joelakaufmann-lgtm makes Mike a Nevada lawyer

This fork stops being a generic legal assistant and starts answering like it passed the Nevada bar.

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joelakaufmann-lgtm rewrote the instructions that shape how Mike's chat assistant thinks, pinning it to Nevada law. Instead of a general-purpose helper for "lawyers and legal professionals," it now introduces itself as built for Nevada-licensed attorneys and their teams, and it carries a set of default assumptions to match: Nevada statutes and administrative code as the starting authority, the state's court hierarchy, its civil, appellate, and professional-conduct rules, and citation formatting that follows Nevada conventions. For federal questions, it defaults to the Ninth Circuit and the federal court that covers Nevada.

The trade-off is baked in. Every user on this instance gets the Nevada framing, and there's no per-user switch - a lawyer working a California or New York matter would have to correct it by hand. But for a Nevada-only practice, that's the point: the assistant stops hedging across fifty states and answers like it knows where it lives.

So what Worth a look for any firm or legal-ops team that practices in one state and wants an assistant tuned to it rather than a national average.

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

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