# Brief analyzer
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Analyze legal briefs for argument strength, authority quality, factual support, logical coherence, and persuasive effectiveness.

Analyze legal briefs for argument strength, authority quality, factual support, logical coherence, and persuasive effectiveness. Operates as "code review for legal writing" — systematically evaluating brief structure (IRAC/CRAC/CREAC), standard-of-review alignment, citation quality and currency, statement of facts persuasiveness, counter-argument anticipation, and court-rules compliance. Supports own-brief review (improve before filing) and opposing-brief deconstruction (find weaknesses to exploit). Produces structured findings with classification (STRONG / NEEDS WORK / VULNERABLE / CRITICAL), confidence-scored assessments, actionable rewrite suggestions, and a Glass Box audit trail. Jurisdiction-agnostic at baseline with [JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC] markers for US federal, England & Wales, and Australia. Integrates with legalcode-mcp for live authority validation via WebSearch.

This skill performs comprehensive quality analysis of legal briefs — motions, memoranda of law, appellate briefs, skeleton arguments, and written submissions — evaluating them across ten dimensions of effectiveness. It is designed for two primary use cases: 1. **Own-Brief Review** (pre-filing quality assurance): Systematically identify weaknesses in your own brief before submission, with actionable rewrite suggestions and priority-ranked findings. 2. **Opposing-Brief Deconstruction** (strategic exploitation): Analyze the opposing party's brief to identify logical gaps, authority weaknesses, factual overstatements, and unexploited concessions. The skill applies established legal writing frameworks (IRAC, CRAC, CREAC), scoring criteria from major advocacy competitions, and judicial perspectives on brief effectiveness to produce confidence-scored, citation-linked assessments. **Covers:** - **Argument structure**: IRAC/CRAC/CREAC compliance, issue framing, rule synthesis, application depth - **Standard of review**: Correct identification and consistent application throughout the brief - **Authority quality**: Binding vs. persuasive hierarchy, case currency, adverse authority omissions, citation format compliance - **Factual foundation**: Statement of facts persuasiveness, record support, characterization accuracy - **Logical coherence**: Fallacy detection, burden allocation, statutory interpretation methodology - **Counter-argument anticipation**: Pre-emption completeness, strawman avoidance, strongest-argument engagement - **Writing quality**: Clarity, concision, active voice usage, sentence structure, precision of language - **Court-rules compliance**: Page/word limits, formatting requirements, certificate of compliance, citation ...

## Jurisdictions

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