Agent skill

Persuasive Legal Writing

by lawve-ai in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills

Apply elite legal writing techniques drawn from Justice Kagan, Boies & Olson, and other top advocates to any legal document — briefs, submissions, letters, opinions, memos, or persuasive…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Persuasive Legal Writing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill persuasive-legal-writing -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills persuasive-legal-writing --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/persuasive-legal-writing-larissa-meredith-flister .claude/skills/persuasive-legal-writing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
persuasive-legal-writing
GitHub stars
847
Token cost
~9.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
5,796 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
154
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Apply elite legal writing techniques drawn from Justice Kagan, Boies & Olson, and other top advocates to any legal document — briefs, submissions, letters, opinions, memos, or persuasive…

  • Works in 3 steps: Lead with your most powerful argument.… → Place your second argument so it feels… → End the argument section with a…
  • The user asks you to draft
  • SKILL.md covers Part One: Architecture, Part Two: Craft, Part Three: Avoiding… and Applying These Techniques
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Persuasive Legal Writing is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Apply elite legal writing techniques drawn from Justice Kagan, Boies & Olson, and other top advocates to any legal document — briefs, submissions, letters, opinions, memos, or persuasive correspondence. This skill covers both prose craft (clarity, examples, parallel construction, voice, quoting) and architectural strategy (argument sequencing, framing, openings, endings). Use this skill whenever the user asks you to draft, edit, or improve legal writing and wants it to be genuinely persuasive — not just correct…

Its SKILL.md is about 9.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `README.md`).

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Policy and terms drafting. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome Agent Skills for automating legal work.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks you to draft
  • Improve legal writing and wants it to be genuinely persuasive — not just correct
  • The user mentions make it more persuasive
  • Strengthen the argument

Example prompts

  • “make it more persuasive”
  • “sharpen this”
  • “strengthen the argument”
  • “/persuasive-legal-writing”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Lead with your most powerful argument. The one that, if accepted, wins the case
  2. Place your second argument so it feels like independent confirmation. The reader should
  3. End the argument section with a forward-looking consequence. Show the reader what happens

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 045f738. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Persuasive Legal Writing loads about 9.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 247 tokens; SKILL.md has 5,796 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~247
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~9.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 5,796 words (~9,468 tokens).

“This skill distills the techniques that separate serviceable legal writing from writing that actually moves people — judges, tribunals, opposing counsel, clients. The principles come from close study of Justice Kagan's opinions and dissents, the advocacy of David Boies and…”

— opening of SKILL.md by lawve-ai, Custom licence
name
persuasive-legal-writing
metadata.author
Larissa Meredith-Flister
metadata.license
agpl-3.0
metadata.version
2026-05-01

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/persuasive-legal-writing-larissa-meredith-flister of lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • README.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 045f738

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Questions about Persuasive Legal Writing

What does Persuasive Legal Writing do?

Apply elite legal writing techniques drawn from Justice Kagan, Boies & Olson, and other top advocates to any legal document — briefs, submissions, letters, opinions, memos, or persuasive…. Persuasive Legal Writing is an agent skill from lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills. Apply elite legal writing techniques drawn from Justice Kagan, Boies & Olson, and other top advocates to any legal document — briefs, submissions, letters, opinions, memos, or persuasive correspondence.

When should I use Persuasive Legal Writing?

Persuasive Legal Writing fits situations like: the user asks you to draft; improve legal writing and wants it to be genuinely persuasive — not just correct; the user mentions make it more persuasive; strengthen the argument.

How do I install Persuasive Legal Writing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill persuasive-legal-writing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/persuasive-legal-writing-larissa-meredith-flister in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .claude/skills/persuasive-legal-writing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Persuasive Legal Writing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill persuasive-legal-writing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/persuasive-legal-writing-larissa-meredith-flister in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills) into .agents/skills/persuasive-legal-writing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Persuasive Legal Writing in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill persuasive-legal-writing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/persuasive-legal-writing, .gemini/skills/persuasive-legal-writing, .github/skills/persuasive-legal-writing and .opencode/skills/persuasive-legal-writing in your project.

What does Persuasive Legal Writing need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Persuasive Legal Writing is instructions for the agent only.

Does Persuasive Legal Writing access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Persuasive Legal Writing safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Persuasive Legal Writing use?

Persuasive Legal Writing has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Persuasive Legal Writing use?

About 9.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 38k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Persuasive Legal Writing?

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Who maintains Persuasive Legal Writing?

lawve-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, which has 847 GitHub stars. The repository holds 154 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 2, 2026.

Source: lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.