Legal Practice skills for AI agents
12 practitioner-grade legal practice skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.
All 12 skills
- Client Counseling
Covers the fundamentals of attorney-client counseling, including intake interviews, expectation management, and decision-making guidance. Activate this skill when advising clients on their legal options, communicating case developments, or navigating the emotional dynamics of legal representation.
149 lines - Contract Drafting
Provides guidance on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating enforceable contracts across commercial and corporate transactions. Use this skill when creating agreements from scratch, reviewing boilerplate clauses, structuring deal terms, or addressing risk allocation through indemnification and limitation of liability provisions.
141 lines - Criminal Defense
Covers criminal defense practice from investigation through trial, sentencing, and appeal, grounded in constitutional protections. Activate this skill when handling cases involving suppression motions, plea negotiations, jury trial preparation, sentencing mitigation, or the collateral consequences of criminal convictions.
157 lines - Deposition Technique
Provides techniques for taking and defending depositions in civil litigation, including witness preparation, questioning strategies, and document handling. Use this skill when planning deposition outlines, examining or cross-examining witnesses under oath, handling objections, or using deposition testimony for summary judgment or trial impeachment.
146 lines - Employment Law
Covers employment law compliance and dispute resolution from both employer and employee perspectives, including discrimination, wage and hour, and workplace investigations. Activate this skill when drafting employment policies, advising on termination decisions, conducting workplace investigations, or handling EEOC charges and employment litigation.
157 lines - Family Law
Covers family law matters including divorce, child custody, property division, and support obligations, with emphasis on child-centered outcomes. Use this skill when navigating custody disputes, dividing marital assets, calculating support, preparing for family court mediation, or addressing domestic violence protective orders.
158 lines - Immigration Law
Provides guidance on U.S. immigration law including family-based and employment-based petitions, asylum claims, visa processing, and employer compliance. Activate this skill when assessing immigration eligibility, preparing USCIS filings, responding to RFEs, tracking visa bulletin priority dates, or advising employers on I-9 and H-1B obligations.
158 lines - Intellectual Property
Covers intellectual property strategy across patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, including portfolio management, licensing, and enforcement. Use this skill when conducting IP audits, filing patent or trademark applications, drafting licensing agreements, evaluating freedom-to-operate, or protecting trade secrets during employee transitions.
151 lines - Legal Research
Covers systematic legal research methodology using both digital platforms and traditional sources, including case law analysis, statutory interpretation, and citator verification. Activate this skill when framing research questions, building case law strategies on Westlaw or LexisNexis, synthesizing authorities into memoranda, or verifying that cited authorities remain good law.
144 lines - Legal Writing
Provides principles and techniques for clear, persuasive legal writing across briefs, motions, memoranda, and client correspondence. Use this skill when drafting court filings, structuring legal arguments using IRAC, writing persuasive statements of fact, editing for concision, or ensuring compliance with court formatting and citation rules.
161 lines - Litigation Strategy
Covers end-to-end civil litigation strategy from case assessment through trial and post-trial motions, including discovery planning, motion practice, and settlement positioning. Activate this skill when developing case theories, planning discovery strategy, managing litigation budgets, preparing for trial, or evaluating settlement opportunities in complex disputes.
139 lines - Real Estate Law
Covers real estate law across commercial and residential transactions, title examination, zoning and land use, and landlord-tenant matters. Use this skill when conducting title due diligence, drafting purchase agreements or lease documents, navigating zoning approvals, managing closings, or resolving boundary and title disputes.
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