“The Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated”: Reading and Writing Objective Legal Memoranda in a Mobile Computing Age
| dc.contributor.author | Davis, Kirsten K. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-11T20:48:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-04-11T20:48:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-03-15 | |
| dc.description | 54 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | 471 Or.L. Rev. (2013) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0196-2043 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/16081 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon School of Law | en_US |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Legal memos | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mobile device | en_US |
| dc.subject | Legal communication | en_US |
| dc.title | “The Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated”: Reading and Writing Objective Legal Memoranda in a Mobile Computing Age | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |