Module 1 · Kick off the build
Download the Law-Firm Build Kit
Here is the thing that makes the rest of this course copy-and-paste: the Law-Firm Build Kit. It is a small set of plain-text files that teaches Claude how a law firm’s website ought to be planned, written, built, and checked. You drop it into your project folder once, and every prompt after this one is short, because the expertise already lives in the folder.
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The CLAUDE.md file
Download the kit
DownloadWhat is inside: six expert skills
A “skill” here is just a written brief for one job — a document Claude reads in full before it starts that stage, so you get considered work instead of whatever it would have produced from a standing start. There are six, and they run in order:
brand-strategy
Interviews you about your practice, then writes what the firm stands for, how it sounds, and how it looks — colors, type, and a logo built from your name.
web-architecture
Plans every page and section — including where your phone number and your booking button go on each one — before a line is built.
copywriting
Writes the words in your voice, in plain English, and drops the phrases that get firms in trouble.
frontend-design
Builds the site so it looks like a firm you'd hire, and works properly on a phone.
compliance-check
Reads your finished site against the patterns that commonly breach attorney-advertising rules, and reports what it finds.
deploy
Handles the backup, the hosting, the domain, and the update loop you'll use forever.
It is a checklist, not a lawyer. It reads the words on your finished site and flags the patterns that get firms into trouble — superlatives, implied guarantees, results claims without context, specialist language, wording around testimonials. It cannot know your state’s particular requirements, and it does not pretend to. Module 6 is where all of that gets taught properly, including how to check your own state’s rules in about ten minutes. The skill is the machine half of that; your judgment is the other half.
Where it lands in your project
1my-firm-website/Your project folder from the last module. Two things go inside it, side by side: the CLAUDE.md file and the .claude folder.
2.claude/The folder Claude checks for the extra instructions you give it
3skills/The six skills above — Claude opens the right one at the right stage
Drop it into your project folder
- Find the downloaded
law-firm-build-kit.zipand unzip it — double-click on a Mac; right-click and choose Extract All on Windows. - Copy the
CLAUDE.mdfile and the.claudefolder into yourmy-firm-websitefolder, so they sit directly inside it — not inside another folder within it. - That is the whole installation. (On a Mac, the
.claudefolder is hidden from view by default — that is normal, and the next lesson confirms Claude can see it. On Windows it simply shows up like any other folder.)
You unzipped it and got a folder inside a folder. Some unzip tools wrap everything in an extra layer. Open it up until you can see CLAUDE.md and .claude side by side, and copy those two things — not the wrapper.
You can’t see the .claude folder after copying it in. On a Mac, folders whose names begin with a dot are hidden by default, so it is almost certainly there — press Cmd + Shift + . in Finder to show it. Windows does not hide these, so if File Explorer shows no .claude folder, it really did not get copied across: go back to the unzipped files and copy it again.
Inside my-firm-website you can see a file called CLAUDE.md and a folder called .claude, and nothing else. The next lesson is one paste, and then the building starts.
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