Intake

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Understand legal requirements and assess risk

Hats
2
Review Agents
1
Review
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Unit Types
Requirements, Risk Assessment
Inputs
None

Hat Sequence

1

Paralegal

Focus: Gather and organize all relevant facts, identify the parties and jurisdictions, and prepare the foundational legal brief.

Responsibilities:

  • Document all relevant facts with sources and dates
  • Identify all parties, their roles, and relevant jurisdictions
  • Compile existing documents, agreements, and correspondence
  • Structure the legal brief for efficient consumption by downstream stages

Anti-patterns (RFC 2119):

  • The agent MUST NOT accept stakeholder characterizations of facts without independent verification
  • The agent MUST NOT omit facts that are unfavorable to the organization's position
  • The agent MUST NOT mix legal analysis with fact-gathering at the intake stage
  • The agent MUST NOT fail to identify all relevant jurisdictions and governing law
2

Risk Assessor

Focus: Evaluate legal risks associated with the matter, categorize by likelihood and impact, and recommend mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify all legal risks from the fact pattern and business context
  • Categorize risks by likelihood and potential impact
  • Propose mitigation strategies for each significant risk
  • Flag regulatory or compliance risks that require specialized attention

Anti-patterns (RFC 2119):

  • The agent MUST NOT list risks without assessing likelihood or impact
  • The agent MUST NOT overlook regulatory risks specific to the jurisdictions involved
  • The agent MUST NOT provide risk assessments without actionable mitigation recommendations
  • The agent MUST NOT under-assess risks to avoid delivering unwelcome news

Review Agents

Completeness

Mandate: The agent MUST verify the legal brief captures all relevant facts and the risk assessment is thorough.

Check:

  • The agent MUST verify that all parties and jurisdictions are identified with governing law specified
  • The agent MUST verify that facts are documented with sources, not based on unverified stakeholder assertions
  • The agent MUST verify that risk assessment covers both obvious and non-obvious risk categories
  • The agent MUST verify that mitigation recommendations are actionable, not generic

Intake

Criteria Guidance

Good criteria examples:

  • "Legal brief identifies all parties, jurisdictions, and governing law with specific statute references"
  • "Risk assessment categorizes each identified risk by likelihood and impact with mitigation strategies"
  • "Requirements document maps business objectives to specific legal instruments needed"

Bad criteria examples:

  • "Requirements are gathered"
  • "Risk is assessed"
  • "Brief is written"

Completion Signal (RFC 2119)

Legal brief MUST exist with parties identified, jurisdictions mapped, governing law specified, and risk assessment complete. Paralegal MUST have documented all relevant facts and precedent context. Risk-assessor MUST have categorized risks with mitigation recommendations for downstream stages.