# Demand letter drafter
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Drafts demand letters and cease and desist letters for common dispute types including breach of contract (UCC and common law), personal injury, employment…

Drafts demand letters and cease and desist letters for common dispute types including breach of contract (UCC and common law), personal injury, employment disputes (wrongful termination, wage theft, FLSA violations, discrimination), consumer protection violations (CLRA, state UDAP, ACL), intellectual property infringement (trademark, copyright, patent cease and desist), debt collection (FDCPA and Regulation F compliant), property damage, and professional malpractice. Covers proper party identification, factual narrative development, legal basis articulation with specific statutory references, damages calculation and demand amount, response deadlines, consequences of non-compliance, and settlement offer frameworks. Enforces compliance with professional conduct rules on threatening criminal prosecution (California Rule 3.10 and analogues), FDCPA validation notice requirements, UK Pre-Action Protocol obligations, and Australian ACL and unjustified threats statutes. Also drafts pre-litigation preservation notices and statutory cure demands. Supports US (federal + all states), England & Wales (PAP-compliant Letters Before Action), and Australia (ACL-compliant demand letters) jurisdictions. Use when drafting any pre-suit demand, cease and desist, or statutory notice before commencing civil litigation.

This skill drafts demand letters, cease and desist letters, cure demands, statutory pre-suit notices, and pre-litigation preservation notices by systematically mapping client facts to the legal basis for each claim, structuring a persuasive narrative, calculating and articulating damages, proposing a settlement offer framework, and formatting the document for professional delivery. The skill operates in three primary modes: 1. **Full Draft Mode**: Generates a complete, professionally formatted demand letter from client facts, instructions, and legal analysis — including proper party identification, factual narrative, legal basis with citations, damages calculation, settlement offer, response deadline, and reservation of rights. 2. **Validation Mode**: Reviews an existing draft demand letter for ethical compliance (professional conduct rules), statutory compliance (FDCPA, UK PAP, ACL), legal accuracy (elements established, damages defensible), and structural completeness (all required elements present). 3. **Pre-Litigation Package Mode**: Drafts the demand letter AND a companion preservation notice, jurisdiction and pre-suit checklist, and settlement framework memo for counsel. **Covers:** - **All major dispute types**: Breach of contract, personal injury, employment, consumer protection, IP infringement, debt collection, property damage, and professional malpractice - **Letter types**: General demand, cease and desist, cure demand, statutory demand, FDCPA-compliant validation notice, pre-litigation preservation notice - **Ethical gates**: Professional conduct compliance ...

## Jurisdictions

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