| name | status |
| title | $legal-clinic:status |
| description | Case status summary by audience — client-facing (plain language), internal (for the professor), or court-ready (formal caption format per local rules). Same facts, different framing and depth. Use when a student needs to update the client, brief the professor, or prepare a court status report. |
| author | alexchlou |
| author_url | https://github.com/alexchlou/codex-for-legal/tree/main/plugins/legal-clinic/skills/status |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| execution_mode | open |
| jurisdiction | general |
| practice | litigation |
| language | en |
Codex v1 local-input note: This migrated skill supports local files and pasted text by default. References to Drive, CLM IDs, Slack, Westlaw, iManage, Ironclad, eDiscovery, dockets, or other remote systems require a separately configured Codex connector/MCP server. When a connector is unavailable, ask for a local export, local file path, or pasted excerpts. If config/local/codex-for-legal/<practice>/CLAUDE.md is missing, ask the user to run the relevant cold-start-interview or customize skill and copy from config/templates/codex-for-legal/<practice>/CLAUDE.md.
$legal-clinic:status
- Load
config/local/codex-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → supervision style, plain-language standards, jurisdiction.
- Use the workflow below. Read case notes.
- Generate for the specified audience:
client — plain language, what happened/next/you do/reach usinternal — procedural posture, done since last check-in, upcoming, needs professor input, student's assessmentcourt — formal status report in caption format per local rules
- Supervision routing per audience (client-facing and court-ready usually flag).
$legal-clinic:status client
$legal-clinic:status internal
$legal-clinic:status court
Status: Audience-Aware Case Summaries
Purpose
Clinics generate enormous numbers of status updates — to clients, to professors, to co-counsel, to courts. Same case, same facts, completely different documents. This skill takes the case notes and produces the right summary for the right reader.
Load context
config/local/codex-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → supervision style, plain-language standards (for client-facing), jurisdiction.
Case notes for facts.
Audience modes
Client-facing
Reader: The client. Probably stressed. Possibly unfamiliar with legal process. Reading level per config/local/codex-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md plain-language standards (default 6th grade).
Include:
- What's happened since they last heard from the clinic
- What's happening next and when
- What (if anything) they need to do
- How to reach the clinic
Don't include:
