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Legal & Compliance prompts
Prompts scoped honestly for non-lawyers doing real work adjacent to legal documents — plain-English contract summaries, clause comparison, policy and privacy-notice drafts, compliance checklists — always framed as a first pass for a professional to review, never a substitute for licensed legal advice.
Every prompt lists the exact tool and version it was tested against.
Turn a long contract into a summary a non-lawyer signer can actually act onProduces a plain-language summary of a contract's obligations, deadlines, and money terms for someone who has to sign it but isn't a lawyer, with an explicit flag on anything that needs a real attorney's eyes before signature.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-08Flag the clauses in a draft contract that carry outsized risk before it goes back to the other sideScans a contract draft for clauses that create disproportionate risk relative to the deal size, ranks them by exposure, and produces redline talking points — framed as a starting point for negotiation, not a legal opinion.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-08Build a signing checklist for an NDA that flags one-sided terms before you agree to itWalks through a draft NDA against a plain checklist of common one-sided terms — scope, duration, mutuality, carve-outs — and produces a go/hold list, framed as prep for a lawyer's review rather than a substitute for one.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-09Diff two versions of a contract clause and explain what actually changed in practiceCompares an original clause against a counterparty's redline and translates the change into what it means for you in practice, not just what words moved — built for spotting redlines that look small but shift real risk.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-09Translate a dense legal document into plain English without losing what actually mattersRewrites a legal document section by section into plain language a general reader can follow, preserving every substantive obligation and condition rather than just simplifying the vocabulary.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-10Draft a first-pass internal policy document that a real reviewer can mark up instead of starting from a blank pageProduces a structured first draft of an internal company policy — scope, rules, exceptions, enforcement — built to be edited by legal and leadership, not adopted as-is.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-10Turn a regulation you name into a working checklist your team can actually run againstConverts a compliance requirement you specify into a structured, assignable checklist with owners and evidence needed — built to organize what your team already knows applies, not to determine what the law requires.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-11Draft a privacy policy first pass structured around what you actually do with data, not a generic templateProduces a structured privacy policy draft built from your actual data practices — what you collect, why, who you share it with — rather than a boilerplate template with blanks filled in, flagged clearly as a draft for legal review.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-11Outline a Terms of Service structure scoped to what your product actually does before a lawyer fills it inProduces a section-by-section Terms of Service outline built around your product's actual features and business model, with each section's purpose explained, so a lawyer starts from a scoped structure instead of a blank page or a mismatched template.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-12Prep for a vendor contract review call so you walk in with the right questions, not just the documentTurns a vendor contract draft into a prioritized list of questions and points to raise on the review call, organized around what actually matters for this specific vendor relationship rather than a generic contract checklist.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-12Draft an employee handbook policy section that a manager could actually apply consistentlyProduces one handbook policy section at a time, written for consistent day-to-day application by managers who aren't HR specialists, flagged as a first draft pending HR and legal sign-off.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Build a compliance risk register that ranks by actual exposure instead of listing every possible risk equallyConverts a list of compliance areas into a ranked risk register with likelihood, impact, and current mitigation status, so leadership sees where to act first instead of a flat inventory of everything that could go wrong.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Turn a regulatory change you've heard about into a one-page brief leadership can actually act onStructures a regulatory change you describe into a concise internal brief covering what it means for your organization specifically and what needs to happen next, without asserting facts about the regulation you haven't verified.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-14Spot the legal issues buried in a messy fact pattern before you take it to a lawyerReads a real-world situation you describe and identifies which legal issues it might implicate, framed explicitly as issue-spotting to prepare for a lawyer conversation, never as an answer to whether you're in the right.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-14Build a due diligence question list scoped to what actually makes this specific deal riskyProduces a prioritized due diligence question list for a specific acquisition or investment, organized by which questions matter most given the deal's actual shape, rather than a generic due diligence template.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-14Turn a redlined contract draft into a negotiation-points briefing your team can actually use in the callBuilds a ranked negotiation-points briefing from a contract draft and your fallback positions, sorted by which clauses are worth spending leverage on versus which to concede early — framed throughout as a draft for a qualified lawyer to review before it's used in any actual negotiation.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-08Translate a lawyer's redline into a plain-language summary business stakeholders will actually readConverts tracked-changes contract redlines into a short, non-legal summary of what changed and why it might matter to the deal, so a busy stakeholder can decide what to ask about before signing — always flagged as a draft aid pending a qualified lawyer's review.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-09Pull every ongoing obligation out of a signed contract into a tracker someone can actually operationalizeExtracts every recurring duty, deadline, and reporting requirement buried in a contract's text into a structured obligation tracker with owners and cadences, so post-signature compliance doesn't depend on someone remembering a clause on page 34.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-09Build a renewal-and-notice-window tracker from a stack of contracts before an auto-renewal sneaks past youReads multiple contracts' renewal and termination-notice clauses and produces a single sorted tracker of upcoming deadlines with lead-time buffers, so nobody discovers an auto-renewal three days after the notice window already closed.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-10Draft an issue-spotting memo that separates what you know from what needs a lawyer's actual researchProduces a structured IRAC-style issue-spotting memo from a fact pattern, clearly separating stated facts from open legal questions that require actual research and sign-off, built explicitly as a first-pass internal draft rather than a legal opinion.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-10Turn a pile of dated documents and emails into a clean evidence chronology without editorializing what it provesOrganizes messy, dated source material into a strict chronological timeline of events with source citations for each entry, deliberately stripped of any interpretation about what the sequence proves — built as a working draft for a qualified lawyer to verify and interpret.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-11Summarize what you already know about a legal question so a lawyer's research starts from an organized baselineOrganizes your team's existing knowledge, prior counsel notes, and open questions about a legal issue into a structured research brief that flags exactly what's assumed versus confirmed, so outside counsel's actual research time isn't spent re-deriving what you already had.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-11Turn a rambling client intake call into a structured summary a lawyer can triage in two minutesConverts raw intake notes or a call transcript into a structured client-matter summary with urgency flags and missing-information gaps clearly marked, so a lawyer's first read is triage-ready instead of a re-transcription exercise.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-12Outline a compliance training module from your actual policy, not a generic template that ignores itBuilds a training module outline — learning objectives, scenario-based exercises, and a knowledge check — grounded specifically in your organization's existing policy text, flagged as a draft for legal or compliance review before it's used to train anyone.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-12Build an audit-readiness checklist from your actual control list, not a generic compliance frameworkTurns your organization's stated controls and known gaps into a prioritized, evidence-mapped audit prep checklist that flags what documentation is missing before the auditor asks for it, framed as a working draft for a qualified compliance professional or lawyer to finalize.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-12Check a vendor's data processing agreement against your actual requirements before it goes to legalCompares a vendor-supplied DPA against your stated data-handling requirements clause by clause, flagging gaps and mismatches so legal's actual review starts from a pre-sorted list instead of a blank read-through, always framed as a pre-review draft.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Draft an internal AI governance policy scoped to how your teams are actually using AI, not a boilerplate frameworkBuilds a first-draft AI governance policy grounded in your organization's actual tool usage, risk tiers, and approval workflow, explicitly positioned as a starting point for legal and compliance to revise rather than a finished, enforceable policy.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Write an employee-facing AI use policy short enough that people actually read it before ignoring itProduces a concise, plain-language employee AI use policy covering approved tools, data red lines, and disclosure rules, deliberately kept short and specific so it gets read rather than skimmed, framed as a draft pending legal sign-off.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Draft a record retention schedule from your actual document types, not a generic industry templateBuilds a record retention schedule mapped to your organization's real document categories and business reasons for keeping or discarding them, flagging every retention period that needs actual legal confirmation instead of asserting one.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-14Draft a first-pass answer to a recurring internal legal question so the actual lawyer only has to edit, not start from scratchProduces a draft response to a common internal legal-adjacent question, built strictly from prior approved answers and explicitly flagged wherever the current question differs from what was previously covered, so a lawyer's review is fast and the answer never gets sent without sign-off.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-14
