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The L Suite today launched two Claude connectors as an official partner of Anthropic’s Claude for the legal industry. The new initiative connects Claude to the tools lawyers use across drafting, research, contract management, e-discovery, and data rooms. The connectors mark the first time The L Suite’s peer intelligence has been made available outside its private member platform, The Braintrust.

TopCounsel by The L Suite, a connector available to all in-house counsel, helps lawyers find the right outside counsel for a specific matter, recommending individual lawyers, not just firms. Rankings are based on The L Suite’s vast and unbiased dataset and proprietary ranking algorithm, including:

• Aggregated member sentiment from thousands of peer-to-peer in-house recommendations and outside counsel survey results
• Substantive expertise demonstrated by outside counsel speakers, shared with The L Suite community from over 2,000+ individual speaking engagements
• Thousands of documents and templates, shared with the L Suite community by outside counsel
• Private research and outside counsel interviews by The L Suite’s research staff

The bottom line: TopCounsel recommendations are based on real, demonstrated expertise in the specific matter as judged by the premiere in-house counsel community.

Lloyd by The L Suite, a private connector for L Suite members, brings the full L Suite Braintrust into Claude: thousands of peer discussion threads, 3,000+ shared documents, 5,000+ hours of event content, and 10,000+ outside counsel recommendations contributed by GCs and legal ops leaders at companies including Intuit, Reddit, Klaviyo, Instacart, Notion, Canva, Lyft, and HubSpot. Members use Lloyd to pressure-test decisions before advising CEOs and boards, benchmark legal team structure and spend, find peer-vetted vendors, and get up to speed on unfamiliar topics. Lloyd requires an eligible L Suite team membership and a Claude Team or Enterprise account.

Find TopCounsel in the Claude connector directory or at Topcounsel.ai and Lloyd by the L Suite on The L Suite website.

The L Suite today announced the launch of Lloyd, a community-powered AI tool built on the collective intelligence of its highly-experienced network. Lloyd is purpose-built for General Counsels and their legal teams and is available exclusively to members of The L Suite.

The announcement coincides with TechGC Nexus, the L Suite’s marquee annual gathering of General Counsels in the tech ecosystem. 

Lloyd combines foundational AI capabilities with the trusted judgment of thousands of accomplished in-house legal executives, delivering contextually aware, highly-calibrated guidance grounded in more than a decade of peer discussions, benchmarking data, shared resources, outside counsel insights, and community knowledge.

The legal profession has gained tremendous value from AI tools that automate drafting, research, and document review. Lloyd complements these tools by providing something data alone cannot: the hard-won experience and judgment of trusted peers. In-house legal teams can better understand how their most trusted peers approach critical decisions such as advising on a sensitive acquisition, evaluating outside counsel, prioritizing contract clauses in negotiations, structuring their legal departments, or pressure-testing policy positions. These decisions require more than an understanding of statutes and case law. They are best answered by asking someone who has already been there before and learned what works and what doesn’t.

Lloyd makes that possible at scale. It draws on The L Suite’s private member platform— the Braintrust—used by 2,500+ General Counsels and their legal teams. Built over eleven years, the Braintrust comprises 3,000+ templates, playbooks, checklists, and artifacts, 1,200+ hours of event video content, 2,000+ annual discussion threads, 10,000+ instances of outside counsel and vendor feedback, and much more—to surface how experienced legal leaders actually handle similar situations. Every response is cited and traceable to the specific peer discussion, document, or video it draws from, a feature that matters considerably to legal professionals who need accurate information from reputable sources.

Lloyd also draws on the internal knowledge set of the leading LLMs and trusted external sources on the web, as well as curated expertise from Am Law 100 and other leading law firms, professional service providers, and legal tech vendors that have partnered with The L Suite across 550+ annual events. Lloyd makes all this knowledge available, along with the practical insights of thousands of in-house legal leaders, in a single query.   

Lloyd is available to members of The L Suite immediately. Click here for more details.