demand-intake

Pre-drafting intake for a demand letter involves gathering structured inputs including parties, triggering facts, legal basis, outcomes, deadlines, and prior outreach. It also captures posture-specific inputs, leverage, BATNA, and privilege filters.

Legal intake for cease-and-desist, breach/cure, payment, employment separation, or preservation demands collects posture-specific inputs into a structured file. This file captures materiality-driven strategy, settlement-communication posture, and admission-risk checks for downstream drafting.

A privilege filter in demand letter preparation explicitly identifies what must not appear in the letter and flags settlement-communication risks. It runs during the strategic intake block when materiality matters or when full intake is requested.

Structured intake applies to payment, breach/cure, cease-and-desist, employment separation, and preservation scenarios. Each scenario relies on posture-specific inputs with optional materiality-driven strategy, producing a file that downstream drafting reads.

The best way to record case posture and BATNA is through a structured intake process that explicitly captures leverage, settlement protections, privilege exclusions, and admission risk. This produces an intake file that downstream drafting relies on.

Demand letter drafting fails without structured intake because attorneys skip capturing parties, facts, legal basis, leverage, BATNA, privilege, and deadlines. Missing these inputs leads to unrecorded posture, unfiltered privileged content, and unchecked admission or accord-and-satisfaction risks.