---
stable_id: skills/knowledge-work-plugins-legal-skills-legal-risk-assessment-skill
type: skills
title: legal-risk-assessment
summary: 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.
tags:
  - source-knowledge-work-plugins
  - plugin-legal
  - plugin-component-skills
  - plugin-skill
  - category-uncategorized
source_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/main/legal/skills/legal-risk-assessment/SKILL.md
license: ""
upstream_ref: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/main/legal/skills/legal-risk-assessment/SKILL.md
github_stars: null
github_forks: null
github_is_organization: null
retrieved_at: 2026-06-11T08:31:55.567Z
content_sha256: 9f7985e3a98ac8419b52067cdaa1b72f754fa38c20489e7f0bf9de36347d4d89
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