Legal Discovery Request Planner

Overview

Helps litigation teams plan discovery objectives, request categories, custodians, objections, and production review workflows. 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

• Planning document requests
• Preparing interrogatory themes
• Coordinating eDiscovery scope

Target Users

• Litigators
• Discovery counsel
• Paralegals
• eDiscovery 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. Discovery objective map — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Request category planner — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Custodian/source inventory — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Objection and burden considerations — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Production review checklist — 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

• Discovery plan
• Request category list
• Custodian map
• Review checklist

Example Prompts

• "Plan discovery requests for a product liability matter."
• "Create a custodian and source map for eDiscovery."

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: Informational planning only; discovery requests and objections must comply with applicable rules and court orders.

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.