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Semester Handoff Memos

Produces per-case handoff memos and a cohort summary so departing law clinic students pass work cleanly.

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Repository
anthropics/claude-for-legal
Stars
9,870
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
1 file

What it does

This skill helps a law clinic hand active client cases from departing students to incoming students at the end of a semester. When run, the agent reads the clinic's configuration, deadline list and client communication logs, then writes a handoff memo for each case covering status, pending deadlines, open decisions, client relationship notes and first-week priorities. It also writes a cohort summary table showing who is taking over which case. The memos are saved as files in the clinic's configuration folder.

Great for

  • Law clinic professors orchestrating end-of-semester offboarding of a whole cohort
  • Students graduating or withdrawing mid-semester who need to transfer their own cases
  • Clinics that already keep deadlines.yaml and client-comms logs in the expected folder layout

Skip it if

  • Firms or organisations outside a clinic setting, since the paths and workflow assume clinic roles (reason: the skill is built around clinic supervision models)
  • Use on live client matters without professor review, since the memos are meant to be checked before they reach incoming students and may contain sensitive client information (reason: privacy and supervision risk)
  • Clinics without maintained deadline and communication records, since the output would be incomplete or guessed (reason: the skill is told not to guess the active case list)

Try asking

  • “Wrap up the semester for the clinic and generate handoff memos for all active cases”
  • “Build a transition memo for the eviction defence case I am leaving with the incoming student”
  • “Create the cohort summary showing outgoing and incoming owners for spring 2026”
  • “Offboard a student withdrawing mid-semester from their single case”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Semester Handoff MemosInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    semester-handoff.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip semester-handoff.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip semester-handoff.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Review every generated memo before it goes to the incoming student, especially the professor flags and client relationship sections, since they may contain sensitive details
  • Keep deadlines.yaml and client-comms logs current before running it, because the memos are only as accurate as those source files
  • Supply the active-case list yourself if the clinic has no central record, rather than relying on the agent to infer it

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from anthropics/claude-for-legal under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.