1. Workflow map
Provide a concise narrative for how counsel move from triage, to deep dive, to communication, to final acceptance and monitoring.
S5 — Counsel Work & Tools
This segment maps the counsel workflow against the tools and templates in the pack. It is the operational bridge between legal analysis and repeatable practice.
What this page does
- Outlines the Pre-Sign / At-Sign / Post-Sign workflow.
- Maps each step to specific tools (decision tree card, QA mini-deck, runbooks).
- Shows where RPE watchpoints and prudence trace entries plug in.
2. Tools & templates
- Decision tree card — quick triage for scenario and posture.
- QA mini-deck — structured questions and answers for internal briefings.
- Briefing kit talk track — scripted talking points for external counsel.
- Quote pack one-pager — curated quotes from key sources.
- Pins map — navigation across sources and artifacts.
- Prudence trace — narrative record of key prudence decisions.
3. Example path: FM1 professional advice
When you want a concrete example of how these tools fit together, use the FM1 professional-advice reliance scenario. Start from the decision tree card to confirm that FM1 is in scope, use the QA mini-deck to structure fact-finding, and rely on the quote pack and pins map to pull the right RSP and usage-policy excerpts into your notes.
The FM1 deep-dive on the Foreseeable Misuse counsel work page shows the end-to-end flow: from workflow characterisation, to comparing disclosures with reality, to tuning mitigations and disclaimers, and finally to recording the agreed posture in the FM acceptance table and S6 matrix.
Example workflow: putting the tools in motion
To make the tools feel concrete, imagine that a new scenario has been proposed that looks similar to FM1 but in a different sector. Counsel wants to know how to move from a high-level description to a recorded posture with clear follow-ups.
- Start with the decision tree card. The decision tree helps identify which scenario family you are in and whether you are closer to a known FM pattern or something genuinely new. The goal is to place the matter in a box, not to decide the answer on the first pass.
- Use the QA mini-deck to probe assumptions. The QA deck surfaces questions about users, context of use, safeguards, and monitoring. In practice, this often reveals that a matter is safer (or riskier) than it first appeared.
- Shape the narrative with the talk track and quote pack. Once there is a provisional posture, the talk track and quote pack give counsel a consistent way to describe the decision and point business stakeholders to supporting sources.
- Record the outcome in S6 and FM/Penumbral tables. Finally, the acceptance tables are updated so that future reviewers can see how similar matters were handled and what conditions were attached.
This is not the only way to use the tools, but it illustrates the intended motion: triage with the decision tree, deepen understanding with structured questions, then formalise and communicate the result in a way that can be revisited later.