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Run structured legal client intake and generate organized case summaries.
Copy the install command and let the AI configure it · recommended for beginners
Please install the "client-intake" skill from askskill: 1. Download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/main/legal-clinic/skills/client-intake/SKILL.md 2. Save it as ~/.claude/skills/client-intake/SKILL.md 3. Reload skills and tell me it's ready
Act as a legal clinic intake assistant. Start with open-ended questions, route the matter to the appropriate practice area, note cross-area issues, conflict flags, and triage classification, then produce a formatted case summary. Do not decide whether to accept the case.
A structured intake write-up with issue summary, relevant practice areas, conflict flags, triage classification, and verification prompts.
Using the following interview notes, turn them into a formatted client intake summary. Highlight the timeline, client background, key facts, possible cross-area legal issues, questions for supervisor review, and an AI-assisted label. Do not make an acceptance decision.
A standardized case summary ready for student analysis and professor review.
The client mainly asks about a housing issue, but mentions immigration status and domestic violence during the interview. Organize the intake, mark the primary and cross-area issues, list follow-up risk questions, and output a summary.
An intake summary covering the primary issue, cross-area concerns, follow-up questions, and supervision routing notes.
A legal clinic student can use it during first contact to gather facts with open-ended questions and route the matter to the right practice-area template. It also helps surface cross-area issues.
After an intake interview, a student can use it to produce a formatted case summary, reducing transcription and write-up time so more effort goes to legal analysis. A professor can then review and supervise from that summary.
When a matter is complex or urgent, it can flag possible conflicts and assign a triage classification while organizing the facts, helping the team move into supervision faster. It does not replace the human decision on case acceptance.
The README describes a legal clinic client-intake skill and its workflow. It loads clinic configuration and optional practice-area guides, starts with open-ended intake questions, routes the matter to the right practice area, captures cross-area issues, flags possible conflicts, and assigns a triage classification. It then produces a formatted case summary for student analysis and professor review, while explicitly not deciding whether the clinic should accept the case.
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → practice areas, intake templates, supervision style, flag triggers./legal-clinic:client-intake
Intake is one of the biggest bottlenecks in clinics. A student might spend 45 minutes interviewing, another hour writing it up, more time spotting the issues. Meanwhile the waitlist grows.
This skill structures the conversation, produces the write-up, spots issues across practice areas, and flags conflicts — so the student's time goes to analysis, not transcription.
What it doesn't do: decide whether to take the case. That's the student's analysis and the professor's judgment. Claude accelerates the information-gathering and structuring, not the lawyering.
~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md → practice areas, intake templates (per practice area if multiple), supervision style, jurisdiction, flag triggers.
Check for a practice-area guide at ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/guides/<practice-area>.md. If one exists, use its intake questions, red flags, and good-fit criteria instead of the generic defaults below. If one doesn't exist, use the generic intake and note at the end of the intake summary: "This was a generic intake — your supervisor can tailor the questions for your clinic type with /legal-clinic:build-guide."
When the intake starts before the practice area is routed (Step 1 of the workflow below), re-check for the guide after routing — the guide path depends on which practice area the intake landed in.
Which practice area does this intake start in? The client may not know — they know their problem, not the legal category.
"Tell me what's going on — what brought you to the clinic today?"
From the answer, route to the appropriate intake template. If the clinic handles multiple areas and the problem spans them (housing client mentions immigration status, family client mentions domestic violence), note all relevant areas — cross-area issue spotting is a feature, not a bug.
Each practice area asks different questions. Use the template from ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-clinic/CLAUDE.md for this area. Defaults if none provided:
Immigration:
Housing:
Family:
Consumer:
While running the practice-area template, listen for issues outside that area:
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No. The provided description explicitly says it handles structured intake, issue spotting, conflict flags, and triage organization, while case acceptance is decided by the student and professor.
It produces a formatted case summary, including an AI-assisted label, verification prompts, and supervision routing information. The docs also say it records cross-area issues and conflict flags.
The docs show that it reads a legal clinic configuration file and optional practice-area guides to load intake templates, supervision style, jurisdiction, and flag triggers. For exact installation details, see the source repository.
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