# Identifying Legal Issues from Fact Patterns
Issue spotting — identifying the legal questions raised by a set of facts — is the foundational skill in legal analysis. AI can dramatically accelerate this process, but only with structured prompting.
The Issue Extraction Prompt
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What you'll learn:
- Extract legal issues from unstructured fact patterns using AI
- Distinguish between primary issues and sub-issues
- Identify both obvious and hidden legal risks in a scenario