Curriculum · Law firms

Every lawyer drafting with AI.
Every citation still checked.

A curriculum built for partner-led Tallinn firms: first drafts from your own templates, case-file review at machine speed, and a verification protocol that keeps the lawyering with the lawyer.

Litigation & disputes M&A & transactions Insolvency ET / RU / EN drafting
The problem

Where the hours actually go

Partner hours leak into first drafts, bundle review and routine correspondence. The billable value is in judgment — but most of the week goes to production. And every AI conversation in a law firm starts (rightly) with confidentiality.

Week 1 starts the same way for every firm — an audit, then setup.

The foundation day happens on-site in Tallinn, before any industry-specific work: we audit how each team works, map the right Claude tool to each person, then set it up — so everyone leaves with a setup matched to their role.

  • Needs audit → a Claude tooling map for your team
  • Claude.ai Team accounts set up for every person
  • Claude Projects configured with your firm's context
  • Claude Cowork connected to files where it fits the work
  • Live demo on your firm's real work
  • Data-handling walkthrough + AI use policy
  • Next step agreed per person
Curriculum — weeks 2 to 4

Built for law firms. Run on your real work.

WEEK 2 · DEPARTMENT SKILL LABS

Each practice team gets its own Claude Project

The firm splits into practice teams. Each team configures a Claude Project loaded with their templates, precedents, and standard clauses — so every draft and research summary comes out in the firm's own style, not generic AI output. Labs run on a real closed matter so the team can judge the output against work they already know.

Drafting engine on your precedents

Claude Project loaded with your templates, standard clauses and house style: first-draft pleadings, contract mark-ups, engagement letters and client updates — in Estonian, Russian or English.

Document review & bundle summary

Case-file and due-diligence bundles summarised into issue lists, chronologies and inconsistency flags — processed in staged chunks for large files, with a human reviewing every output.

Meeting transcription → structured output

Client meeting notes or recordings pasted in → action list, key commitments, follow-up letter draft, and matter update — filed to the right folder. Eliminates the dictation backlog.

Insolvency & repeat filings

The repetitive filing and notification paperwork templated and pre-filled from the matter record — the lawyer reviews and signs off, not retypes.

The hallucination protocol — installed in Week 2, not mentioned in a footnote

Claude fabricates case citations with total confidence. It cites cases that don't exist, quotes statutes incorrectly, and produces plausible-sounding legal reasoning that doesn't hold up. This is not a quirk — it's a documented, consistent limitation of every large language model.

Every research and drafting workflow we build includes a mandatory verification step: AI drafts; the lawyer confirms every citation against a source they have read. We install this as a firm rule in Week 2, document it in the AI use policy, and build the verification prompt into the workflow itself — so it can't be skipped under deadline pressure.

Skills + Cowork What your practice teams build — and own

In the labs, each team builds reusable Claude Skills and Cowork workflows on its own real work. No coding required — a Skill is a plain-language file that captures how your firm wants the job done, and Cowork runs the multi-step version on your files:

  • Client intake → conflict-check checklist → draft engagement letter → matter folder assembled, run as one Cowork task
  • A drafting Skill that holds your precedents, house style and clause bank, so every first draft comes out in the firm's voice
  • Weekly matter-status digest drafted for client-facing partners to review and send
  • Incoming correspondence triaged and summarised against the right matter
WEEK 3 · REAL-WORK BRIEF

The week the skill becomes yours

Each lawyer takes one live deliverable — a pleading, a contract mark-up, a client memo — and produces it with the new setup during a normal work week. Time is logged before and after. The review session goes through what worked, what broke, and where the verification protocol caught something.

WEEK 4 · ROLLOUT & DEMO DAY

Owned, measured, handed over

Each practice team demos what it built to the whole firm. Every workflow gets a named owner and one metric — drafting hours per matter, turnaround on client letters — tracked from month one. Handover pack: prompts, Claude Projects, Skills, Cowork workflows, and the firm's AI use policy, documented and owned in-house.

Community evidence

What practitioners report — in their own words

Not our marketing — lawyers describing their own AI practice in public, on Reddit:

r/Lawyertalk
"Drafting tasks that used to take five hours can now be done in around 45 minutes… I treat AI like a highly capable junior associate: it does the initial drafting, quick research, or document breakdowns, and I verify the legal reasoning."

Counsel at a large US firm (corporate & asset finance, 10 years in practice) — also notes his group moved to fixed-fee work because AI made task time predictable.

Read the thread →
r/Lawyertalk
"I had Claude proofread something for me and in addition to some good proofreading suggestions, it got a mistake in the year for one of my citations. I tested in ChatGPT and Gemini, neither of which found the problem."

A practising lawyer on Claude as a second pair of eyes — the same drafting-plus-verification pattern our Module 2 protocol installs.

Read the thread →
r/Lawyertalk
"As a lawyer I use AI a lot. Usually for a rough draft after I've given it a lot of the specifics of the case and the laws that apply. I perform the legal research for the AI and then I edit and confirm the results."

The division of labour we teach: the lawyer owns research and judgment, the AI owns the typing.

Read the thread →

Public posts by independent lawyers and practitioners on Reddit, quoted as community evidence — not Soch clients, not Soch results. Case studies from the Tallinn cohort will be published as firms complete the programme.

The first question, answered: Confidentiality, answered up front: everything runs inside your firm's own Claude and Google Workspace accounts. Soch takes no copies of client files, and Module 1 includes a data-handling walkthrough plus a one-page AI use policy for the partners to adopt.
What we measure

One metric per department. From month one.

Drafting hours per matter
Client-letter turnaround
Bundle review time
Citations verified — 100%, by design
Pricing

Two tracks. Flat fees. Exact number before you commit.

AI Setup Day

€3,500–6,000

One on-site day in Tallinn — the Week-1 foundation on its own. Firms of 1–50 people.

AI Capability Sprint

€7,000–12,000

All four weeks of this curriculum — foundation day plus the law firms build labs, brief and demo day. Firms up to 100.

Flat, per-company pricing — no day rates, no scope creep. You get the exact figure on the scoping call, before you commit to anything.

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