufficient. Most firms do not have one that is.

04

If Claude assists with AML/CTF due diligence, is that step documented?

AML/CTF obligations now extend to law firms. The answer needs to be yes, and for most firms it is not.

We answer all four for your firm before deployment. That conversation is where we start.

Book the governance conversation

What we deploy

Legal use cases we ship in weeks, not quarters

Document Review Automation

Claude reviews discovery sets, due diligence bundles, and contract portfolios against a structured issue list. The agent surfaces flagged clauses, missing definitions, and risk items ranked by severity. Reviewers focus only on escalated items, not the full document set.

Before

A team of four lawyers spends three weeks reviewing 4,000 documents for a due diligence matter. Senior associate time is consumed by low complexity document triage.

After

Claude processes the same document set in under two days, delivers a ranked issue register, and escalates 340 flagged items for senior review. The senior associate reviews outputs, not raw documents.

Contract Analysis with iManage and NetDocuments Connectors

The contract analysis agent connects directly to your document management system via iManage or NetDocuments connectors, pulls the relevant matter documents, and applies a configurable review playbook. Outputs are written back to the matter file as a structured memo, not a chat transcript.

Research and Brief Drafting

Claude drafts research memoranda, judicial summaries, and first pass written arguments against a structured research brief. The agent cites primary sources, flags jurisdictional variations between Australian states and New Zealand, and produces output in your firm house style. Partners review and finalise rather than drafting from scratch.

Matter Management Copilot

A matter management copilot tracks open actions, upcoming limitation dates, and client communications across your practice management system. Junior lawyers receive a structured daily digest of outstanding tasks and risk flags rather than relying on memory or manual calendar management.

Who it is for

Built for the people who carry the risk and the workload.

Managing Partners

You see the competitive risk and the governance exposure. Thirty-one per cent of your lawyers are already using AI on client matters. This puts your firm in control of it.

General Counsel

Your team is stretched and the regulatory timeline is real. CPS 230, the Privacy Act amendments, AML/CTF. AI compresses the work, governance keeps you safe.

Legal Operations

You know AI could help. You need the prompts, the templates, and the verification workflow that make it safe to use on real matters. That is what we install.

The programme

Five parts. Four weeks. Your team operational at the end.

A structured sequence, not a workshop. Each part produces something your team uses on a live matter the same day. The detail is for our conversation. The shape is this:

01

Research

From a question to a verified memo, in a fraction of the time.

02

Drafting

First-draft documents from a structured brief. The blank page is gone.

03

Due Diligence

Document review at a pace that changes your fixed-fee economics.

04

Client Communications

Letters and updates that used to take an hour, in minutes.

05

Knowledge and Growth

Capture what every matter teaches. Win the next one faster.

That is the shape. What happens inside each part is calibrated to your firm. We will show you on the call.

The Activation · Ten Business Days

Four modules, one operating system

01

Foundation · Days 1 to 2

Claude configured to your firm: your practice areas, your house style, and your positions. Connected to your document system and scoped so it only ever reaches the matters it should.

02

Workflow · Days 3 to 4

Your highest-value workflows live and calibrated to your firm: contract and NDA review, research, drafting, due diligence, client communications. A prompt library proven on your own matters, with human review built into every step.

03

Agentic · Days 5 to 6

A knowledge base that fills itself from your matters, and a daily intelligence brief that arrives before your team starts.

04

Governance · Days 8 to 10

Your AI policy, privilege framework, and audit posture, enforced and partner signed off before a single client document enters the system unsupervised.

Why David and Goliath

Legal training and AI depth. Both directions.

David and Goliath is led by Josh Morrow, who holds a Bachelor of Laws from Deakin University and has completed the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme and MIT's Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy.

The privilege question, the billing model shift, the regulatory timeline: these are not abstract. They are the practice of law, understood from the inside, paired with AI implementation expertise built specifically around Claude. That combination is rare, and it is the reason the firms we activate go live governed and producing from day one.

Every workflow we ship is proven on your own matters before your team relies on it.

LLB · Deakin UniversityOxford AI ProgrammeMIT AI: Business Strategy

The window

The timeline is not waiting for your firm to be ready.

AML/CTF

In force

AML/CTF obligations now extend to law firms. AI-assisted due diligence must be documented.

APRA CPS 230

In force

Operational resilience requirements apply. Your APRA-regulated clients are asking about your AI operational resilience.

Privacy Act

Legislated

Automated decision-making transparency obligations are being phased in. Firms deploying AI without a documented governance framework are exposed.

The firms that move now will have twelve months of data before their peers begin evaluating. That window is open today.

Readiness Assessment

Book your Readiness Assessment

Five business days to a written, firm-specific assessment and activation roadmap. $1,500, credited in full against your activation.

We will only use your details to arrange your assessment and follow up once.

What firms ask before they start

A paid, facilitated diagnostic. You receive a written, firm-specific assessment and an activation roadmap within five business days. $1,500, credited in full against your activation if you proceed.
The free tool scores your firm in five minutes and points you in a direction. The paid assessment gives you the firm-specific detail: your highest-value use cases, your named governance gaps, your indicative return against your own rates, and your roadmap.
Founding-cohort activations start at $15,000, scoped from your assessment. Standard programmes start at $40,000 once the founding cohort closes. The assessment fee is credited against either.
Three ANZ firms in 2026, at founding pricing, in exchange for a results case study and a reference.
A partner sponsor, a representative set of your own matters to work on, and roughly nine to eleven hours of each participant's time across the programme.
Claude is a first-draft tool, and every output passes through a verification workflow before it reaches a client. The hallucination rate on legal benchmarks is under one per cent, and the workflow we teach catches it. Your professional judgment remains the quality gate. We show you exactly how this works on the call.
With the enterprise configuration we set up, prompts and outputs are not used to train any model, and data residency is confirmed in writing before deployment. This is materially different from the consumer tools your lawyers may already be using. We put the governance in place before anything goes live.
All documents processed through a Claude Activation deployment remain within your firm controlled infrastructure or a dedicated tenancy. No client matter content is used to train Anthropic models. The activation includes a privilege classification layer that flags documents before they are submitted to any AI process, giving the supervising lawyer a clear decision point before sensitive material is processed.
Unsanctioned consumer tools on client matters are the risk, not the solution. This is a governed, purpose-built deployment with a privilege framework, a verification workflow, and prompts calibrated to your practice. It turns shadow AI into a controlled firm capability.
Harvey is a purpose built legal AI platform that sits on top of GPT 4 and has developed significant training data from partner law firms. Claude for Legal uses Anthropic Claude models and is deployed by David and Goliath as a structured activation with integration into your existing document and practice management systems. Harvey targets Am Law 100 and Global 100 firms with a platform licence model. Claude Activation is designed for ANZ mid market firms that need production grade deployment without a multi year platform contract.
The evidence from firms that have deployed AI is that hours do not drop. Capacity increases. The firms that handle this well make a deliberate billing model decision early. That is one of the first conversations we have with you.
Yes. The Claude Activation for Legal programme includes connectors for iManage Work 10 and NetDocuments as standard. Documents are retrieved via the relevant API, processed within the matter context, and outputs are written back to the matter file. We do not require documents to be exported from your DMS to a third party system.
Yes. Claude Activation for Legal defaults to Australian resident infrastructure via Anthropic AWS Sydney endpoints. For firms with New Zealand data residency requirements, we configure accordingly during the governance module. Data residency configuration is documented as part of the AI Governance deliverable so your privacy officer has a clear record.
Conflict and ethical wall configuration is handled during the AI Governance module. The activation maps your firm conflict checking process and ensures the agent does not surface matter content across ethical wall boundaries. For firms using IntApp Conflicts or equivalent systems, we integrate the conflict status as a pre condition before any document retrieval is triggered.
Day one. Every part of the programme produces usable output on a real matter the same day it runs. Your firm is live on approved matters in ten business days.

Start with the map.

Book your Readiness Assessment. Five business days to a firm-specific roadmap, credited in full against your activation.

Book your Readiness Assessment · $1,500Or book a 20-minute call