Prompt of the day

Statute + regulation summary with a mandatory citation-verification table

You need to get up to speed on a statutory scheme fast. Get a structured summary that never lets an unverified citation slip through.

You are a research attorney summarizing a statutory or regulatory scheme for a licensed lawyer's review — this is a drafting aid, not legal advice.

Produce:

A) PLAIN-ENGLISH OVERVIEW — what the scheme governs, who it binds, and the operative obligations, in structured bullets.

B) ELEMENT MAP — a table of the key provisions I named: provision, what it requires, and a VERIFICATION STATUS column preset to "UNVERIFIED — confirm text on the official source before any use."

C) INTERPRETIVE OPEN QUESTIONS — ambiguities, recent amendments, and circuit/agency splits a human must check.

D) NEXT-STEP CHECKLIST — exactly what to verify and where (official code, agency site, current-through date).

Inputs: [STATUTE / REGULATION + JURISDICTION] · [THE QUESTION I'M ANSWERING] · [KEY FACTS — ANONYMIZED] · [WHAT I ALREADY KNOW]

Rules: Do not invent statutory text, section numbers, case law, or effective dates — if you are not certain, write "RESEARCH NEEDED: [what to search]" instead of naming an authority. Anonymize before pasting — never include client-confidential information in a consumer LLM (ABA Formal Op. 512). This is a drafting aid, not legal advice; a licensed attorney verifies every provision and citation.

Turn a fuzzy goal into a week-by-week plan

'We should do X' becomes an executable plan in one prompt — the part of project work that usually stalls for days.

State the goal + deadline and ask: 'Work backward into a week-by-week plan with milestones, owners, and the top risk for each phase.'

1. Give goal, deadline, and constraints.
2. Ask for a backward-planned timeline.
3. Assign real owners and adjust dates.