/ramp

1. Check ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md is set up. If placeholders: "Ask [professor] to run /legal-clinic:cold-start-interview first."
2. Use the walkthrough below.
3. Walk through: clinic context (from handbook) → commands → practice exercises (fake intake, practice draft, research roadmap) → verification habits.
4. --card: generate the one-page reference card.

/legal-clinic:ramp

/legal-clinic:ramp --card

Ramp: Semester Onboarding

Purpose

Every semester, the clinic loses its entire workforce and rebuilds from scratch. New students need to learn procedures, case management, filing conventions, and practice-area basics before they're useful. Traditionally that takes weeks of reading PDFs and asking the professor the same questions every semester.

This skill is the guided walkthrough. It reads what the professor uploaded during cold-start — the handbook, the filing guides, the local rules — and teaches it interactively, with practice exercises so students try the tools in a low-stakes setting before a real client is on the line.

Audience: students. Professors don't run this (they run /cold-start-interview).

Load context

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → clinic profile, practice areas, jurisdiction, handbook path, supervision style, practice-area templates.

If that file is missing or still has placeholders: "The clinic hasn't been set up yet. Ask [supervising professor] to run /cold-start-interview first."

The walkthrough

Opening

Welcome to [clinic name]. I'm going to walk you through how this clinic works and how to use these tools — about twenty minutes, and you can pause anytime. By the end you'll have run a practice intake, drafted a practice document, and you'll know what to do when you get your first real case.

One thing up front: everything I generate is a starting point, not a final answer. You do the analysis. [Professor] reviews your work [per supervision style]. I handle the formatting and the first draft so you spend your time on the lawyering, not on writing "Dear Judge" for the twentieth time.

Part 1: This clinic (5 min)

Read from ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md and the ingested handbook. Cover, interactively:

• Practice areas — what the clinic handles, what it doesn't (and where to refer if someone walks in with an out-of-scope issue)
• Clients — who they are, what they're facing, languages
• Jurisdiction — which courts, which judges, what the local quirks are
• Case management — how cases are tracked, where files live, what a well-documented case looks like
• Supervision — how review works in this clinic (per the supervision style in CLAUDE.md). Be specific: "Before anything goes to a client or a court, [it goes in the review queue / you check with Professor X / etc.]"

Don't lecture — check understanding. "So if a client comes in with an eviction notice but also mentions they're undocumented, what do you do?" (Answer: both issues get noted in intake; the immigration question may need a referral or a flag to the professor, depending on the clinic's scope.)

Part 2: The commands (5 min)

Walk through each command the student will actually use:

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