Create a SMART commitment for maintaining a legal research trail.
Maintain a five-column research log for the next legal research assignment. I will create a research log before my first search. For each meaningful search path, I will record: issue version, source or query, useful result, exclusion reason, and next step. I will update it at least every 25 minutes and before sending any answer, so the trail can be reviewed. We will check the concrete research behavior, not a vague intention. A new assignment with an unfamiliar statute or doctrine where search terms will evolve. A case-law scan where you expect to exclude many authorities by jurisdiction or fact…
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