legal-aid

Help a managing attorney author a per-practice-area guide that configures how staff-facing skills behave — intake questions specific to this practice area, escalation posture (handle / escalate / refer), review gates, funder-restriction overrides, cross-area watch list, local rules, and practice-area draft templates. Use when a managing attorney wants to build or revise a per-practice-area guide, tune how the skills behave for a specific practice area, or set the office's escalation philosophy as plugin configuration.

Per-case handoff memo for rolling staff transitions — departure, role change, leave coverage, intake-to-staff routing. Status snapshot, what's pending, what's next, deadlines, conflict re-check for the incoming attorney, open questions for the supervisor. Use when a case is moving between staff for any reason, when a staffer is going on leave, or when intake hands a matter to a staff attorney for the first time.

Log a client or prospective-client communication — call, email, text, letter, in-person, voicemail. Append-only per-case record with dated entries, direction, medium, summary, action items. Rule 1.18-aware for prospective clients (even declined matters); VAWA-aware for confidentiality with DV survivors. Works alongside /client-letter and /status client. Use when logging a call or client email, reviewing a communication log, or asking "what did we tell [client] last time".

Structured intake on a matter that has cleared eligibility screening. Pulls upstream conversation context if LIA-MCP or VIA-MCP is connected, routes to practice-area template, spots cross-area issues, runs full conflict check, propagates funder-source matrix and funding-restriction flags from screening, classifies urgency, and produces a formatted case summary the staff attorney analyzes and the managing attorney reviews. Does NOT decide case acceptance. Use after /eligibility-screening, when starting a new client intake, or writing up a new client's situation.

Routine client correspondence from templates — appointment confirmations, document requests, brief "we filed it" updates, engagement letters, eligibility-decline letters (with referral), case-closing letters. Plain language (6th-grade target), language-served-aware (per CLAUDE.md), required elements, supervision routing. NOT substantive advice; use /status client for that, or a conversation. Use when a staffer needs to send routine correspondence to a prospective client, current client, or declined-matter caller.

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Free Law Project's legal research platform — U.S. court opinions, PACER dockets, judge profiles, citation verification.

Jurisdiction-aware guidance for self-represented litigants — case intake, deadline calculations, procedural next steps.

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