# General-Legal/legal-templates

Public collection of high-quality templates created by General Legal attorneys with CC0 license

Repository: https://github.com/General-Legal/legal-templates
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/legal-templates
Language: Python
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:32:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 59/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 9
- inputs: {"age_days": 130, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1846, forks 182 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:42.896576+00:00)

## What it is
A public collection of attorney-drafted legal templates for startups and technology companies, released under CC0 1.0. Templates cover agreements, privacy policies, NDAs, and terms of use, provided in LLM-optimized markdown and original .docx formats.

## Use cases
- find a free NDA template for my startup
- get a GDPR-compliant privacy policy template
- download an advisor agreement with equity terms
- grab a HIPAA business associate agreement template
- get website terms of use boilerplate
- find a data processing addendum for SaaS
- use legal contract templates with an LLM

## When to choose
- you need attorney-drafted starting points for common startup contracts
- you want templates free of licensing restrictions (CC0)
- you want LLM-friendly markdown versions of legal documents
- you need US and GDPR-oriented privacy policy and DPA templates

## When to avoid
- you need legally binding advice tailored to your specific situation
- you require templates for non-tech or non-startup legal matters
- you need jurisdiction-specific review or attorney sign-off

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, pdf
- domain: legal, documentation, hr
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: legal-templates, cc0, startup-legal, contracts, privacy-policy, nda, llm-optimized, docx, markdown

## Member repositories
- General-Legal/legal-templates (main) score 59

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:42.896576+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:17:51.897218+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/General-Legal/legal-templates (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:42.896576+00:00, sha b12ab97615ff)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.