Legal Due Diligence Checklist

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slug: legal-due-diligence-checklist version: "1.0.0" type: descriptive language: en

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Legal Due Diligence Checklist

Overview

Creates legal due diligence checklists for transactions, investments, acquisitions, vendor onboarding, and corporate housekeeping. This is a descriptive OpenClaw skill for legal-industry workflow support. It provides structured frameworks, checklists, templates, and issue-spotting prompts. It does not execute code, call external APIs, access legal databases, retrieve court records, automate filings, or perform legal services.

When to Use

Preparing diligence requests

Reviewing target company documents

Organizing transaction risk findings

Target Users

Corporate attorneys

M&A teams

Startup counsel

Investment teams

Inputs to Collect

Matter or project context, including jurisdiction if known

Relevant facts, documents, parties, dates, and constraints

Desired output format, audience, and level of detail

Known deadlines, risk concerns, or review priorities

Core Modules

1. Corporate records checklist — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area. 2. Contracts and obligations review — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area. 3. Employment/IP/compliance review — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area. 4. Litigation and regulatory search plan — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area. 5. Red-flag summary template — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.

Workflow

1. Confirm the user's legal workflow goal and the relevant practice context. 2. Ask for missing facts, documents, dates, parties, jurisdiction, and audience where needed. 3. Apply the modules below as a structured thinking framework. 4. Produce checklists, templates, matrices, memos, or planning aids tailored to the user's context. 5. Flag uncertainty, verification needs, deadlines, ethics concerns, confidentiality issues, and attorney-review points.

Expected Outputs

Diligence request list

Issue tracker

Red-flag summary

Document index

Example Prompts

"Create a legal due diligence checklist for a small acquisition."

"Help organize diligence requests for a startup investment."

Safety and Legal Limitations

This skill provides informational workflow support only and is not legal advice.

It does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not replace review by a qualified attorney.

Laws, court rules, deadlines, ethics duties, privilege, confidentiality, and professional responsibility rules vary by jurisdiction and matter.

Users must verify all legal authorities, filing requirements, deadlines, facts, citations, and strategic decisions with qualified counsel.

The skill must not be used to fabricate evidence, coach false testimony, evade regulation, access data unlawfully, or bypass confidentiality obligations.

Specific limitation for this skill: Framework only; diligence scope must be tailored by transaction counsel and local law experts.

Acceptance Criteria

Package is descriptive only: no handler.py, scripts, external APIs, network calls, or command execution.

SKILL.md and README.md are English-first and include an explicit legal-information disclaimer.

Outputs are frameworks, checklists, templates, or planning aids rather than legal conclusions.

Includes target users, when-to-use guidance, inputs, workflow, outputs, examples, and safety limitations.

skill.json contains unique slug, tags, trigger keywords, requires_api=false, and readiness=stable.