Privacy Legal

Privacy Counsel Plugin

In-house privacy counsel workflows: DPA review, DSAR response drafting, PIA generation, and regulation-to-policy gap analysis. Built around a team practice profile learned from your actual privacy policy, DPA template, and a reference PIA.

Every output is a draft for attorney review — cited, flagged, and gated — not a legal conclusion. The plugin does the work: reads the documents, applies your playbook, finds the issues, drafts the memo. A lawyer reviews, verifies, and decides. Citations are tagged by source so you know which ones came from a research tool and which ones need checking. Privilege markers are applied conservatively so nothing waives by accident. Consequential actions — filing, sending, executing — are gated behind explicit confirmation.

Who this is for

Role	Primary workflows
Privacy counsel	DPA review, PIA sign-off, reg gap analysis
Privacy program manager	DSAR handling, PIA intake, vendor privacy review
Product counsel	PIA generation for launches
Support / CS	DSAR first-line response (with escalation)

First run: the cold-start interview

The plugin interviews you to learn: are you a controller or processor, which regulations actually apply, what you will and won't agree to in a DPA. Then it reads three seed documents — your privacy policy, your DPA template, one PIA you're happy with — and learns your real positions and house style.

Your configuration is stored at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal/CLAUDE.md and survives plugin updates.

/privacy-legal:cold-start-interview

Commands

Command	Does
/privacy-legal:cold-start-interview	Cold-start interview
/privacy-legal:use-case-triage [activity]	Does this need a PIA? Quick classification + conditions
/privacy-legal:dpa-review [file]	Review a DPA against your playbook (auto-detects direction)
/privacy-legal:dsar-response	Walk through a DSAR and draft the response
/privacy-legal:pia-generation [feature]	Generate a PIA in your house style
/privacy-legal:reg-gap-analysis [regulation]	Diff a new reg against current policy/practice
/privacy-legal:policy-monitor	Weekly sweep for policy drift, or direct query for a proposed new practice
/privacy-legal:matter-workspace	Manage matter workspaces (multi-client private practice only) — new, list, switch, close, none

Skills

Skill	Purpose
cold-start-interview	Writes CLAUDE.md from interview + seed docs
use-case-triage	Does this need a PIA / DPIA / can it proceed? Policy conflict check + handoffs
dpa-review	Bi-directional (processor/controller) DPA term-by-term review
dsar-response	Identity verification → system walk → exemptions → response draft
pia-generation	PIA in house format, with policy consistency check
reg-gap-analysis	New reg vs. current state, remediation plan
policy-monitor	Crawls outputs for practice drift; drafts policy language updates
matter-workspace	Create, list, switch, and close matter workspaces for multi-client practices; isolates each client/matter so context does not leak across them

Quick start

1. Setup

/privacy-legal:cold-start-interview

Have ready: your public privacy policy URL, your standard DPA, one reference PIA.

2. Triage a new feature or processing activity

/privacy-legal:use-case-triage "Marketing wants to use behavioral data for ad personalization"

Output: PROCEED / PIA REQUIRED / DPIA MANDATORY / STOP — with conditions table, lawful basis question, and offer to kick off the PIA in the same conversation.

3. Review a customer DPA

/privacy-legal:dpa-review customer-dpa.pdf

Output: direction auto-detected, term-by-term vs. playbook, proposed redlines, policy consistency check.

4. Handle a DSAR

/privacy-legal:dsar-response

Walks you through: classify → verify → locate → exemptions → draft. Uses your systems list from the config CLAUDE.md.

5. PIA a new feature

/privacy-legal:pia-generation "Location sharing feature"

Intake questions → PIA in your house format → policy diff → conditions list.

How it learns

Your practice profile at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/privacy-legal/CLAUDE.md isn't static — it improves as you use the plugin. Skills tell you when an output used a default you should tune. The policy-monitor skill watches for drift between your policy and your practice and proposes updates. You can re-run setup, edit the file directly, or tell a skill to record a new position.

File structure

privacy-legal/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
├── .mcp.json
├── CLAUDE.md
├── README.md
├── skills/
│   ├── cold-start-interview/
│   ├── use-case-triage/
│   ├── dpa-review/
│   ├── dsar-response/
│   ├── pia-generation/
│   ├── reg-gap-analysis/
│   ├── policy-monitor/
│   └── matter-workspace/
└── hooks/hooks.json

Notes

• DPA review is bi-directional: same skill handles customer DPAs (defend operational flex) and vendor DPAs (protect data). Direction auto-detected, or ask.
• PIA format comes from your seed PIA. If you didn't provide one during setup, it uses a generic structure — re-run setup with a reference PIA to fix.
• Gap analysis (reg-gap-analysis) handles incoming regulations. Policy monitor handles internal practice drift. Different tools for different directions of change.
• Policy monitor requires an outputs folder to be configured (set during setup) for the sweep to work. Direct-query mode works without it.