/install legal-matter-triage-framework
Legal Matter Triage Framework
Overview
Helps legal teams triage incoming matters by urgency, risk, deadlines, forum, and required expertise. 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
- Sorting a queue of new requests
- Prioritizing legal work
- Escalating high-risk matters
Target Users
- In-house counsel
- Law firm associates
- Legal operations teams
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
- Urgency/risk scoring — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
- Deadline and statute capture — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
- Practice-area routing — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
- Privilege/confidentiality caution points — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
- Next-action plan — 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
- Matter priority matrix
- Escalation recommendations
- Initial next-step checklist
Example Prompts
- "Triage these five incoming legal requests by urgency and risk."
- "Create a triage rubric for an in-house legal helpdesk."
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 decide legal rights or deadlines; users must verify all dates and legal requirements with qualified counsel.
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-matter-triage-framework - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/legal-matter-triage-framework - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
What is Legal Matter Triage Framework?
Provides structured frameworks and checklists to help legal teams triage matters by urgency, risk, deadlines, forum, and expertise without providing legal ad... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 56 downloads so far.
How do I install Legal Matter Triage Framework?
Run "/install legal-matter-triage-framework" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Legal Matter Triage Framework free?
Yes, Legal Matter Triage Framework is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Legal Matter Triage Framework support?
Legal Matter Triage Framework is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Legal Matter Triage Framework?
It is built and maintained by haidong (@harrylabsj); the current version is v1.0.0.