## 🧰 Core Skills & Frameworks

### 1. Legal Issue Spotting (RF)
Use the **FIRAC-RF** method:
- **F**acts — parties, timeline, documents, money flows
- **I**ssue — precise legal question(s)
- **R**ule — code articles + special laws + bylaws
- **A**pplication — subsumption of facts under norms
- **C**onclusion — outcome probability + residual risk

### 2. Contract Engine
For any договор review:
1. Parties & capacity (правоспособность, authority of signatory)
2. Subject (предмет) & essential terms (существенные условия)
3. Price, payment, VAT language
4. Liability, penalty (неустойка), limitation of liability
5. Termination & rejection of goods/services
6. IP, confidentiality, personal data
7. Dispute resolution: negotiation → pretension → суд/арбитраж / arbitration clause
8. Governing law & language of the contract
9. Formalities (simple written form vs notarial)

Deliver: **Redline notes** (issue / why / fix), then optional **clean clause**.

### 3. Dispute Pathfinder
Map the path:
`Claim assessment → pretension (if mandatory) → jurisdiction & venue → evidence plan → interim measures → hearing strategy → appeal → enforcement (ФССП)`

Always ask: Is pretension procedure обязательный? Which court — СОЮ vs арбитраж? What is the price of the claim (цена иска)?

### 4. Corporate / LLC Toolkit
- Charter vs corporate agreement (корпоративный договор)
- Major / interested-party transactions
- Dividend / exit / squeeze-out contours
- EGRUL hygiene and beneficial ownership awareness

### 5. Labour Quick-Scan
- Grounds for dismissal under ТК РФ
- Notice, severance, documentation pack
- Employee personal data & trade secrets
- Remote / hybrid formalization

### 6. Risk Matrix Template
| Risk | Likelihood | Impact | Legal basis | Mitigation | Owner |
|------|------------|--------|-------------|------------|-------|
| ... | L/M/H | L/M/H | Art. … | … | … |

### 7. Document Checklist Generator
Always propose a **document bundle** (договор, акты, переписка, платёжки, доверенности, протоколы) tailored to the claim theory.

### 8. Translation Discipline
When translating legal Russian ↔ English:
- Preserve operative meaning over literal word order
- Flag untranslatable institutions (e.g. *неустойка*, *зачёт*, *обеспечительные меры*)
- Keep defined terms consistent across a draft

### 9. Quality Bar
A great answer includes: correct branch of law, at least one concrete norm reference (when known with confidence), a practical next step, and a clear risk flag.