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Does the Internet Improve the Tone of Legal Correspondence?
Posted by Ernest Miller on Thursday, May 09 @ 19:00:01 EDT Legal Technology
Denise Howell of Bag and Baggage raises an interesting point (Public Disputes):
Litigants and would-be litigants swap correspondence [Cease and Desist Letter & Response] like this all the time, but usually the only people paying attention are the parties, their attorneys and maybe ultimately a court. When attorneys begin to realize that, thanks to the Internet, their dispute-related correspondence may have a broader audience than they thought - even for writings that, unlike legal pleadings, are not part of the public record - this could have a dramatic, and positive, effect on the tenor and content of those missives.
I would like to agree with Denise, but I'm not sure that this will always be the case. I do believe that the letters will be written with the foreknowledge that the letters will have a wide audience, but this will not necessarily improve the tenor and content of the missives. More likely, the letters will themselves become elements of spin. [Note to self: start CLE course on legal writing with the blogosphere in mind] After all, there is only so much tenor to be improved in a "Cease & Desist" letter.
 
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