---
title: "Legal Risk Assessment Skill"
type: skill
id: "knowledge-work-plugins/legal/legal-risk-assessment"
category: "Legal & compliance"
publisher: "Anthropic"
license: "Apache-2.0"
source: "https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/d900840"
canonical: "https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/legal-risk-assessment"
open_in_pho: "https://pho.chat/customize?item=knowledge-work-plugins%2Flegal%2Flegal-risk-assessment&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library"
---

# Legal Risk Assessment Skill

Assess and classify legal risks using a severity-by-likelihood framework with escalation criteria. Use when evaluating contract risk, assessing deal exposure, classifying issues by severity, or determining whether a matter needs senior counsel or outside legal review.

Source: Anthropic (Apache 2.0), copied at a pinned commit. Free to use. Part of the Phở Skills library (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills).
Skill set: Legal (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal.md).

## What it covers
- Risk Assessment Framework
  - Severity x Likelihood Matrix
  - Risk Score Calculation
  - Risk Matrix Visualization
- Risk Classification Levels with Recommended Actions
  - GREEN -- Low Risk (Score 1-4)
  - YELLOW -- Medium Risk (Score 5-9)
  - ORANGE -- High Risk (Score 10-15)
  - RED -- Critical Risk (Score 16-25)
- Documentation Standards for Risk Assessments
  - Risk Assessment Memo Format
  - Risk Register Entry
- When to Escalate to Outside Counsel
  - Mandatory Engagement
  - Strongly Recommended Engagement
  - Consider Engagement
  - Selecting Outside Counsel

## Other skills in this set
- [Legal Team Briefing](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/brief.md): Generate contextual briefings for legal work — daily summary, topic research, or incident response. Use when starting your day and need a scan of legal-relevant items across email, calendar, and…
- [Compliance Review](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/compliance-check.md): Run a compliance check on a proposed action, product feature, or business initiative, surfacing applicable regulations, required approvals, and risk areas. Use when launching a feature that touches…
- [Generate Response from Templates](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/legal-response.md): Generate a response to a common legal inquiry using configured templates, with built-in escalation checks for situations that shouldn't use a templated reply. Use when responding to data subject…
- [Meeting Briefing Skill](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/meeting-briefing.md): Prepare structured briefings for meetings with legal relevance and track resulting action items. Use when preparing for contract negotiations, board meetings, compliance reviews, or any meeting…
- [Contract Review Against Playbook](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/review-contract.md): Review a contract against your organization's negotiation playbook — flag deviations, generate redlines, provide business impact analysis. Use when reviewing vendor or customer agreements, when you…
- [E-Signature Routing](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/signature-request.md): Prepare and route a document for e-signature — run a pre-signature checklist, configure signing order, and send for execution. Use when a contract is finalized and ready to sign, when verifying…
- [NDA Pre-Screening](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/triage-nda.md): Rapidly triage an incoming NDA and classify it as GREEN (standard approval), YELLOW (counsel review), or RED (full legal review). Use when a new NDA arrives from sales or business development, when…
- [Vendor Agreement Status](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/vendor-check.md): Check the status of existing agreements with a vendor across all connected systems — CLM, CRM, email, and document storage — with gap analysis and upcoming deadlines. Use when onboarding or renewing…

## Use it
- In Phở: open https://pho.chat/customize?item=knowledge-work-plugins%2Flegal%2Flegal-risk-assessment&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library and press Try, or add it so Phở loads it whenever a request matches. Phở works with your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others).
- Full instructions (original SKILL.md, unchanged): https://labs.pho.chat/skills/raw/knowledge-work-plugins/legal/skills/legal-risk-assessment/SKILL.md
- Original files: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/d900840 (Apache 2.0).
- Full machine-readable index: https://labs.pho.chat/skills.json