Civil legal aid and court self-help — eligibility screening, structured intake, jurisdiction-aware drafting, managing-attorney review, and rolling case transfers — built within ABA Formal Op. 512 and LSC program rules.
Claude Code instructions for lawdroidAI/legal-aid-plugin, covering civil legal aid practice profile, who's using this, available integrations, office profile and jurisdiction.
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Track case deadlines — add, cross-case rollup, update, complete, close. Warns at configurable thresholds (default 14/7/3/1 days); overdue items stay flagged until resolved. Funder-tagged so the rollup can filter by funder source for capacity planning. The operational record for a legal aid office's workload. Use when…
First draft of a common civil legal aid document — eviction answers, protective order petitions, demand letters, debt validation letters, benefits appeals, asylum declarations, motions to vacate default judgments, FOIA requests, fair hearing requests, and others. Reads practice-area templates from CLAUDE.md and the…
Funding-source-aware screening — income, assets, residency, citizenship/ immigration status, conflicts, and case-type priority. Produces a screening result the intake specialist or staff attorney reviews and the managing attorney approves. Does NOT decide acceptance. Use at the front of every intake, before…
Funder reporting data extraction. Reads the office's funder reporting cadence and format from CLAUDE.md, queries the case-management system (or instructs on manual extraction), and produces a data package matching each funder's expected format — LSC CSR semi-annual, IOLTA narrative, VAWA quarterly, HUD reports…
Managing attorney's review queue — staff output waits here for approval before going to clients or courts. Only active if "formal review queue" supervision style was chosen at setup; dormant under "configurable flags" or "lighter-touch" modes. Use when the managing attorney wants to see what's waiting for review…
IRAC-scaffolded case analysis memo with research gaps flagged and a funder-restriction analysis section when any [FUNDING RESTRICTION] flag is live on the matter. Rule blocks are RESEARCH NEEDED; Application is STAFF ANALYSIS prompts; Conclusion is blank. The scaffold, not the analysis. Use when a staff attorney needs…
New-staff onboarding — office procedures, tools walkthrough, jurisdiction basics, supervision model, funder restrictions, and practice exercises before real cases. Reads the procedures manual the managing attorney uploaded at setup and teaches it interactively. Use when a new staffer says "onboard me", "I'm new to the…
Research roadmap for a legal issue — statutory starting points, case law areas, agency guidance, secondary sources (NCLC, Shriver Center, practice manuals), search terms for free research tools (CourtListener, Descrybe, Free Law Project) and paid ones if the office has them. Leads and frameworks, NOT authoritative…
Case status summary by audience — client-facing (6th-grade plain language), internal (for the managing attorney), court-ready (formal caption format per local rules), or funder (ad-hoc update for a funder's monitoring request, separate from the full /lsc-report cycle). Same facts, different framing and depth. Use when…