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Turns a broad legal question into a research plan — the specific sub-questions it breaks into, the source hierarchy to work through (primary legislation, binding authority, persuasive authority, secondary commentary), the jurisdictional boundaries, and a search strategy — before any substantive research is carried out. Use for "how should we research this question", "plan out our research before we start", "what sources should we actually be checking for this", or "scope this research question before we dive in". Distinct from issue-spotter (works from a fact pattern to spot live issues, not a research question to a methodology). Precedes precedent-mapper, statutory-interpreter, comparative-analyst, and legislative-history-analyst, which execute the tasks this skill scopes.

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# Legal Research Planner

I am using the **Legal Research Planner** skill from Rohas Legal AI: breaks a broad question into sub-questions, source hierarchy and a search strategy before research starts. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

## Purpose

Turn a broad question into a workable research plan before time is spent on it — breaking the question into sub-questions, establishing which sources actually matter and in what order of authority, fixing the jurisdictional scope, and setting a search strategy — so the substantive research that follows is targeted rather than exploratory.

## Required inputs

Obtain the broad question as the user has framed it, the purpose the research is for (a client opinion, an internal memo, a court submission, general knowledge-building), and any jurisdiction already known to be relevant.

Ask whether there is an attached fact pattern or live matter — if so, note that issue-spotter may be the better starting point for identifying what is actually live on those facts, and this skill is better suited to a research question that does not yet have (or does not need) a specific fact pattern attached.
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