Legal Law Firm Ops Dashboard

Overview

Designs descriptive dashboards for law firm matter status, workload, deadlines, billing hygiene, client communication, and risk flags. 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

• Improving matter visibility
• Creating weekly practice reports
• Standardizing operational review meetings

Target Users

• Law firm managers
• Practice group leaders
• Legal operations professionals
• Managing partners

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. Matter status fields — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Workload and deadline indicators — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Billing and WIP hygiene prompts — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Client communication cadence tracker — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Risk escalation dashboard — 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

• Dashboard field list
• Weekly report template
• Risk flag definitions
• Meeting agenda

Example Prompts

• "Design a weekly litigation practice dashboard."
• "Create a law firm matter status dashboard template."

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: Operational guidance only; does not access billing systems or client data automatically.

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.