title: Litigation
description: Which first-party skills declare Litigation in their frontmatter, and what "covered" actually means for it.
url: https://legalquants.github.io/lq-ai/skills/coverage/practice-area/litigation/
checked-against: 671eab0d (2026-10-25)
status: draft
kind: explanation
sources: docs/site/skills/coverage.intro.md, skills, docs/site/_data/coverage-notes.yaml

1 first-party skill carries this practice area in its frontmatter.

| Skill | Jurisdiction | Tags | Attested by |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Case-Law Research](https://github.com/LegalQuants/lq-ai/blob/671eab0d/skills/case-law-research/SKILL.md) | us | `research` `case-law` `litigation` `citations` `courtlistener` | attestation not recorded in frontmatter |

## Scope note

Out of scope beyond case-law research and drafting support. PRD §1.6 excludes "e-discovery or litigation-specific workflows" outright, scoping the project to in-house work: contracts, policies, regulatory matters, advice. docs/skill-authoring-guide.md's tag conventions list `litigation` as "(rarely; out of scope for v1)". The case-law-research skill carries this tag, but its own "What this skill does not do" section bounds it — it will not research non-U.S. jurisdictions, search statutory or regulatory text, apply retrieved authority to the user's facts, or assert that a case is still good law — so this is case-law lookup and citation provenance for research and drafting, not a broader litigation capability.

Checked against:

- [`docs/PRD.md#16-out-of-scope-v1`](https://github.com/LegalQuants/lq-ai/blob/671eab0d/docs/PRD.md#16-out-of-scope-v1)
- [`skills/case-law-research/SKILL.md`](https://github.com/LegalQuants/lq-ai/blob/671eab0d/skills/case-law-research/SKILL.md)

## Contributing coverage here

Coverage for a jurisdiction or practice area is contributed, not requested. The route — and what to do when the area is one the PRD excludes outright — is on the [coverage index](/lq-ai/skills/coverage/#contributing-coverage), with the canonical files it traces to.

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