You can now create a mini Cursor for lawyers experience that supports multi-doc editing and creation with just a ~$20/month Claude Code subscription if you stitch together the right open source components (thanks to VS Code, Lawve AI’s preset and SuperDoc’s word extension). This is better than using a Word Add-In to manipulate one document at a time.
In this demo, I loaded 4 docx files onto VS code and asked Claude Code to make several changes to them in one go. The edits show up in track changes with my name as the author. The best part is you can make subsequent edits to the documents manually in the editor (keeping human in the loop). Claude Code can then accept all changes with a single command. And legal domain expertise hasn’t even entered the chat yet.
In part II of this post, I will (again using this VS Code set up) show precisely where domain expertise matters by using a skill to read 20 side letters and automatically generate a side letter compendium and personalized MFN election booklets, a workflow that usually takes junior funds associates days to complete. I will open source that skill right after.