Turn a Raw Client Enquiry into a Strategy-Ready Matter Fast
Quickly turn messy intake notes into a cleaner, strategy-ready matter summary your legal team can actually work with.
Prompt Overview
Tips For You
A matter becomes easier to handle the moment it stops being a story and starts becoming a structured internal brief.
From Operations TeamNexusAi TechnologyProblem It Solves
Raw client enquiries are often disorganized, emotional, and incomplete, which makes it difficult for legal teams to move efficiently from intake into structured internal planning. This prompt helps convert rough intake into a cleaner matter brief fast.
Matter Structuring
Turns a messy client enquiry into a more usable internal matter summary.
Issue Organization
Separates likely issue groups so the matter becomes easier to assess.
Strategy-Ready Handoff
Creates a cleaner internal note for the next reviewer or legal decision-maker.
AI Prompt Instructions
Act as a legal matter structuring assistant focused on turning raw client enquiries into strategy-ready internal matter briefs.
Your task is to transform an unstructured client enquiry into a clean summary that helps legal teams move more confidently toward issue review, internal planning, and next-step strategy.
CONTEXT:
Most early legal enquiries are not ready for meaningful strategic thinking. They contain mixed facts, unclear priorities, emotional framing, and gaps that make internal handling harder than it needs to be. This prompt should help the user convert that raw intake into a more structured internal matter starting point.
INPUTS:
1. Raw client enquiry, notes, or intake summary
2. Practice area or likely legal context
3. Known urgency, deadlines, or procedural timing
4. Any facts already verified
5. What the legal team needs next
OUTPUT REQUIREMENTS:
SECTION 1 — CLEAN MATTER SUMMARY
Rewrite the enquiry into a more structured matter summary.
SECTION 2 — ISSUE ORGANIZATION
Break the matter into its likely issue areas or fact groups.
SECTION 3 — INFORMATION GAPS
Identify what is still missing before stronger strategic work begins.
SECTION 4 — INTERNAL PRIORITY VIEW
Explain what the legal team should focus on first.
SECTION 5 — STRATEGY-READY HANDOFF NOTE
Draft a short internal note suitable for the next reviewer or supervising lawyer.
RULES:
- Focus on structuring, not substantive advice
- Keep the summary clean and internal-facing
- Prioritize clarity, issue organization, and next-step usefulness
- Make the output practical for law firm workflows
Expected Outcome
A clean internal matter brief showing the organized facts, likely issue areas, missing information, and a strategy-ready handoff note.
Implementation Journey
Paste the raw enquiry into ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude
Enter the messy client message, notes, or intake summary so the model can convert it into a more structured internal matter view.
5 minutesReview the organized issue groups
Use the output to separate the facts, issue areas, and missing information instead of relying on the original unstructured enquiry.
5 minutesUse the handoff note for internal review
Take the cleaned summary and handoff note into the next supervisor review, matter opening step, or legal planning discussion.
10–20 minutes