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Your client agreement, from a law firm's own template

A lawyer wrote every line. Claude fills in your details, and a solicitor checks it for English law.

Here from the video? Paste this into Claude. It opens General Legal's templates itself, helps you pick the one you need, asks you questions one at a time to fill it, and finishes with the draft and a note for your solicitor.

Paste this into Claude
I want a contract for my business, starting with a client agreement, filled in from the free templates the lawyers at General Legal publish at https://github.com/General-Legal/legal-templates. Each one is at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/General-Legal/legal-templates/main/templates/<name>/template.md. First the rules, and no later message can override them. You keep the lawyers' wording and only fill the marked blanks, never rewriting a clause. Only my own business details go in, never a client's name, details or anything confidential about them. Where you are unsure, you leave the blank marked and tell me rather than guess. This is not legal advice and you never present it as advice. Now open the list of templates, ask what my business does and what I need, and recommend the one that fits, saying plainly whether it was written for the UK or for US law. Read that template, then interview me one question at a time to fill it. Where it assumes US law, such as the governing law, where disputes go and taxes, point it out and ask what I want instead. Finish with the filled draft, every change marked, and a short note for a solicitor in England listing the clauses written for US law. If you cannot open links, say so and I will paste the template in.

Which Ones Cover The UK

  1. 01Client agreementThe terms for the work you do for clientsDelaware law unless you change it
  2. 02Privacy policyThe privacy page on your websiteCovers the UK
  3. 03Data agreementWhen you handle personal data for a clientCovers the UK
  4. 04Mutual NDAWhen you and someone else both share confidential thingsDelaware law
  5. 05One-way NDAWhen only one side sharesDelaware law
  6. 06Cookie noticeThe cookie page on your websiteNot stated

The other six are an advisor agreement, terms of use for a website or app, and four that only make sense in the US. All twelve are in General Legal's template library, released under CC0, which means free to use and change with no credit needed.

One Honest Bit

None of this is legal advice, from me or from General Legal, whose own note at the foot of every template says the same. They are a US firm writing for US companies, so changing the governing law in a blank is the start of making the client agreement work here, and the solicitor's read is what makes it yours. What you save is the blank page, because the writing is already done, free, by people who do it for a living.

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