Legal Negotiation Position Planner

Overview

Structures legal and commercial negotiation preparation around objectives, leverage, concessions, BATNA, risks, and communication strategy. 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 contract negotiations
• Planning settlement discussions
• Aligning legal and business positions

Target Users

• Deal lawyers
• Litigators
• In-house counsel
• Business negotiators working with legal

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. Objective and fallback map — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Issue-by-issue position table — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Leverage and risk assessment — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Concession strategy planner — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Communication and escalation plan — 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

• Negotiation plan
• Issue/concession matrix
• Risk and leverage notes
• Meeting agenda

Example Prompts

• "Create a negotiation position plan for a vendor agreement."
• "Help prepare settlement negotiation positions for a dispute."

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 provide coercive tactics or guarantee outcomes; negotiation must comply with law and professional ethics.

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.