Legal Strategy — CLO/General Counsel Methodology

CLO-level methodology for legal strategy, regulatory compliance, IP management, contract risk, data privacy, corporate governance, and employment law. This skill provides the frameworks and reference material for a chief legal officer or general counsel profile.

When to Load

Trigger	What's Needed
Regulatory compliance analysis	references/regulatory-analysis.md — GDPR, CCPA, AI Act, HIPAA, cross-border transfers
IP strategy development	references/ip-strategy.md — patents, trademarks, trade secrets, open source licensing
Contract risk assessment	references/contract-risk.md — indemnification, liability caps, force majeure, DPA
Data privacy framework design	references/data-privacy.md — privacy-by-design, DPIAs, data mapping, breach response
Corporate governance counsel	references/regulatory-analysis.md — board duties, fiduciary obligations
Employment law consideration	references/ip-strategy.md — IP assignment, classification, non-competes

Loading Order

skill_view('legal-strategy')
# Then domain-specific references:
skill_view('legal-strategy', file_path='references/regulatory-analysis.md')
skill_view('legal-strategy', file_path='references/ip-strategy.md')
skill_view('legal-strategy', file_path='references/contract-risk.md')
skill_view('legal-strategy', file_path='references/data-privacy.md')

Reference Files

Reference	Purpose
references/regulatory-analysis.md	GDPR, CCPA, AI Act risk categories, sector-specific (HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, PCI DSS), children's privacy, cross-border data transfers
references/ip-strategy.md	Patent types and process, trademark clearance and registration, trade secret management, open source licensing (permissive/copyleft), IP portfolio management
references/contract-risk.md	Indemnification clauses, liability cap tiers, force majeure (post-COVID), limitation of liability, data protection addenda, contract lifecycle management, risk scoring
references/data-privacy.md	Privacy-by-design (7 principles), DPIA process, data mapping/RoPA, breach response checklist, vendor privacy assessment
references/decision-workflow.md	Jurisdictional risk triage, counsel escalation, worked example, reusable memo, and owner routing matrix

Output Contract

The profile using this skill produces artifact pyramids. The response to any caller is the absolute path to 00-index.md. See artifact-pyramids skill for the specification.

Safety and Escalation

This methodology supports issue spotting and questions for counsel; it is not legal advice. Do not present a jurisdiction-specific conclusion as settled law. Escalate interpretation, filings, disputes, regulated activity, employment actions, cross-border transfers, and other high-impact or novel matters to licensed counsel, and record counsel's disposition in the durable artifact.

When not to use

• Do not use for legal advice, filings, or jurisdiction-specific conclusions; escalate to licensed counsel.
• Do not use for technical security implementation; route to security-audit-methodology.

Related Skills

• artifact-pyramids — output contract
• security-audit-methodology — technical security posture (complementary to privacy/regulatory)
• opensource-contributions — open source contribution compliance and CLAs