“The Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated”: Reading and Writing Objective Legal Memoranda in a Mobile Computing Age
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Date
2014-03-15
Authors
Davis, Kirsten K.
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Publisher
University of Oregon School of Law
Abstract
Seventy years ago, carefully written objective legal memos — internal memoranda written by one lawyer to another for the purpose of communicating law and legal analysis and meant to serve as the basis for legal advice — were viewed as a critical part of practice. In today’s legal practice culture of on-screen reading and writing, lawyers complain memos are expensive, time consuming, and perhaps even ill-suited for reading on screens and mobile devices.
Description
54 pages
Keywords
Legal memos, Mobile device, Legal communication
Citation
471 Or.L. Rev. (2013)