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# Demand Letter Drafter
> Pre-litigation demand letter with statutory prerequisites, a dollar demand, a compliance deadline, and FRE 408 protection
**Best for:** a pre-litigation demand letter with the statutory prerequisites, a dollar demand, a deadline, and an FRE 408 caption baked in.
Produces a formal demand from counsel: notice of claim, statement of facts, legal basis, specific demand, compliance deadline, and reservation of rights.
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| Category | Litigation |
| Jurisdiction | US |
| Practice areas | Litigation, dispute resolution, commercial, consumer protection, IP, employment, defamation |
| Runtime | 5-12 minutes |
## What you need
| Slot | Required | Count | What goes in it |
| ------------------------------------------ | -------- | ----- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Correspondence / contractual reference** | No | 0-500 | Prior emails, the underlying contract, the publication at issue, or anything else the letter should cite. |
## Inputs
### Claim and governing law
| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
| ---------------------------- | ------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Matter name | Text | No | Internal file reference and DOCX file name. Not printed on the letter. |
| **Claim type** | Select | **Yes** | Breach of contract, payment/collection, trademark, copyright, DMCA precursor, defamation/retraction, trade secret or restrictive covenant, employment, consumer/FDCPA/FCRA, other tort. Drives the template and the statutory prerequisites: FDCPA § 1692g, UCC 2-607 notice of breach, state retraction statutes. |
| **Governing law / state** | Select | **Yes** | Drives retraction-statute prerequisites (California 20 days, Texas 90 days, Florida 5 days), the limitations period, and jury-waiver enforceability. |
| Date of incident / discovery | Date | No | Drives limitations warnings and the defamation retraction-window calculation. |
### Sender
| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
| -------------------------- | ---------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Sender name** | Party name | **Yes** | The signer. Include "Esq." or "Attorney for Plaintiff" if you are counsel of record. |
| Sender firm / company | Text | No | Drives the letterhead block. |
| Sender state bar admission | Text | No | Including your bar number under the signature is a professional norm and matters for unauthorized-practice exposure in multi-state demands. |
| Sender address | Long text | No | Letterhead and return address. |
### Recipient
| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
| ---------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Recipient name** | Party name | **Yes** | The party receiving the demand. |
| Recipient address | Long text | No | Use the registered agent or principal place of business for entities. Matters if proof of service is later contested. |
| Is the recipient represented by counsel? | Yes/No | No | **ABA Rule 4.2 prohibits direct contact with a represented party once known.** Yes routes the letter through counsel. |
| Recipient counsel name | Text | No | Triggers Rule 4.2 routing so the demand is addressed to counsel, not the party. |
| Recipient counsel email | Text | No | Used to cc counsel and for electronic-service follow-up. |
### Demand
| Field | Type | Required | Notes |
| ------------------------------- | --------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Factual background** | Long text | **Yes** | Plain facts only. The drafter will not invent anything beyond this. |
| Damages claimed / calculation | Long text | No | A specific dollar amount or itemized damages. A demand without a number is unusable as a Rule 68 baseline. |
| **Relief / remedy sought** | Long text | **Yes** | The specific "or else". Distinct from damages: this is the action you want taken, not just the amount owed. |
| If the dispute escalates, forum | Select | No | Court litigation, arbitration per contract, mediation first, or per the forum-selection clause. Drives the reservation-of-rights paragraph and any FAA or mediation-first carve-outs. |
| Compliance deadline (days) | Select | No | 7, 14, 21, 30, or 60 days from receipt. Defaults to 30. |
| Tone | Select | No | Collaborative · firm · final warning. ABA Rule 4.4 limits scorched-earth rhetoric. Defaults to firm. |
## How it runs
A drafting pipeline: `prepare → generate → export`. Prepare gathers context from the reference documents and your answers, generate produces the letter against the claim type and governing state, and export writes the DOCX.
## What you get
| Artifact | Format | Contents |
| ----------------- | ------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Demand Letter** | DOCX | The full letter with statutory basis, demand, deadline, and reservation of rights. |
## What this will not do
* Send the letter or arrange certified-mail service.
* Replace counsel for the final review, attorney signature, and bar-rules sign-off.
* Run an independent damages calculation or verify prejudgment-interest math.
* Investigate facts beyond what you provide, such as the counterparty's financial condition or an asset search.
* Calculate or apply the statute of limitations. Verify timeliness with counsel.
## Related
When the ask is "stop doing this" rather than "pay this".
The next step when the demand is ignored.