# General / Cross-Practice — jurisdiction-neutral

Cross-practice legal process and methodology: summarization, extraction, formatting, research workflow, and document handling not tied to one substantive area.

Jurisdiction: `general` · Practice: `general` · Skill language: en

## Skills (49)

| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| [`Legal Article Summary`](skills/article-summary/) | Generates structured 500-800 word summaries of legal articles distilling thesis, methodology, arguments, authorities, conclusions, and… |
| [`Authority Verification with case.dev`](skills/authority-verification/) | Verifies legal citations and retrieves source material using the case.dev Legal Research API and CLI. |
| [`Bates Citation and Verification`](skills/bates-citation-verification/) | Citation format and verification protocol for legal documents that draw on Bates-stamped source records. |
| [`Billing Cycle Manager`](skills/billing-cycle-manager-scott-margetts/) | Operational billing execution for legal matters. |
| [`Budget and Fee Manager`](skills/budget-and-fee-manager-scott-margetts/) | Matter budgeting and ongoing WIP/variance monitoring. |
| [`Bulk Document Extraction & Review`](skills/bulk-document-extraction-review/) | Extracts structured data from large sets of legal documents into tabular format for review, analysis, and reporting. |
| [`Canned Responses Skill`](skills/canned-responses-anthropic/) | Generate templated responses for common legal inquiries and identify when situations require individualized attention. |
| [`Case Brief Generation`](skills/case-briefs/) | Generates structured case briefs from judicial opinions. |
| [`Client Advisory Summary`](skills/client-advisory/) | Drafts client advisory memoranda translating legal developments into actionable guidance with impact analysis, Bluebook citations, and… |
| [`Client-Friendly Tone`](skills/client-friendly-tone/) | Rewrites legal communications in plain-language, client-friendly tone. |
| [`Collaboration Platform Advisor`](skills/collaboration-platform-advisor-scott-margetts/) | Collaboration platform configuration methodology for legal matter sites. |
| [`Communication Summarization`](skills/communication-summarization/) | Generates structured memorandum-style summaries of legal communications (email threads, meeting notes, correspondence, negotiation records). |
| [`Legal Conference Summary`](skills/conference-summary/) | Produces structured legal conference summaries capturing session substance, speaker credentials, cited authorities, and practical takeaways. |
| [`Continuous Improvement Engine`](skills/continuous-improvement-engine-scott-margetts/) | Capture, structure, and recycle lessons from active and closed legal matters. |
| [`Document Approval Tracker`](skills/document-approval-tracker-scott-margetts/) | Approval cascade definition and tracking for multi-stakeholder document workflows. |
| [`DOCX Skill`](skills/docx-processing-openai/) | Toolkit for comprehensive document reading, editing, and creation with visual quality control. |
| [`Legal Document Translation Skill`](skills/en-us-legal-translation-wouter-van-den-berg/) | Translate legal documents from any language into English while preserving .docx formatting and translating track changes and… |
| [`Engagement Letter Review`](skills/engagement-letter-review/) | Reviews attorney engagement letters for completeness, fee clarity, scope definition, and potential client-side risks. |
| [`Executive Summaries`](skills/executive-summaries/) | Generates decision-ready executive summaries from complex legal documents for senior lawyers, executives, and clients. |
| [`Investigation Report Summary`](skills/investigation-report-summary/) | Generates executive-level summaries of investigative reports covering workplace incidents, misconduct, fraud, or personal injury. |
| [`Judicial First Impression: Cold-Read Assessment`](skills/judicial-first-impression-larissa-meredith-flister/) | Assesses a legal argument, submission, or piece of structured reasoning from the perspective of a judge reading it cold under time pressure. |
| [`Legal Article Summary`](skills/legal-article-summary/) | Produces structured summaries of legal scholarship capturing thesis, methodology, key authorities, arguments, and significance. |
| [`Legal Design Assessment`](skills/legal-design-assessment-mirza-chiragov/) | Audits a legal document against legal design principles. |
| [`In-House Counsel Document Format — Multi-Track House Style`](skills/legal-document-drafting-formatting-alessandro-dardano/) | Produces properly-formatted legal documents in Word (.docx). |
| [`Legal Memorandum`](skills/legal-memorandum/) | Drafts objective internal legal memoranda using the CREAC method with structured header, questions presented, brief answers, statement of… |
| [`Legal Risk Assessment Skill`](skills/legal-risk-assessment-anthropic/) | Assess and classify legal risks using a severity-by-likelihood framework with escalation criteria. |
| [`Legal Document Translation Skill`](skills/legal-translation-uk-english-wouter-van-den-berg/) | Translate legal documents from any language into English while preserving .docx formatting and translating track changes and… |
| [`Local Counsel Manager`](skills/local-counsel-manager-scott-margetts/) | End-to-end external local counsel lifecycle management for multi-jurisdiction legal matters. |
| [`Matter Intake and Scoping`](skills/matter-intake-scoping-scott-margetts/) | Matter scoping across the full pre-execution arc — organise client data into a structured brief, capture the agreed baseline, or… |
| [`Matter Plan Builder`](skills/matter-plan-builder-scott-margetts/) | Convert agreed scope into a structured matter plan — phases, workstreams, milestones, dependencies, owner assignments, and matter setup… |
| [`Meeting Briefing Skill`](skills/meeting-briefing-anthropic/) | Prepare structured briefings for meetings with legal relevance and track resulting action items. |
| [`Outside Counsel Billing & Performance Reviewer`](skills/outside-counsel-billing-and-performance-reviewer-carl-ditzler/) | Reviews outside counsel invoices and related billing data for an in-house legal department, including LEDES or e-billing exports, OCGs,… |
| [`PDF Skill`](skills/pdf-processing-openai/) | Toolkit for comprehensive PDF reading, reviwing, and creation with visual quality control. |
| [`Policy Manual Summary`](skills/policy-manual/) | Generates structured policy manual summaries that distill complex legal policies and compliance guidelines into employee-facing reference… |
| [`Policy Summary`](skills/policy-summary/) | Summarizes policy documents, regulations, and legislative materials into structured briefings with compliance insights. |
| [`Legal Project Management Summary`](skills/project-summary/) | Generates structured legal project management summaries with RAG status indicators, budget variance analysis, and prioritized action items. |
| [`Resource Planner`](skills/resource-planner-scott-margetts/) | Team structure, gearing analysis, continuity planning, and competing demand management for legal matters. |
| [`Risk Analysis Summary`](skills/risk-analysis/) | Generates structured risk analysis summaries for legal matters, identifying and evaluating risks by severity and likelihood with quantified… |
| [`Risk and Issues Manager`](skills/risk-and-issues-manager-scott-margetts/) | RAID log methodology with decision extraction from emails and meeting notes. |
| [`Legal Risk Assessment`](skills/risk-assessment/) | Generates structured legal risk assessment reports with categorized risks, 5x5 scoring matrices, and mitigation strategies. |
| [`Scope Change Controller`](skills/scope-change-controller-scott-margetts/) | Scope management for legal matters — baseline capture, in-flight change control, OOS documentation, and scope retrospective. |
| [`Security Best Practices`](skills/security-review-openai/) | Perform language and framework specific security best-practice reviews and suggest improvements. |
| [`Skill Creator`](skills/skill-creator-openai/) | Guide for creating effective skills. |
| [`Stakeholder Comms Planner`](skills/stakeholder-comms-planner-scott-margetts/) | Stakeholder mapping, communication plan design, reporting hierarchy, and mid-matter comms updates. |
| [`Status Report Drafter`](skills/status-report-drafter-scott-margetts/) | Draft matter status reports from emails, call notes, and updates. |
| [`Summarize Legal Documents`](skills/summarize-files/) | Generates structured summaries of legal documents (contracts, pleadings, correspondence, transactional materials). |
| [`Timeline Generator`](skills/timeline-generator-scott-margetts/) | Build dependency network and critical path from a matter plan. |
| [`Diplomatic Professional Tone`](skills/tone-diplomatic/) | Applies measured, diplomatic tone to legal writing. |
| [`Spreadsheet Skill (Create, Edit, Analyze, Visualize)`](skills/xlsx-processing-openai/) | Toolkit for comprehensive Spreadsheet reading, creation, editing, and analysis with visual quality control. |

## Cold-start context

See [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md) — scope, forums, sources of law, citation discipline, and when this plugin does NOT apply.

## Provenance & license

Skills imported from open sources ([CaseMark/skills](https://github.com/CaseMark/skills), Apache-2.0). See each `SKILL.md` `author`/`author_url` for provenance. Plugin license: Apache-2.0.

## Disclaimer

These skills produce informational drafts and analyses, not legal advice. Verify against current law before use.
