Move faster on routine legal work without giving up judgment.

This is a five-minute overview of The Leveraged Attorney, a course in The Leverage Years catalog. It is designed for licensed attorneys in U.S. jurisdictions who want to use Claude AI as a practical, disciplined part of how they work — not as an experiment, and not as a replacement for legal judgment.

What the course is

The Leveraged Attorney is a structured workflow course built around Claude. It has 74 lessons organized into nine applied modules, an Intro module, a choice module, a nine-lesson Prompt Vault, a Capstone, and a bonus section covering the current legal AI market. When you finish, you leave with a working, 17-section SOP Binder customized for your practice. Not notes. A system.

The course costs $395 at founding access. The mature price will be $795.

Who it is for

This course is for practicing attorneys admitted in at least one U.S. jurisdiction who are handling real matters now and want a repeatable, defensible way to work with AI.

If you have tried Claude on one or two tasks and found the results inconsistent, the problem is almost certainly not the tool — it is the absence of a protocol. This course gives you the protocol.

If you have not used Claude at all yet, that is fine. The Intro module covers setup in roughly 15 minutes, and the first applied modules are designed to produce something useful on a real matter within your first week.

The foundation first

Before you apply Claude to client work, you move through two foundational modules.

Module 1 — The Legal AI Clean Room. This covers what data leaks, when, and to whom. You build a matter isolation workflow using Claude's Projects feature, learn the Red / Yellow / Green data classification protocol — which information is safe to use as-is, which needs sanitization, and which should not go into an AI tool at all — and you establish a Pre-Session Protocol you run before every AI-assisted work session.

Module 2 — Confidentiality and Redaction. You learn a practical substitution system for removing identifying information from documents before they are used as AI inputs, along with a response protocol for the cases where something slips.

After Modules 1 and 2, there is a Foundation Gate: five short acknowledgement statements covering Clean Room use, redaction, attorney responsibility, citation verification, and policy compliance. This is not gatekeeping. It is professional discipline — the same sequencing a responsible firm would require before deploying any new system on client matters.

The applied modules

Module 3 — Contract Review. You build the Review Associate Framework: how to structure documents for AI input, run clause-by-clause interrogation, use the Red Flag Prompt Library to surface risk, and produce a reusable Contract Review Template.

Module 4 — Research Organization. Raw notes become structured memos. The module covers multi-authority synthesis, a strict citation-every-time standard, and jurisdiction-specific research frameworks. Lesson 4.6 covers organizing a research drop inside Claude's Cowork environment when you are working across multiple sources at once.

Module 5 — Drafting Support. You use Claude to generate motion first drafts, produce specific brief sections, stress-test your argument from the opposing side, calibrate tone and voice for different courts and contexts, and run a Pre-Filing Protocol before anything goes out.

Module 6 — Opposing Counsel Simulator. You set up a configured opposing counsel persona and use it to find holes in your argument before opposing counsel does. The module includes workflows for deposition preparation in 30 minutes, cross-examination preparation, and motion opposition analysis.

Module 7 — Client Intake and Triage. You build a matter classification system, generate customized intake questionnaires, draft engagement letter outlines, and create client communication templates.

Module 8 — Verification and Supervision. This module covers the four specific patterns where Claude produces errors that affect attorneys — and how to catch each one. You build a Citation Verification Workflow, complete a 10-Point Supervision Checklist, and design your own QC protocol. There is also a lesson on billing for AI-assisted time.

Module 9 — The Prompt Vault. Forty-plus production-ready prompts organized by workflow: contract review, research, drafting, adversarial preparation, and intake. The vault is designed to be built out and maintained over time — including a lesson on how to identify and correct prompt drift as your practice evolves.

What you leave with

The Capstone is a 17-section Digital Associate SOP Binder assembled across the course. It is not a summary of what you learned. It is a working operational document you use in practice. You also receive full access to the Prompt Vault, a 2026 Legal AI Market Update covering where Claude fits alongside other tools in the legal market, and an audio companion version of the course.

Common questions

Do I need to know anything about AI before I start? No. The Intro module covers what Claude is, how it works, and how to set it up in about 15 minutes.

Is this safe to use on real matters? The course is built specifically around that question. The Clean Room, the redaction system, the Foundation Gate, and the verification modules exist because the answer depends on what you put in, what jurisdiction you are in, and what your firm and client agreements allow. This course walks through all of it.

The outcome

You use Claude with a repeatable system. You are not improvising prompts. You are not hoping the output is accurate without checking. You have a protocol for data, for drafting, for review, and for verification — and you have documented it in a binder you can hand to a colleague or use as the foundation of a firm-wide standard.

That is what the course is designed to produce.

The Leveraged Attorney. For licensed attorneys ready to work with AI carefully, practically, and at the level their clients deserve.