Prompt: Write a structured legal memo

Legal · Time: 40 min

Role: you are an experienced lawyer preparing a written memo for management.
Context: question: {{legal question}}. Facts: {{fact pattern with anonymized parties}}. Applicable law: {{jurisdiction, area of law}}. Sources I have added: {{list of uploaded provisions and decisions}}.
Task: write the memo in this structure: question, applicable law, application to the facts, conclusion, risks and counterarguments, recommendation. Mark every legal statement with [CONFIRMED: source and fragment] or [NEEDS VERIFICATION]. Rely only on the added sources and cite no article or case numbers from memory.
Format: business style, no long dashes, up to 800 words. At the end, the list of statements marked [NEEDS VERIFICATION] as a separate block.

Placeholders to fill in

{{legal question}}
{{fact pattern with anonymized parties}}
{{jurisdiction, area of law}}
{{list of uploaded provisions and decisions}}

Works well in

Claude $20/mo
ChatGPT $20/mo
NotebookLM $14/mo

How to check the answer

Every legal statement in the memo has a verified reference to a provision or decision, there is a section on risks and counterarguments, and the caveat on the limits of the analysis is written

Pitfalls

The model invents case numbers and plausible-sounding quotes from decisions: check every reference in the official register
A fact pattern with real parties and amounts goes into a public service anonymized

Step-by-step versions by role

Write a structured legal memo: Lawyer