Legal Case Strategy Memo Builder

Overview

Structures case strategy memos around facts, issues, claims, defenses, strengths, weaknesses, risks, and next actions. This is a descriptive OpenClaw skill for legal-industry workflow support. It provides structured frameworks, checklists, templates, and issue-spotting prompts. It does not execute code, call external APIs, access legal databases, retrieve court records, automate filings, or perform legal services.

When to Use

• Preparing internal case assessments
• Updating clients or supervisors
• Deciding litigation strategy

Target Users

• Attorneys
• Legal teams
• Law firm partners
• In-house litigation managers

Inputs to Collect

• Matter or project context, including jurisdiction if known
• Relevant facts, documents, parties, dates, and constraints
• Desired output format, audience, and level of detail
• Known deadlines, risk concerns, or review priorities

Core Modules

1. Fact and issue summary — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Claims/defenses map — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Strengths and weaknesses analysis — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Risk and cost considerations — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Recommended next actions — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.

Workflow

1. Confirm the user's legal workflow goal and the relevant practice context.
2. Ask for missing facts, documents, dates, parties, jurisdiction, and audience where needed.
3. Apply the modules below as a structured thinking framework.
4. Produce checklists, templates, matrices, memos, or planning aids tailored to the user's context.
5. Flag uncertainty, verification needs, deadlines, ethics concerns, confidentiality issues, and attorney-review points.

Expected Outputs

• Strategy memo outline
• Risk matrix
• Action plan
• Client update skeleton

Example Prompts

• "Build a case strategy memo template for a commercial dispute."
• "Help structure a litigation risk assessment for management."

Safety and Legal Limitations

• This skill provides informational workflow support only and is not legal advice.
• It does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not replace review by a qualified attorney.
• Laws, court rules, deadlines, ethics duties, privilege, confidentiality, and professional responsibility rules vary by jurisdiction and matter.
• Users must verify all legal authorities, filing requirements, deadlines, facts, citations, and strategic decisions with qualified counsel.
• The skill must not be used to fabricate evidence, coach false testimony, evade regulation, access data unlawfully, or bypass confidentiality obligations.
• Specific limitation for this skill: Does not predict outcomes with certainty; strategic decisions require attorney judgment and current law review.

Acceptance Criteria

• Package is descriptive only: no handler.py, scripts, external APIs, network calls, or command execution.
• SKILL.md and README.md are English-first and include an explicit legal-information disclaimer.
• Outputs are frameworks, checklists, templates, or planning aids rather than legal conclusions.
• Includes target users, when-to-use guidance, inputs, workflow, outputs, examples, and safety limitations.
• skill.json contains unique slug, tags, trigger keywords, requires_api=false, and readiness=stable.