The Field Guide: Field Kit Index

Every Field Kit post from The Field Guide, Laura Jeffords Greenberg's membership for legal professionals building AI-native legal functions. The summaries are free to read. The full posts, prompts, skills and templates are for members.

• I Read Slack Like a Newspaper After Vacation

  What returning from time off looks like when Wordsmith and Claude run legal intake in Slack, and why the setup work and constant iteration still matter.

• What is a Legal Engineer? The Skills Wheel, and How to Hire for It

  The nine skills and ways of thinking a legal engineer needs, how to split the role, and a seven-question hiring test. For Field Guide members.

• How I Use AI to Review Contracts When I Don't have a Playbook

  A General Counsel's step-by-step process for AI-powered contract review when there's no playbook, merging AI, outside counsel and stakeholder changes while staying in control.

• How AI Helped Me Feel Smug

  A GC used AI to trace who drafted 22 files and where one clause entered an agreement, in one minute. Why cheap audits change what “we never checked” means.

• Taking What You Build to Other AI Tools

  AI tools keep changing. Here's how a General Counsel builds legal AI workflows in blocks, so what you build moves with you to the next tool.

• The Risks that AI Keeps Missing and How to Fix It

  Most AI contract review flags legal severity and misses operational risk. A GC's framework for the five categories worth checking every time, plus a downloadable skill.

• The Skepticism I Bring to AI (And Why You Should Too)

  A General Counsel's practical method for stress-testing AI answers instead of trusting them — prompts, a devil's advocate skill, and a board-of-directors approach to critique.

• The Problem I Solve When I'm Too Tired to Solve the Real One

  A General Counsel on turning end-of-day burnout into a reusable AI skill: a fast, low-risk contract signability check built from her own manual workaround.

• AI can help you draft a playbook, but you’re still needed

  A GC's honest take on where AI helps with contracting, and why the judgment behind a playbook can't be drafted, only refined.

• When AI Fails

  A GC's honest account of an AI project that backfired: too many documents, three tasks stacked into one, and what broke when AI tried to help.

• Five Questions to Ask Before You Build with AI

  A GC's framework for deciding when to automate with AI and when to just document. Five questions that prevent building bots nobody uses.

• The Superstar Paralegal Skill You Need!

  A General Counsel's eight-category document proofread checklist built for AI review, portable to any tool, catching typos, defined terms, and wrong-party errors before signature.

• Confused about how to organize information in the AI age?

  Why jurisdiction-based filing breaks down for legal knowledge, and what actually makes a stable, reusable knowledge unit instead.

• Retest before you rebuild

  Why a failed AI retrieval test rarely means what you think it means, and the habit that saves you from rebuilding a system that isn't actually broken.

• Why I’ve been quiet

  An honest update on a recent autism diagnosis, and why the Field Guide is becoming Laura's one focus going forward.

• Claude Designs - Never Answer the Same Question Twice

  How a GC uses Claude Design to build a custom design system, so legal can turn repeat answers into polished, reusable visuals.

• On the Mic & Sometimes Video

  Listen to and watch Laura Jeffords Greenberg on legal and AI podcasts — prompting, AI-first legal, in-house counsel, and building a modern legal function.

• Github for Lawyers Video

  A plain-language GitHub explainer for GCs and legal ops professionals. What version control is, why it matters when building with Claude Code, and the five terms that cover everything.

• Video: Quick Start Guide to Claude

  A short video walkthrough of getting started with Claude chat, made for Connected Women in AI.

• Your AI Legal Department Starts with a Boardroom

  Build a 9-advisor AI boardroom for legal decisions — advisor profiles, context files, question framing, and a GC synthesis layer that creates a defensible audit trail.

• Learning Live: Legal Command Center in Claude

  Field Guide dispatch: video overview, PDF reference, and a live build session converting a Claude Chat legal dashboard into a working Cowork plugin.

• The Claude for Legal Workshop — Recording Now Available

  Anthropic's Claude for Legal webinar drew over 20,000 registrants. Watch the recording covering Cowork for contract review, redlining, and drafting — plus practical answers on security, privacy, and rollout.

• The Slack + Wordsmith Setup That Replaced My Regulatory Inbox

  A GC's step-by-step guide to building a weekly labor and employment intelligence briefing that runs automatically in Slack — using Wordsmith and Slack Workflow. Includes the full Skill file template to copy and adapt.

• Formatting Word Docs with AI

  The prompt sequence that actually works for AI formatting in Word — plus why tool selection matters more than your prompt. Copy-paste templates included.

• How I Decide What Legal Actually Gets Done

  An 8-minute talk from CPH Legal Tech on the triage and intake system a GC built from scratch: how requests come in, get routed and get prioritised.

• How to Build an AI Skill File for Legal Teams

  Most lawyers are stuck on prompts. Skills are the next layer — modular, persistent, and deployable on demand. Here's a real one from a GC's stack, annotated for what each section does and why.

• Operator, Orchestrator, Lazy

  Two months as GC, six questions answered. How new general counsels should think about metrics, reporting, AI leverage, and building legal functions that actually scale in the age of AI.

• The Context File — Full Breakdown

  A section-by-section breakdown of a GC's Claude context file, including the jurisdictional flags section, with a downloadable template for solo GCs and small legal teams.

• AI Legal Triage with Slack

  How a GC built an AI legal triage system using Wordsmith and Slack — including the original two-bucket framework, why it broke, the playbook work required, and the metrics that matter for in-house legal teams.

• I Built a Legal AI Comparison Tool in a Day. Here's How.

  How a GC built and deployed legal-ai-reports.laurajg.com in 24 hours, and why.

• Before You Compare Legal AI Tools, Answer These Four Questions

  How to compare legal AI tools without wasting time on the wrong ones. A practical framework for in-house lawyers covering tech stack, pain points, team size, and budget — plus an interactive quiz matching you to the right tools from a GC actively evaluating ten of them.

• Prompting to Create a Prompt

  Why jumping straight to execution is the costliest AI habit, the one question to ask before any complex task, and how to pressure-test a prompt first.

• Prompting with Purpose - 3

  Part 3: turning prompting skill into a personal AI strategy and competitive advantage.

• Prompting with Purpose - 2

  Part 2: how AI actually works and how to talk to it to get better results.

• Prompting with Purpose - 1

  Part 1 of a beginner series for Connected Women in AI: start using AI through curiosity and planning around what you already care about.

• Ten Prompting Tips

  Ten practical tips for writing prompts that get good results.

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