Legal Due Diligence Checklist

Generates tailored legal due diligence checklists and templates to support transaction review and risk assessment for corporate and investment professionals.

Security Scan

This is a document-only, descriptive skill that produces legal due diligence checklists and templates, requires no credentials or installs, and its instructions align with the stated purpose.

Purpose & Capability

Name, description, and manifest (skill.json, README.md, SKILL.md) consistently describe a descriptive checklist/template generator. There are no requested binaries, env vars, config paths, or install steps that are unrelated to the stated purpose. ACCEPTANCE.md explicitly forbids code or network calls, which matches the skill's description.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md limits the skill to collecting user-provided facts/context and producing frameworks, checklists, templates, and prompts. It does not instruct the agent to read system files, access environment variables, call external endpoints, or execute commands. It also includes explicit safety/legal limitations and attorney-review reminders.

Install Mechanism

There is no install spec and no code files. This is the lowest-risk model: nothing is downloaded or written during install. The package is documentation-only.

Credentials

The skill requests no environment variables, no credentials, and no config paths. No sensitive tokens or unrelated service keys are requested or required.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false (default). The skill does not request permanent presence or modify other skills or system-wide settings. Autonomous invocation is allowed (platform default) but does not raise additional concerns given the skill's descriptive-only nature.

Assessment

This package is document-only and internally consistent with its stated purpose, so the immediate risk is low. Still: do not paste privileged or confidential client documents or sensitive personally identifiable information into prompts; treat outputs as informational templates only and verify all legal points with qualified counsel before relying on them; if a later version adds code (handler.py), network calls, or requests credentials, stop and re-evaluate provenance and permissions before using. If provenance matters to you, prefer skills from known publishers or ask the publisher for contact/verification details.

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.