sustainable-opposing-counsel-review
Produces an adversarial attack on a legal argument that survives reply. Runs the opposing-counsel discipline twice: an unrestrained first pass, then the same instrument turned on that pass to cut every point that collapses under challenge - attacks on conceded facts, wrong-forum objections, speculation about documents and motives, gotchas with innocent explanations, overclaims, self-refuting assertions, and padding. The deliverable is one standalone attack containing only what can be defended, capped at five heads, not a discussion of the discarded draft. Use to attack, stress-test, red-team o
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill sustainable-opposing-counsel-review-seth-chandler --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Sustainable Opposing Counsel Review ## Attribution This skill is a derivative work. It wraps and extends **Opposing Counsel Review** by **Larissa Meredith-Flister** (Apache-2.0), which supplies the adversarial method, the six-part analytical structure, and the register. Her skill is the instrument; this one runs it twice and turns it on its own first output. Where the two conflict, the additions here govern. See `NOTICE`. ## What "sustainable" means An attack is sustainable when every point in it survives a single sentence of reply. The failure mode this skill exists to cure is not weakness — it is exuberance. A first adversarial pass, written under instruction to find every way to win, reliably produces four or five points that decide the matter and another eight that a competent opponent will use to discredit the first four. Volume is not force. A tribunal forms a view of counsel's judgement before it forms a view of the merits, and a submission that treats a typographical discrepancy as a surgical strike alongside a structural objection has disclosed that counsel cannot tell them apart. The instruction is therefore narrower than "attack this." It is: attack this, then find out
- Attribution
- What "sustainable" means
- Process
- Pass 1 — Unrestrained attack (internal)
- Pass 2 — Turn the instrument on Pass 1 (internal)
- Pass 3 — Rebuild (the deliverable)
- Output structure
- Output discipline
- Style
- Hard rules
- Bundled resources
- Limitations and risks
What does the sustainable-opposing-counsel-review skill do?
Produces an adversarial attack on a legal argument that survives reply. Runs the opposing-counsel discipline twice: an unrestrained first pass, then the same instrument turned on that pass to cut every point that collapses under challenge - attacks on conceded facts, wrong-forum objections, speculation about documents and motives, gotchas with innocent explanations, overclaims, self-refuting assertions, and padding. The deliverable is one standalone attack containing only what can be defended, capped at five heads, not a discussion of the discarded draft. Use to attack, stress-test, red-team o
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill sustainable-opposing-counsel-review-seth-chandler --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, a repository with 618 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.