Legal Document Drafting and Formatting Skill

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Alessandro Dardano

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Just published a skill on Lawve AI: "Legal Document Drafting & Formatting" — available directly in Claude.

This is a formatting skill. Its core value is producing properly-formatted Word documents from scratch — something most professional AI tools still struggle with. The substantive legal content, precedents, and judgement come from the lawyer using it; the skill takes that input and turns it into a well-structured .docx.

The output covers proper typography, automatic clause numbering, defined-terms convention, structured recitals, signature blocks, and standard boilerplate. It is particularly valuable when work begins from scratch. The skill also reformats existing .docx documents to a consistent house style.

Thanks to Mark Pike at Anthropic for the inspiring webinars on how to put Claude to work in legal teams — they have shaped a lot of my thinking on how usable AI tools have become for in-house work.

This is the second skill published by lawyers from our in-house legal team, and we hope the legal community can benefit from it.

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Alessandro Dardano

English and Italian-qualified lawyer with 18+ years of experience in corporate M&A, transactional, energy, and project finance work across multiple European jurisdictions and the Middle East. Based in Amsterdam. Currently in-house General Counsel; previously in-house at SLB and FRV, and in private practice at DLA Piper, Chiomenti, and BonelliErede.

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