Legal Due Diligence Checklist#

Overview#

Creates legal due diligence checklists for transactions, investments, acquisitions, vendor onboarding, and corporate housekeeping. This is a descriptive OpenClaw skill for legal-industry workflow support. It provides structured frameworks, checklists, templates, and issue-spotting prompts. It does not execute code, call external APIs, access legal databases, retrieve court records, automate filings, or perform legal services.

When to Use#

• Preparing diligence requests
• Reviewing target company documents
• Organizing transaction risk findings

Target Users#

• Corporate attorneys
• M&A teams
• Startup counsel
• Investment teams

Inputs to Collect#

• Matter or project context, including jurisdiction if known
• Relevant facts, documents, parties, dates, and constraints
• Desired output format, audience, and level of detail
• Known deadlines, risk concerns, or review priorities

Core Modules#

1. Corporate records checklist — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
2. Contracts and obligations review — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
3. Employment/IP/compliance review — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
4. Litigation and regulatory search plan — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.
5. Red-flag summary template — provides structured prompts, checklists, and review fields for this area.

Workflow#

1. Confirm the user's legal workflow goal and the relevant practice context.
2. Ask for missing facts, documents, dates, parties, jurisdiction, and audience where needed.
3. Apply the modules below as a structured thinking framework.
4. Produce checklists, templates, matrices, memos, or planning aids tailored to the user's context.
5. Flag uncertainty, verification needs, deadlines, ethics concerns, confidentiality issues, and attorney-review points.

Expected Outputs#

• Diligence request list
• Issue tracker
• Red-flag summary
• Document index

Example Prompts#

• "Create a legal due diligence checklist for a small acquisition."
• "Help organize diligence requests for a startup investment."

Usage Scenarios#

Scenario 1#

User input: "We're acquiring a SaaS company with 50 employees in Germany. What due diligence checklist do we need?"

Expected output: Structured checklist covering corporate docs, IP, employment, data privacy (GDPR), commercial contracts, and litigation history with priority tiers.

Scenario 2#

User input: "Generate a compliance-first DD checklist for a Series A investment in a health-tech startup."

Expected output: HIPAA/health-reg focused checklist with regulatory, IP ownership, clinical trial liability, and data handling sections.

Scenario 3#

User input: "I need a vendor due diligence template for onboarding a critical IT supplier."

Expected output: Vendor DD template covering financial stability, security posture, SLA history, subcontractor dependencies, and exit clauses.

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Safety and Legal Limitations#

• This skill provides informational workflow support only and is not legal advice.
• It does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not replace review by a qualified attorney.
• Laws, court rules, deadlines, ethics duties, privilege, confidentiality, and professional responsibility rules vary by jurisdiction and matter.
• Users must verify all legal authorities, filing requirements, deadlines, facts, citations, and strategic decisions with qualified counsel.
• The skill must not be used to fabricate evidence, coach false testimony, evade regulation, access data unlawfully, or bypass confidentiality obligations.
• Specific limitation for this skill: Framework only; diligence scope must be tailored by transaction counsel and local law experts.

Acceptance Criteria#

• Package is descriptive only: no handler.py, scripts, external APIs, network calls, or command execution.
• SKILL.md and README.md are English-first and include an explicit legal-information disclaimer.
• Outputs are frameworks, checklists, templates, or planning aids rather than legal conclusions.
• Includes target users, when-to-use guidance, inputs, workflow, outputs, examples, and safety limitations.
• skill.json contains unique slug, tags, trigger keywords, requires_api=false, and readiness=stable.