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Governance, Legal & PeopleSimulated project
Web3 Legal / Compliance portfolio brief
A simulated governance, legal & people exercise for Web3 Legal / Compliance. Treat it as realistic practice, not real client or protocol work.
8 deliverables6 tools referenced3 linked interview questions
Objective
Choose a specific jurisdiction and issue area
Expected deliverables
Legal memoRisk assessmentPolicyControl matrixContract markupLaunch reviewDisclosureRegulatory update
Recommended workflow
- Choose a specific jurisdiction and issue area
- Study current primary rules and enforcement
- Build a sample risk assessment and control workflow without claiming legal authority you do not have
- Review the result against the rubric, then package it as a case study.
Constraints and safety
- Use only public sources or clearly simulated data.
- Never include seed phrases, private keys, or wallet secrets.
- Redact private user, company, security, legal, or compensation information.
- State every assumption you make.
Tools in practice
- Legal research platforms
- Research statutes, regulations, cases, guidance, and jurisdictional updates while preserving citations and effective dates.
- contract workflow
- Manage review, approval, rights, disclosure, and signature status without treating an operational tracker as legal advice.
- case management
- Track legal or compliance questions, facts, jurisdictions, owners, deadlines, privilege, and resolution status.
- compliance tools
- Support screening, case review, monitoring, policy evidence, and audit trails under the organisation's approved control framework.
- Notion
- Draft, review, and maintain legal memo and risk assessment, with owners, source links, and change history.
- risk registers
- Record the risk, affected product or jurisdiction, likelihood, impact, mitigation, owner, and review date.
What a strong submission shows
- A redacted legal or compliance memo
- A control matrix
- A policy-to-workflow example
- A product review showing alternatives rather than only prohibition
Weak submission patterns
- Generic disclaimers presented as legal work
- Confident cross-border conclusions with no jurisdiction
- Policies copied from another business model
Review rubric
- Accuracy of claims and sources
- Relevance to the target role
- Decision quality and trade-offs
- Completeness of the deliverable
- Clarity of communication
- Honest limitations and next steps
Present it as a case study
- Explain the problem, sources, decisions, ownership, constraints, output, review, and what you would change.
- Show the final artifact before the process notes.
- State what you owned and what belonged to other people.
- Label the work as simulated, and keep any real contribution clearly separate.
Interview questions this project helps you answer
How would you advise on a product when the regulatory classification is uncertain?
What makes a compliance control operational rather than decorative?
How do you communicate legal risk without taking over the business decision?