Best prompts for ChatGPT to summarize legal briefs
I'm a junior associate needing client-ready brief summaries from long legal documents without losing legal citations. Want prompt examples and validation checks.
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Two prompts:
1) “Client-ready 3-paragraph summary: Facts; Issue; Holding & reasoning. For every citation include exact citation and source paragraph number in brackets and verbatim quotes when critical.”
2) “IRAC: Issue; Rule (with statute/report citation); Analysis with quoted pin-cites; Conclusion (1 sentence).”
Validation checks:
- Ask for a “Citation map” linking quotes to source paragraph numbers.
- Confirm each citation text and pin cite matches the original.
- Verify the key holdings/issues weren’t omitted.
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