I am delighted with Michael Hwang (the Senior Counsel)’s lecture to law students on how not to draft legal correspondence!“It is unnecessary in either contentious or non-contentious correspondence to adopt any kind of aggressive style. The only time you engage in emotionalism is when you are looking ahead. You know the situation will develop into litigation. You want to get your client’s case on record. You want to convey some of the anguish that your client feels or the moral delinquecy of the other party; and more importantly you want this to be seen by the judge. Then you start to write in a certain amount of provocation. There are some people who write ordinary conveyancing letters like that, but those are usually frustrated litigation lawyers.”
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