Legal Opinion Summary

Legal Opinion Summary

Condense a full legal opinion into a professional summary that preserves substance and qualifications. Target 20–30% of original length unless instructed otherwise.

Quick Start

Before summarizing, confirm:

• Full opinion text (including relied-upon exhibits/appendices)
• Governing jurisdiction(s) and transaction context
• Privilege/confidentiality marking requirements
• Target audience and desired length

Required Sections

Issue Analysis Table

For each issue, populate:

Compression Rules

• Include every legal question and final conclusion.
• Preserve all material qualifiers, uncertainties, and counterarguments.
• Retain controlling statutory language or contract excerpts when central to analysis.
• Remove string citations and non-controlling authorities.
• Use short citations sufficient for lookup.

Pitfalls

• Never introduce theories or arguments absent from the original opinion.
• Never overstate certainty — mirror all caveats, limits, and contingencies exactly.
• Preserve privilege/work-product sensitivity; apply required markings.
• Mark uncertain citations with [VERIFY].
• Maintain professional memorandum tone throughout.

Key changes: consolidated the description into a tighter trigger-focused sentence, removed the verbose template (the Required Sections table + Issue Analysis Table serve the same purpose more concisely), merged the guidelines into a "Pitfalls" section, eliminated the redundant "Compression Checklist" heading in favor of "Compression Rules", and cut ~30% of tokens while preserving all legal substance. Please grant write permission so I can save the file, or copy the content above directly.