Practice Demand Draft

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name: practice-demand-draft
description: Draft sourced demands, breach or cure notices, cease-and-desist and preservation letters through a decision gate, then use existing correspondence production and review.
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# Demand Drafting

This is a manually loaded workflow instruction module, not an additional setup
module key or native installed skill. Read
[scope and authority](../../workflows/scope-and-authority.md),
[source verification](../../workflows/source-verification.md) and
[dates](../../workflows/dates.md).

## Resolve the obligation and requested result

Use the installed matter workflow to resolve the exact matter and retrieve the
controlling agreement, order, correspondence or other source. Establish the
client, intended recipient, obligation/right relied on, alleged default, remedy,
current posture and requested result. Use current correspondence when it could
change the position, amount, audience or proposed demand; use only the bounded,
actually available intake route. Disclose inaccessible or partial sources.

Do not draft a demand that depends on an unresolved client side, controlling
obligation, material fact or authority. Narrow independent work where possible
and put the material decision to the lawyer.

## Decide the consequences before writing

From sources and instructions, identify and report:

- admissions or concessions the letter would make and their practical effect;
- whether wording could accept a proposal, release or settle another claim,
  waive a right, or create an unintended accord-and-satisfaction position;
- whether the substance is a settlement communication, and any applicable
  privilege or reservation wording supported by current law;
- internal analysis, settlement limits or sensitive facts that need not be
  disclosed to achieve the requested result;
- tone and consequences supported by the history and actual available options;
- the notice mechanism, recipient and authority needed for the intended effect.

A label alone does not establish settlement privilege or preserve a right. A
reservation clause does not undo a substantive concession. Ask about material
choices that lack an established instruction; avoid overstating the effect of
protective wording.

## Draft by demand type

Use plain prose anchored to specific events and provisions.

- **Payment:** parties and obligation, source and default, supported amount and
  calculation, payment request and method, proposed window, consequences and
  any appropriate reservation.
- **Breach/cure:** controlling agreement and notice provision, obligation,
  dated breach evidence, required cure, controlling interval/mechanism and
  supported consequences.
- **Cease-and-desist:** right relied on, identified conduct, requested stop/removal
  and confirmation, proposed interval, consequences and relevant preservation.
- **Preservation:** anticipated dispute, proportionate categories, custodians
  and date range, relevant deletion practices, requested preservation and
  acknowledgment. Source any legal consequence before asserting it.

Trace each fact, amount, date and quotation to a source. Distinguish allegations
from established events. Omit unsupported assertions and put open matters in the
lawyer-facing report, not as placeholders in recipient text. A contractual cure
date comes from the controlling clause and verified trigger. Explain the interval,
anchor and resulting date for any proposed strategic response window; do not
promote it to a binding legal deadline.

## Review, produce and complete

Apply the installed review workflow before presenting the complete draft when
the content engages its required review. Supply controlling sources, current
audience, execution/transmission state and the decision gate above. Disposition
material findings; a missing source or unresolved material issue prevents a
ready label. Read [client advice](../../workflows/client-advice.md) if the
task includes client advice, retainer changes or wording for onward use.

For a formal letter, use the installed correspondence workflow for template,
lint, whole-document checks, rendering and guarded save. If that production
capability is unavailable, provide the supported text and disclose that no
verified DOCX was produced; do not improvise an equivalent tool. For a requested
email, deliver the complete reviewed email inline. Neither output authorizes a
mailbox draft, sending, filing, service or signature.

Read [records and handoffs](../../workflows/records-and-handoffs.md).
Report the requested artifact/version, verification and review performed,
judgment choices and their sources, proposed interval and coverage limits.
Record changes, timeline notes and calendar proposals use existing workflows
only after exact current approval. Saving an internal draft does not establish
that notice was delivered or that any period has started.