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    Legal Demand Letters: A+ Guides to Writing, #10
    Legal Demand Letters: A+ Guides to Writing, #10
    Legal Demand Letters: A+ Guides to Writing, #10
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    Legal Demand Letters: A+ Guides to Writing, #10

    By Alison Plus

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    You must write a demand letter regarding a legal problem, either for school, for use in legal practice, or as a private citizen preparing for a possible small claims court filing. This booklet can help you by showing you the complete process of writing demand letter. This practical, systematic method will start with a basic discussion of the purpose of the letter and end with a final proofreading. In between that first and last step, you will learn how to write each piece of demand letter, piece by piece, in the order in which they should appear. These breakdowns show you exactly what to include in different places within the letter. You will no longer need to guess what to write and where to write it. By using the breakdown, the various pieces of the document will work together to create a coherent and complete letter.

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    How to Use This Booklet

    The Example Scenario

    Step One: Letter Mechanics

    A Special Note About Tone

    Step Two: Define the Relationship

    Step Three: State the Facts Giving Rise to the Claim

    Step Four: Present Any Necessary Law

    Step Five: Present the Demand

    Step Six: Close With a Deadline

    Example Demand Letter

    Step Seven: The Final Check

    The First Layer: Revising Out Loud

    The Second Layer: Sentence Triage

    The Third Layer: “Find” Searches

    The Fourth Layer: The Fine Points

    Appendix: Legal Citation Tips

    Cases

    Statutes and Regulations

    Constitutions

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFour-Ply Publishing
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781540164896
    Legal Demand Letters: A+ Guides to Writing, #10

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      Praise for A+ Writing Guides

      The grid made a big job seem really manageable.

      Thank you for the guidance. I have made a breakthrough!

      Awesome!

      I am currently writing the literature review chapter of my dissertation and this book has been and is very helpful during my writing.

      This book saved my bacon. I had a week to write a lit review paper for my PhD program and until I read the sample I didn't even know what a literature review paper was. The author does a great job in breaking it down into an easy to follow method. Everything from how to organize your paper to how to compose the topic sentence, body and conclusions for each paragraph. I'm almost done reading the book and feel so much more confident that I can do this. Just wish there was an audio companion. Already told all my classmates about the book. Thanks Alison!

      Wow! I have only read a few of the sections in this text and have already found it significantly more helpful than any other book I have purchased so far. I was really struggling with structuring my literature review, but this text offers great insight on organizing the material and flowing between paragraphs. Definitely worth the $3.99.

      Legal Demand Letters

      By Alison Plus

      Copyright 2016 by Alison Plus

      Published by Four-Ply Publishing

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      How to Use This Booklet

      You must write a legal demand letter. Perhaps you are studying law and writing your first demand letter as part of a legal writing assignment. Perhaps you are a paralegal or new attorney writing a demand letter for use in a law firm or other legal setting. Or perhaps you are a private citizen who needs to send a demand letter before filing suit in small claims court.

      Even though you might have seen other letters, you are not sure how to compose a demand letter. Maybe you have never written a letter like this before, so you are unsure about how it differs from other kinds of letters. Maybe you have written a letter like this in the past, but you were unhappy with the product and you want to do better this time. Maybe, no matter your skills and experiences, you are just looking for extra help so that this kind of letter will be easier to complete.

      If you find it difficult to draft a demand letter, it is probably not your fault. Law schools and legal studies programs do not always teach this kind of writing, but they expect the students to figure it out independently through clerkships or similar means. Some might assign demand letters without giving sufficient instruction on how to write one. Even when there is instruction, writing instructors often focus on aspects of legal theory instead of on writing itself. Therefore, you might find it difficult to write a demand letter simply because the skills you have been taught, while important, are just one aspect of the writing process.

      For example, maybe your instructor spent some time

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