# Attorney Review Gate > Use when running a final quality gate before legal draft work product is sent, filed, relied upon, or delivered for attorney review, producing must-confirm facts, law, citations, client decisions, ethics flags, privilege flags, jurisdiction/deadline flags, and a ready-or-not-ready status. - Skill: `zgbrenner/attorney-review-gate` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add zgbrenner/attorney-review-gate` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/zgbrenner/attorney-review-gate/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: zgbrenner (https://skillmd.com/u/zgbrenner) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/zgbrenner/attorney-review-gate --- # Attorney Review Gate ## Purpose Run the final pre-reliance quality gate for draft legal work product. The skill consolidates must-confirm facts, must-confirm law, must-confirm citations, client decision points, ethical/professional-responsibility flags, privilege/confidentiality flags, jurisdiction/deadline flags, and a status of "ready for attorney review" or "not ready for attorney review." This gate does not approve, certify, or finalize legal work. It organizes the issues a qualified attorney must review before reliance. ## Use When - A high-risk legal output is about to be sent, filed, delivered, or relied upon. - A draft demand letter, client memo, research summary, risk assessment, contract review, or filing-bound draft needs final attorney-review triage. - Other quality checks have produced findings that need to be consolidated. - The user asks whether a draft is ready for attorney review. ## Required Inputs - The complete final draft to gate. - Source materials, citations, assumptions, and prior quality-check reports if available. - Intended recipient, use, jurisdiction, governing law, posture, and any deadline context. - Any client decisions, business positions, or attorney instructions already supplied. If the draft is missing, stop and request it. ## Do Not Use When - The user wants the agent to approve, sign, send, file, or certify the draft. - The draft has not been prepared yet. - The user asks for legal advice or final legal judgment. ## Legal Safety Rules - Produce draft legal work product for attorney review. This is not legal advice. - A "ready for attorney review" status means ready to be reviewed by an attorney, not ready for reliance or external use. - Do not check boxes as if acting for the attorney. List items for attorney confirmation. - Follow `core/source-and-citation-discipline.md`; do not invent legal authority, citations, quotations, facts, or deadlines. - Do not resolve legal conclusions, citations, deadlines, or privilege questions by guessing. - Preserve confidentiality and privilege. ## Workflow 1. **Confirm gate scope.** Identify draft type, recipient, intended use, jurisdiction, deadlines, and prior quality checks. 2. **Collect must-confirm facts.** List material facts, source-dependent facts, and facts whose change would alter the output. 3. **Collect must-confirm law.** List legal rules, standards, thresholds, elements, exceptions, and current-law questions. 4. **Collect must-confirm citations.** List every authority, quotation, pin cite, and source that must be checked. 5. **Collect client decisions.** List settlement authority, risk tolerance, business positions, tone choices, waiver decisions, and sign-off items. 6. **Identify ethics and professional-responsibility flags.** Include legal-advice framing, unauthorized-practice risk, conflicts, candor, fairness, third-party disclosure, and competence/supervision issues. 7. **Identify privilege and confidentiality flags.** Include sensitive facts, privileged communications, work-product labels, anonymization needs, and external-facing redactions. 8. **Identify jurisdiction and deadline flags.** Include unknown jurisdiction, governing law, venue, agency, court, response dates, filing dates, notice periods, limitations periods, and effective dates. 9. **Assign status.** Use: - **Ready for attorney review** if the draft is complete enough for an attorney to review with listed confirmation items. - **Not ready for attorney review** if missing inputs, unsupported authorities, unresolved assumptions, or confidentiality issues prevent meaningful review. 10. **State reasons.** If not ready, explain exactly what must be provided or corrected. ## Output Format Deliver: 1. **Draft Label** — "Draft legal work product for attorney review. Not legal advice." 2. **Gate Status** — Ready for attorney review / Not ready for attorney review. 3. **Reasons for Status** — Short bullet list. 4. **Must-Confirm Facts** 5. **Must-Confirm Law** 6. **Must-Confirm Citations and Sources** 7. **Client Decision Points** 8. **Ethics and Professional-Responsibility Flags** 9. **Privilege and Confidentiality Flags** 10. **Jurisdiction and Deadline Flags** 11. **Attorney Review Checklist** ## Attorney Verification Checklist - [ ] All must-confirm facts have been checked against the record or client instructions. - [ ] All must-confirm law has been researched and confirmed by counsel. - [ ] All citations, quotations, and pin cites have been independently verified. - [ ] All client decision points have been resolved or escalated. - [ ] All ethics and professional-responsibility flags have been reviewed. - [ ] Privilege and confidentiality treatment is appropriate for the recipient. - [ ] Jurisdiction, governing law, venue, posture, and deadlines are confirmed. - [ ] The draft remains marked as draft legal work product for attorney review, not legal advice.