/install legal-deposition-prep-coach
Legal Deposition Prep Coach
Overview
Builds deposition preparation outlines for witnesses, attorneys, themes, exhibits, and question sequences. 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 a witness for deposition
- Drafting deposition outlines
- Organizing exhibits and themes
Target Users
- Litigators
- Witness preparation teams
- Paralegals
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
- Witness background checklist — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
- Theme and objective map — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
- Question sequence builder — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
- Exhibit reference list — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
- Preparation do/don’t reminders — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
Workflow
- Confirm the user's legal workflow goal and the relevant practice context.
- Ask for missing facts, documents, dates, parties, jurisdiction, and audience where needed.
- Apply the modules below as a structured thinking framework.
- Produce checklists, templates, matrices, memos, or planning aids tailored to the user's context.
- Flag uncertainty, verification needs, deadlines, ethics concerns, confidentiality issues, and attorney-review points.
Expected Outputs
- Deposition outline
- Witness prep checklist
- Exhibit/topic map
- Follow-up question bank
Example Prompts
- "Create a deposition prep outline for a corporate witness."
- "Help organize topics for deposing a former employee."
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 coach false testimony or obstruction; all preparation must preserve truthfulness and comply with ethics rules.
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.
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install legal-deposition-prep-coach - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/legal-deposition-prep-coach - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
What is Legal Deposition Prep Coach?
Provides structured deposition preparation frameworks, checklists, and templates for witnesses, attorneys, exhibits, and question sequencing in legal workflows. It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 54 downloads so far.
How do I install Legal Deposition Prep Coach?
Run "/install legal-deposition-prep-coach" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Legal Deposition Prep Coach free?
Yes, Legal Deposition Prep Coach is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Legal Deposition Prep Coach support?
Legal Deposition Prep Coach is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Legal Deposition Prep Coach?
It is built and maintained by haidong (@harrylabsj); the current version is v1.0.0.