Explain Why It Is Important To Your Audience And Understand Your Purpose When Drafting A Legal Document

1. Explain why it is important to correctly gauge your audience and understand your purpose when drafting a legal document. How can you tailor your writing to take different audiences in to account?
It is very important to correctly gauge your audience and understand your purpose when drafting a legal document so there will be no miscommunication. [1] The legal profession is primarily a communications profession and its writings must be highly organized and structured. [2] The communications are particularly crucial but helps ensure that complex subject matter is clearly communicated. [3] This is done by fully addressing the topic in as few words as possible and allowing the reader to gain a clear understanding of the information in as little time as possible. [4] The writings should be tailored to identify the intended audience to meet then their needs. [5] When writing to a judge or an attorney legal terms and concepts may be used. When address a client or some other person legal terms and concepts shouldn’t be used because they probably wouldn’t understand the legal jargon. [6]

Is an internal office memorandum supposed to be a piece of persuasive writing or not? If not, why not? If not, what should be the tone of the internal office memorandum?
The internal office memorandum is not a persuasive writing, it is an informative document. [7] It provides an objective, critical analysis of a legal problem including the arguments in favor of and in opposition to the client’s position. [8] Because an internal office memorandum is designed for office use only the legal terminology is an appropriate tone.