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Legal Research Roadmap Generator

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Generates structured research roadmaps and initial leads for legal issues to help students identify relevant statutes, case law areas, and search terms.

The research-start skill accelerates the initial phase of legal research by providing a comprehensive roadmap of potential statutory starting points, case law areas, and Westlaw or CourtListener search terms. Designed specifically for legal clinics and law students, it prioritizes a 'leads over authorities' framework, requiring users to verify all citations while surfacing internal clinic seed documents to ensure research aligns with existing office precedent. It identifies gaps in uploaded research and provides a structured framework to transition from a general legal query to focused, high-quality primary source investigation.

Key Features

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02Synthesizes existing research to identify missing frameworks or overlooked sources.
03Surfaces internal clinic seed documents and precedent files relevant to the legal issue.
04Generates unverified statutory starting points and case law areas for specific jurisdictions.
05Provides optimized search terms for Westlaw, CourtListener, and other legal databases.
06Includes mandatory pedagogical safeguards and uncertainty flags to prevent AI hallucinations.

Use Cases

01A law student starting research on a specific defense who needs a roadmap of where to look first.
02A clinical supervisor providing a structured research path for a student on a new case.
03Identifying gaps in a research memo that has already been partially drafted by a student.