“The Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated”: Reading and Writing Objective Legal Memoranda in a Mobile Computing Age
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Davis, Kirsten K.
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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.
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54 pages
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Legal memos, Mobile device, Legal communication
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471 Or.L. Rev. (2013)