heycounsel-community

Acts as a business coach for a HeyCounsel member's law practice, grounded in their own HeyCounsel data and the community's collective experience. Use this WHENEVER a member asks for help growing or improving their practice — business development, getting clients, pricing or billing, firm operations, tech stack, hiring/leverage, or strategic direction — even with casual phrasings like "how's my practice doing?", "how do I get more clients?", "should I change how I bill?", "where am I leaving money on the table?", or "what should I focus on next quarter?". It conducts deep, multi-tool research across the member's profile, BOTH Pulse benchmark surveys, and the community Slack, then returns a prioritized, evidence-cited set of recommendations with working links. Prefer this skill over answering practice-strategy questions from general knowledge.

Build a complete law firm website in Claude Code — one command, four phases, no coding background required. Use this skill when the user says "build my firm website", "set up my law firm site", "I want to build a website for my firm", or "start a firm website project". It connects GitHub and Vercel, gathers firm information, then builds the entire site in four phases (Foundation, Content, Leads + SEO, Polish + Launch) — deploying live at the end of every phase. Resumable: running it again picks up exactly where the build left off.

Build a single-file HTML dashboard for any area of US employment law, modeled after the AI Employment Laws Dashboard. Use this skill any time the user wants to create, build, generate, or update a dashboard, tracker, comparison page, or visual brief covering an employment-law topic across US jurisdictions. Triggers include phrases like "make a dashboard for [topic]", "build a tracker for [employment topic]", "state-by-state comparison page for [topic]", "visualize the legal landscape for [topic]", "create a dashboard like the AI one but for [topic]". The dashboard always includes a masthead, TL;DR, multi-state trackers, recent articles, a state comparison table with multi-select jurisdiction filter, and one or more deep-dive tabs (the skill explicitly asks the user which states they want a deep-dive page for). ALWAYS run the employment-law-research skill first if research notes don't already exist for the topic. Outputs a single self-contained HTML file the user can open in a browser.

Research a US employment law topic across federal, state, and city jurisdictions and produce structured research notes with proper source attribution. Use this skill any time the user asks about US employment laws, regulations, or pending legislation - from a single jurisdiction question to a 50-state survey. Triggers include phrases like "research [employment law topic]", "what are the laws on [employment topic]", "state-by-state [employment topic]", "help me understand [topic] across the US", or any prompt that asks for a legal landscape overview before another deliverable. Always run this BEFORE the employment-law-dashboard skill if a dashboard is the eventual output. Output is a structured research note that distinguishes primary sources (statutes, regs, agency guidance) from secondary sources (law firm alerts, tracker orgs).

Attorney-facing skill for US and Canadian startup formation work. Use this skill whenever the user is advising founders on entity selection, jurisdiction choice, incorporation mechanics, cap table setup, founder equity and vesting, §83(b) elections, initial securities posture, or cross-border (US-Canada) structuring — even if the user doesn't explicitly say "formation." Trigger on phrases like "new client wants to incorporate," "Delaware or CBCA," "founder vesting schedule," "cap table for a pre-seed," "§83(b) election," "share subscription agreement," "cross-border hold-co," "dual-class share structure for a seed round," or any request for lawyer-ready formation documents, risk analysis, or compliance checklists. Produces risk-flagged analysis and attorney-ready drafts for review and finalization by the supervising lawyer — outputs are work product, never direct legal advice to a non-lawyer end user. Defaults to Delaware C-Corp (US) and federal CBCA (Canada) for VC-track deep tech clients; branches to altern

Ricerca giurisprudenziale rapida per ottenere un quadro di orientamento iniziale su un tema giuridico. Si attiva con "giurisprudenza-lampo [tema]", "cerca giurisprudenza su [tema]", "sentenze su [tema]", "pronunce su [tema]", "orientamento giurisprudenziale su [tema]", o qualsiasi variante che chieda di cercare sentenze, pronunce, massime, orientamenti giurisprudenziali o precedenti su un argomento giuridico. Usa questa skill anche quando l'utente dice "cosa dice la giurisprudenza su", "ci sono sentenze su", "precedenti su", "come si è espressa la Cassazione/il TAR/il Consiglio di Stato su".

Helps a lawyer build and use a personalized Legal Guidance Vault — a local folder of structured, privilege-marked entries capturing legal guidance they've given, searchable later by topic, person, or product. Use this skill when the user says "set up my vault," "archive this meeting/email/thread/doc," "log the guidance I gave on [topic]," "save my notes from [meeting]," "what did I say about [topic]," "find the time I advised [person] on [topic]," or "search my vault for [topic]." Runs a setup interview to learn the user's tool stack (meeting notes, calendar, email, docs, messaging, vault location), then generates a customized vault prompt they can reuse in any future Claude session to start archiving and retrieving guidance.

Pre-flight privilege and work-product check for legal AI prompts. Use when the user is about to send legal content to a third-party AI surface (ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Copilot, Gemini, etc.) and wants to know whether the prompt risks blowing attorney-client privilege or work-product protection. Returns a SAFE/CAUTION/STOP band with cited factors, a discovery-impact line, and a redacted-safe rewrite.

Guides the full lifecycle of drafting any commercial contract — from context elicitation and model document synthesis through outline approval and final Word document delivery. Use for all contract drafting work, whether the attorney provides model agreements to synthesize, a single precedent to generalize, or no precedent at all. This skill replaces the contract-drafting skill and should be the default for any new agreement. For reviewing or redlining an existing counterparty agreement, use the nda-review or contract-playbook-capture skills instead.

Apply Darwin Legal formatting conventions when drafting or generating any contract, agreement, amendment, or legal document as a Word (.docx) file. Use this skill whenever Ryan asks to draft, generate, or format any agreement — including RSPAs, consulting agreements, amendments, board consents, side letters, or any other legal document — even if the request doesn't explicitly mention formatting. Also use when asked to reformat or clean up an existing contract. Always read this skill before producing any .docx legal document.

Manages client matter journals — persistent case files that give Claude full context on every client and matter. Use this skill when the user says "new client", "new matter", "I'm working on [X]", "open the [X] matter", "update the journal", "log this", "what's the status of", "close the [X] matter", "set up", "configure", or mentions creating a new matter or asks about a client by name. Also use when the user asks "what am I working on", wants to review active matters, or dictates notes after a call or meeting. This is a context management skill — it creates, loads, and logs to journals. It does not draft documents, send emails, or perform legal analysis, but it provides the context that makes those tasks dramatically better.

Translates contract redlines into client-ready or opposing-counsel emails. Accepts three input modes: (1) a .docx with tracked changes, (2) a redlined PDF with strikethrough/underline formatting, or (3) a verbal description of changes. Produces a copy-paste-ready email, tone-matched to the recipient: plain-English for own clients, professional legal cover for opposing counsel. Use when the attorney says "write the redline email", "summarize these changes for the client", "draft a cover email for the redline", "explain these edits to opposing counsel", or "turn this redline into an email". Do NOT use for drafting contracts or generating redlines — use the relevant drafter skill. Do NOT use for diffing two clean (non-redlined) document versions.

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Texas title examination for residential and commercial real estate. Analyzes commitments, recorded instruments, surveys, HOA docs, and searches. Outputs DRAFT title opinion letters, requirements checklists, and exception cures for attorney review. TRIGGERS: Title commitment uploads, title report analysis, Schedule B exceptions, title opinion requests, Texas homestead/community property/mineral questions, clearing title for closing, title insurance documents. Use this skill whenever someone uploads a title commitment PDF, asks about Schedule B exceptions, wants a title opinion drafted, asks about Texas homestead or community property rules, needs help clearing title for a closing, or asks questions like "what does exception #3 mean?" or "I just got a commitment from [title company], can you look at it?" or "review this title package." Also trigger on any mention of Texas title insurance forms (T-1, T-7, T-19, T-47), lender endorsements, or clearing title requirements. COVERS: Residential, commercial, minera