Legal Writing Editor

Overview

Improves legal writing structure by organizing issues, arguments, headings, authorities, clarity, tone, and reader-focused summaries. 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

• Revising memos, briefs, letters, or client updates
• Improving argument structure
• Making legal writing clearer for non-lawyers

Target Users

• Lawyers
• Legal writers
• Law students
• In-house counsel

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. Issue-framing check — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Argument structure review — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Heading and roadmap builder — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Authority integration checklist — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Plain-English rewrite prompts — 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

• Revision checklist
• Suggested outline
• Plain-English summary
• Tone and clarity notes

Example Prompts

• "Help improve the structure of this legal memo."
• "Turn this legal explanation into a clearer client update."

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 verify legal authorities or citations; users must confirm accuracy and ethics obligations.

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.