joelakaufmann-lgtm narrows Mike down to Nevada

This fork retargets the legal assistant from generic US law to a single state - Nevada - baked into how the AI thinks by default.

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joelakaufmann-lgtm has rewritten the instructions that govern how Mike's assistant answers, telling it to act as a tool for Nevada-licensed attorneys rather than a general-purpose legal AI. The change layers in a set of default assumptions: Nevada statutes and regulations as the starting authority, the state's court hierarchy and procedural rules, its professional-conduct rules, and a Nevada-flavored citation style. It also tells the assistant to treat the Ninth Circuit and the federal District of Nevada as the controlling federal courts.

The upside is an assistant that speaks like a local practitioner without being told the jurisdiction every time. The trade-off: Nevada is hardwired in, so anyone outside the state could get answers quietly skewed toward Nevada law unless they notice.

So what Worth a look for any firm or legal-product team weighing whether to specialize a general legal AI for one jurisdiction - this is a clean, if blunt, template for doing it.

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3699de3f Update SYSTEM_PROMPT for Nevada law specialization Joel A. Kaufmann 2026-05-21 ↗ GitHub

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