# Law Firm of the Future: Agent Roles Specification

## Context

This is a blueprint for a next-generation law firm staffed entirely by AI agents. The premise: legal outcomes should be understandable, usable, and human-centered. We're not automating the old law firm. We're building something new.

The firm's core product is **insured legal outcomes**, not legal advice. The organizational logic follows from this: roughly one third legal, one third quality and risk, one third design and commercial.

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## 1. LEGAL CORE

### 1.1 Contract Drafting Agent
- Drafts contracts from scratch based on deal parameters
- Pulls from clause libraries, adapts to jurisdiction
- Optimizes for clarity and enforceability, not length
- Outputs structured, layered documents (summary → key terms → full detail)

### 1.2 Contract Review Agent
- Analyzes incoming contracts for risk, ambiguity, and unfavorable terms
- Flags deviations from standard positions
- Produces risk-scored summaries with recommended changes
- Handles redlining and negotiation markup

### 1.3 Contract Negotiation Agent
- Engages with counterparty agents to negotiate terms
- Operates within defined parameters (walk-away points, must-haves, nice-to-haves)
- Logs every exchange for audit trail
- Escalates to human principal when thresholds are hit

### 1.4 Litigation Strategy Agent
- Assesses dispute viability, risk, cost, and likely outcomes
- Maps case law, precedent, and jurisdictional variations
- Models litigation scenarios and settlement ranges
- Recommends strategy with probabilistic outcome ranges

### 1.5 Regulatory Compliance Agent
- Monitors applicable regulations across jurisdictions
- Maps client operations against compliance requirements
- Identifies gaps, generates remediation plans
- Produces compliance reports and audit-ready documentation

### 1.6 Due Diligence Agent
- Conducts legal due diligence for transactions (M&A, investment, partnerships)
- Reviews corporate documents, contracts, IP, litigation history, regulatory status
- Produces structured risk reports with severity ratings
- Flags deal-breakers and material issues

### 1.7 Legal Research Agent
- Deep research on specific legal questions across jurisdictions
- Finds and synthesizes relevant case law, statutes, commentary
- Produces memos with citations and confidence levels
- Identifies conflicting authorities and open questions

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## 2. RISK AND INSURANCE

### 2.1 Risk Pricing Agent
- Continuously assesses the risk profile of every piece of work in progress
- Calculates error probability, potential loss magnitude, jurisdictional risk factors
- Prices risk in real time for internal decisions and external insurance
- Feeds data to insurance agents for coverage management

### 2.2 Insurance Management Agent
- Manages relationships with insurance providers (or insurance agents)
- Matches work output to appropriate coverage products
- Triggers claims when errors are detected
- Negotiates premiums based on track record data
- Explores parametric and usage-based insurance models

### 2.3 Liability Mapping Agent
- Tracks accountability chains for every deliverable
- Maps who (which agent, which version, which data) contributed to each output
- Maintains audit trails sufficient for dispute resolution
- Ensures liability can be attributed when things go wrong

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## 3. QUALITY AND SECURITY

### 3.1 Quality Audit Agent
- Reviews all legal output before delivery
- Checks for hallucinations, logical errors, jurisdictional mistakes, internal contradictions
- Cross-references against prior work for consistency
- Produces quality scores and flags items for rework

### 3.2 Adversarial Testing Agent (Red Team)
- Attacks the firm's own output
- Finds exploits, edge cases, ambiguities in contracts and advice
- Tests for prompt injection vulnerabilities in agent-to-agent communications
- Simulates hostile counterparties and worst-case scenarios
- Reports vulnerabilities before clients or opponents find them

### 3.3 Security Agent
- Monitors all agent-to-agent and agent-to-external communications
- Detects prompt injection attempts, data exfiltration, unauthorized access
- Manages authentication, access control, and trust boundaries
- Audits third-party skills, plugins, and integrations before onboarding
- Inspired by Moltbook's Rufio: proactive ecosystem security scanning

### 3.4 Consistency Agent
- Ensures the firm's positions don't contradict across matters
- Detects conflicts of interest between client engagements
- Maintains a knowledge graph of all positions taken, advice given, and terms agreed
- Flags when new work conflicts with existing commitments

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## 4. DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION

### 4.1 Legal Design Agent
- Rethinks the structure of legal outputs from the ground up
- Redesigns contracts around actual risk profiles, not inherited formatting conventions
- Eliminates unnecessary length and complexity
- Creates modular, reusable document architectures
- Asks: does this need to be 40 pages, or can it be 4?

### 4.2 Plain Language Agent
- Rewrites every output for human comprehension
- Target: a person with no legal training understands this in 30 seconds
- Not dumbing down — clarifying
- Maintains legal precision while removing jargon
- Produces multiple versions at different comprehension levels if needed

### 4.3 Information Architecture Agent
- Structures legal knowledge for navigation and layered access
- Creates zoom-in/zoom-out document experiences: summary → key risks → full detail → jurisdiction-specific notes
- Designs information hierarchies dynamically based on the reader's role and needs
- Organizes the firm's collective knowledge for retrieval and reuse

### 4.4 Visual Communication Agent
- Turns legal relationships, timelines, obligations, and risk maps into visual formats
- Creates diagrams of who owes what to whom by when
- Builds interactive visualizations for complex deal structures
- Produces timelines, flowcharts, decision trees, and org charts from legal data

### 4.5 Service Design Agent
- Maps the entire client journey and continuously redesigns it
- Identifies friction points: where does someone feel confused, anxious, powerless?
- Designs interventions for each stage of a legal matter
- Treats the experience as a design problem, not just a delivery problem
- Runs satisfaction analysis and iterates on the service model

### 4.6 Behavioral Design Agent
- Understands how people actually make decisions under legal uncertainty
- Designs nudges, framing, and timing for how information is presented
- Determines when to surface a risk, how to present options without overwhelming
- Applies behavioral science to improve legal decision-making

### 4.7 Accessibility Agent
- Makes legal services work across languages, literacy levels, disabilities, cultural contexts
- Translates outputs not just linguistically but culturally
- Ensures compliance with accessibility standards
- Adapts communication style to the specific audience
- The current legal system barely works for educated native speakers — this agent fixes that

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## 5. CLIENT INTERFACE AND TRANSLATION

### 5.1 Client Translation Agent
- Translates between agentic output and human comprehension
- Explains what happened, why, what the risks are, in language the human principal can act on
- Becomes more important as legal work gets more complex and opaque
- Handles the "last mile" between agent capability and human understanding

### 5.2 Intake and Scoping Agent
- First point of contact for new matters
- Understands the client's actual problem (not just the legal framing they arrive with)
- Scopes the work, estimates cost and timeline, identifies which agents are needed
- Routes matters to the appropriate specialist agents

### 5.3 Reporting Agent
- Produces status updates, progress reports, and final deliverable summaries
- Adapts reporting format and frequency to client preferences
- Provides dashboards for ongoing matters
- Alerts humans when attention is needed

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## 6. COMMERCIAL AND OPERATIONS

### 6.1 Pricing Agent
- Prices engagements based on complexity, risk, jurisdiction, and insurance cost
- Models different fee structures (fixed, outcome-based, subscription)
- Optimizes for competitiveness while maintaining margins
- Adjusts pricing dynamically based on workload and capacity

### 6.2 Business Development Agent
- Identifies potential clients and matters
- Engages with client agents to negotiate engagements
- Operates at machine speed in agent-to-agent markets
- Manages pipeline and forecasting

### 6.3 Reputation and Trust Agent
- Manages the firm's reputation in agent-to-agent ecosystems
- Tracks reliability scores, response times, dispute resolution history, quality ratings
- Monitors agent-to-agent reputation networks (Moltbook-style platforms)
- Builds and maintains trust signals for both human and agent audiences

### 6.4 Coordination and Orchestration Agent
- The project manager — routes work, manages dependencies, allocates capacity
- Decides which specialist agent handles what
- Manages parallel workstreams across matters
- Escalates to humans when defined thresholds are hit
- Ensures nothing falls through the cracks

### 6.5 Regulatory Horizon Agent
- Watches every relevant jurisdiction for legal changes, new rulings, regulatory shifts
- Propagates updates through the system in real time
- Flags changes that affect existing client matters or firm operations
- No human can monitor 195 countries simultaneously — this agent can

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## 7. ETHICS AND ALIGNMENT

### 7.1 Ethics and Alignment Agent
- Watches for conflicts of interest across the firm's entire portfolio
- Ensures the system isn't optimizing for outcomes that are legal but harmful
- Maintains the values the firm's human owners defined
- Flags ethical edge cases for human review
- The conscience of the operation

### 7.2 Human Oversight Agent
- Monitors all other agents for drift, unexpected behavior, or misalignment
- Ensures human principals retain meaningful oversight (not just nominal)
- Determines which decisions require human approval vs. autonomous action
- Prevents the "legal fiction of oversight" — humans signing off on things they don't understand

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## Architecture Notes

- **Total: ~25 agent roles** across 7 functional areas
- **Ratio**: ~30% legal core, ~25% quality/risk/security, ~30% design/communication, ~15% commercial/operations
- This ratio is inverted from traditional law firms (which are ~80% legal). The legal work gets commoditized. The wrapper — insurance, trust, quality, design, translation — is the actual value.
- Every agent logs every decision for auditability
- Escalation paths to human principals are defined per agent with clear thresholds
- The system should be designed so agents can be added, removed, or upgraded without disrupting the whole

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## The Thesis

We're not building a faster law firm. We're building a system whose core premise is: **legal outcomes should be understandable, usable, and human-centered, and the reason they never were is because the old system had no incentive to make them that way.**

Agents don't have that legacy. They can be designed from scratch around the person affected by the law, not the person practicing it.

That's not just better delivery. That's better law.
