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Off the Shelf Excellence: Why You Should Check Out Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 for Legal Drafting

Posted on December 23, 2025

If you are a corporate lawyer and interested in using generative AI for legal drafting but feel overwhelmed by the technical jargon, here is the short answer: You need to check out Anthropic’s latest generation of AI models, primarily Claude Opus 4.5 (the most powerful) and Claude Sonnet 4.5.

We spend a lot of time analyzing generative AI models and stress-testing the newest models and we really like Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5. Both models are great out of the box. They write with good flow, follow instructions, and don’t sound like robots. If you want to draft better documents today without a steep learning curve, go give them a try.

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