magnus919_agent-skills/legal-strategy/references/decision-workflow.md

Legal Strategy Decision Workflow

This is a structured issue-spotting and escalation method, not legal advice. A licensed lawyer or qualified local counsel must review jurisdiction-specific conclusions before reliance or action.

Repeatable Method

1. Frame inputs: jurisdictions, entities, data/users, product behavior, contract text, dates, business objective, and known facts versus assumptions.
2. Issue-spot: identify applicable regimes, rights/obligations, trigger facts, conflicts, uncertainty, and potential harm. Cite primary sources or counsel questions; do not state an unverified conclusion as law.
3. Triage: classify impact and urgency (low/medium/high/critical), identify a reversible interim control, and escalate high-impact, novel, regulated, cross-border, dispute, employment, or filing matters to counsel.
4. Validate: counsel confirms interpretation, owner, deadline, control, and evidence. Revisit when jurisdiction, product, vendor, or law changes.
5. Package evidence: produce a dated jurisdictional risk/escalation memo with sources, assumptions, open questions, counsel disposition, and review date. Use artifact-pyramids for the evidence index.

Worked Example

A startup plans EU and US rollout of an AI feature that profiles business users. The memo separates known processing facts from assumptions, flags GDPR/AI Act and state privacy questions, rates the cross-border and automated-decision uncertainty high, and pauses launch of profiling until privacy counsel validates lawful basis, notices, transfer controls, and any required assessment. It routes security controls to security owners and records counsel's written disposition; it does not claim that the memo itself determines compliance.

Reusable Artifact

Jurisdictional risk and escalation memo
Matter / business decision / owner / date / review date
Jurisdictions and facts (known vs assumed):
Potential regimes and trigger facts:
Risk, uncertainty, urgency, reversible interim control:
Questions for licensed counsel:
Counsel disposition / conditions / deadline:
Evidence, decision log, and next review:

Routing Matrix

Need	Route to	Handoff in / out
Strategic trade-off	strategy-frameworks	Legal constraints in; strategic options out
Cost, reserve, or unit economics	financial-modeling	Exposure assumptions in; modeled scenarios out
Technical controls or architecture	technology-radar	Legal requirement in; feasible controls out
Remediation sequencing	implementation-planning	Counsel-approved work in; delivery sequence out
Evidence dossier	artifact-pyramids	Memo and sources in; durable index out

Do not invent a Phase 2 legal specialty skill. Escalate to licensed counsel for legal interpretation, filings, advice, or jurisdiction-specific action.