Legal Due Diligence Document Review with Claude Code: Human Review Queue
A production playbook for legal due diligence document review in legal operations using Claude Code: human review queue, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: M&A legal teams and diligence operators
The problem
M&A legal teams and diligence operators need legal due diligence document review to run repeatedly against data room folders, contracts, corporate docs, schedules, and exception lists. In legal operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Split the legal due diligence document review result into automatable fields and review-only exceptions, then send low-confidence cases to a human queue with evidence artifacts attached.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
Human review slows a subset of runs, but it lets the workflow ship before every edge case is fully automated. For legal due diligence document review, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Review handoff
review_status: needs_review | approved | rejected
review_reason: string
source_evidence: artifact_url[]
agent: Claude Code
workflow: legal-due-diligence
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