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name: feed-blog-rss
description: Use when the platform needs to surface a personalized blog and content RSS feed for a Louis user. Aggregates legal blog posts, thought-leadership articles, and practice-relevant content from selected MENA and global legal publishers, filtered by user role, practice area, and jurisdiction preferences. Pairs with churn-risk signals to prioritize re-engagement content.
license: MIT
metadata:
id: feed.blog-RSS
category: feed
jurisdictions: [multi]
priority: P3
intent: [feed, content-aggregation, personalization, re-engagement]
related: [feed-legal-news-mena, feed-case-law-new-publications, ops-churn-risk-detector, feed-changelog-watcher]
source: Louis — HAQQ Legal AI (github.com/sboghossian/mini-claude-for-legal)
version: "1.0"

Blog RSS Feed Surface

Purpose

The blog RSS surface delivers curated long-form legal content — articles, commentaries, practice guides, and law-firm client alerts — to users within the Louis feed panel. The goal is to keep legal professionals informed about developments in their practice area without requiring them to maintain their own RSS subscriptions.

This surface is awareness-oriented, not action-oriented. It does not surface deadlines or matter notifications (those belong to the gazettes and regulator-bulletins feeds). It surfaces thinking material: new court commentary, law firm alerts on regulatory change, academic short-pieces, and how-to guides relevant to the user's jurisdiction and practice.

Inputs / signals

Signal	Source	Usage
user.practice_area	User profile	Filters feed categories
user.jurisdictions	User profile	Filters by geographic relevance
user.role	User profile (lawyer, in-house, consumer)	Adjusts content register and depth
churn_risk_score	[[ops-churn-risk-detector]]	High-risk users get more engaging/re-activation content
matter_context	Active matters	Surfaces articles contextually matching open matters
explicit_feed_prefs	User feed settings	Hard include/exclude for specific publishers

Feed sources

Categorized by type and jurisdiction coverage:

MENA-focused publishers

• Al Tamimi & Company client alerts (UAE, KSA, DIFC/ADGM)
• Hadef & Partners publications (UAE)
• BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem client alerts (UAE)
• Badri and Salim El Meouchi (LB)
• Azhari Law Firm (LB)
• ACWA and regional regulatory commentary (KSA, Gulf)
• Lexology MENA filter
• Mondaq MENA legal filter

International / cross-border

• Thomson Reuters Legal (Westlaw feeds — where API licensed)
• Lexology global
• Law360 international
• Practical Law client alerts (UK, EU)
• Harvard Law Today (general)

Free/open legal blogs

• Conflicts of Laws .net (private international law — relevant for cross-border MENA)
• Oxford Business Law Blog (commercial law, M&A)
• Open legal commentary from government-affiliated law schools in MENA region

Personalization logic

1. Base pool: pull all items published in the past 7 days from subscribed feeds.
2. Jurisdiction filter: retain only items tagged or inferred to match the user's active jurisdiction(s). Cross-jurisdictional content (e.g., "GCC-wide" or "OHADA") is included if user has any matching jurisdiction.
3. Practice-area score: weight items by cosine similarity between article metadata/keywords and user's primary practice area.
4. Role register filter: for consumer role, exclude pure technical bar-association commentary; for lawyer role, de-prioritize lay-explanation articles.
5. Churn-risk boost: if churn_risk_score > 0.7, prioritize high-engagement titles (shorter reads, practical how-to framing) over deep commentary.
6. Recency decay: items older than 14 days receive a freshness penalty.
7. Deduplication: collapse near-identical articles from multiple syndicating publishers.

Output spec

Each feed item rendered in the UI:

{
  "id": "feed-item-uuid",
  "source_feed": "al-tamimi-alerts",
  "title": "UAE Amends Commercial Companies Law: Key Changes for 2025",
  "summary": "...", // 2-3 sentence AI-generated summary
  "url": "https://...",
  "published_at": "2025-05-12T08:00:00Z",
  "jurisdictions": ["UAE", "DIFC"],
  "practice_areas": ["corporate", "commercial"],
  "read_time_minutes": 5,
  "relevance_score": 0.87,
  "is_bookmarked": false
}

Quality bar

• Items must be from recognized legal or law-firm publishers — no news aggregators without legal editorial oversight.
• AI-generated summaries must accurately represent the article; do not editorialize or reinterpret legal positions.
• Never surface items that contain a specific legal claim unless that claim is attributable to the original publisher.

Failure modes

• Feed source goes offline: cache last 30 days of items; surface a "publisher unavailable" label; don't show stale items beyond 30 days without a freshness flag.
• Over-personalization: if the filtered result set is < 3 items, widen jurisdiction filter to region level (e.g., GCC instead of UAE-only).
• Publisher paywall: surface the item with a paywall indicator; do not attempt to fetch or summarize paywalled content beyond the lede.

Related skills

• [[feed-legal-news-mena]]
• [[feed-case-law-new-publications]]
• [[feed-regulator-bulletins-mena]]
• [[ops-churn-risk-detector]]
• [[feed-changelog-watcher]]