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Research Memo Skeleton: a playbook you can actually use.

Organize legal research without inventing authority. This page gives you a copy-ready prompt, a controlled workflow, a practical tool stack, and a mini-agent concept you can implement gradually.

Copy-ready prompt

Using only the supplied legal authorities, create a research-memo skeleton: issue, governing authorities, rule statements with citations, factual application questions, counterpoints, and unresolved research gaps

Inputs to supply: research question, jurisdiction, date, supplied cases/statutes/secondary sources

Using only the supplied legal authorities, create a research-memo skeleton: issue, governing authorities, rule statements with citations, factual application questions, counterpoints, and unresolved research gaps. Do not invent cases, quotations, holdings, or citations.
Controlled workflow

From intake to human-approved action.

Attorney question
authoritative sources
AI structures memo
attorney verifies every citation/proposition
Tool stack

Use the fewest tools that solve the problem.

These are example tool categories and common products—not endorsements. Prefer tools you already operate, can secure, and can integrate cleanly.

LLMenterprise/approved ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or legal-specific platform
DMS/practice managementyour approved system
researchauthoritative legal databases.
Mini-agent concept

Legal Research Organizer

A narrow assistant for this one workflow—not an autonomous replacement for staff. Give it approved source information, restrict what it may decide, log outputs, and require human approval at the consequential step.

Guardrail

Where the human stays in charge.

Attorney review is mandatory. Protect privilege/confidentiality, verify citations and authorities, use approved legal-research sources, and never treat generated text as legal judgment.
From playbook to production

Want this workflow built for your business?

CYBERSIDE can help adapt the prompt, connect it to your actual tools and data, define review rules, test the workflow, and train the people who will use it.