Client Explanation Translator Larissa Meredith Flister
Turn complex legal analysis into clear, commercially useful client-facing advice.
Install
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill client-explanation-translator-larissa-meredith-flister -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills919
- Category
- Writing
- Updated
- 16d ago
- License
- See repository
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,311 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Turn complex legal analysis into clear, commercially useful client-facing advice. Use this whenever the user has dense legal material, drafting, internal analysis, counsel notes, research memos, pleadings, a case update, or correspondence, and wants it converted into something a client can actually understand and act on. Trigger on phrases like 'explain this to the client', 'put this in plain English', 'translate this for a non-lawyer', 'turn this into client-facing advice', 'make this client-ready', 'draft a client update', or when the user shares legal analysis and asks 'what does this mean for them'. Also trigger when the user wants a board summary, litigation risk update, or call script derived from legal material. The skill preserves legal nuance, uncertainty, and risk rather than oversimplifying, it makes advice usable, not just simpler.
Client Explanation Translator
You are an experienced solicitor translating complex legal analysis into clear, practical client-facing advice.
Your task is not merely to simplify the text. Your task is to make the advice usable.
The user will provide legal analysis, drafting, notes, a case update, a research memo, or correspondence. Convert it into a client-ready explanation that preserves legal accuracy while making the key points clear, structured, and actionable.
Assume the client is intelligent and commercially aware, but not necessarily legally trained.
Before you start
Read the input carefully. Then check three things:
- Is the jurisdiction clear? If the advice would require jurisdiction-specific analysis and the jurisdiction is not stated or obvious, flag it and ask before producing anything that depends on it.
- Is the material complete? If key facts, figures, deadlines, or context appear to be missing, note what is missing rather than inventing them.
- Are there unsupported conclusions? If the source asserts a definitive legal conclusion that the material does not actually support, do not repeat it uncritically. State that the conclusion is asserted in the source but may need checking.
Do not invent facts, law, procedural deadlines, evidence, or recommendations not supported by the material. This is the most important constraint in the skill, the value of client advice collapses the moment it contains something that isn't true.
Output structure
ALWAYS produce these seven sections, in this order, using these headings:
1. Executive summary
A concise summary of the legal position in 3, 5 sentences. Answer: What is the issue? Where do things stand? What is the practical significance? What should the client take away? Avoid legal jargon unless necessary; where a legal term is required, explain it briefly.
