Letters and opinions
Draft a legal memorandum on authority it actually found.
A legal memorandum is internal work product: it analyses a question for the lawyer’s own file. Because applying retrieved authority to the facts is the entire point, this is one of the formats that does search the library — and it carries no fixed governing authority, because the subject matter is whatever you asked about.
How to draft this
Four steps from a sentence to a Word file.
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Describe the document in one sentence
Type what you need in plain language — "draft a legal memorandum" plus the facts you already have. No template to hunt, no blank Word file to start from.
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Generate the first draft
BatasDB matches the request to a legal memorandum and writes it against the 5 required elements on this page, citing only authority retrieved from the library.
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Fill the marked blanks
Names, dates, amounts and other facts you did not supply come back as marked blanks, counted at the top of the draft. Rewrite freely in the editor.
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Export to Word or PDF
Export with the unfilled blanks highlighted. Editing, exporting and duplicating are free — only generating a new draft uses credits.
Drafted from
The authorities depend on the issue presented
This is the retrieval hint BatasDB searches the library with, and the anchor for the checklist below. It is never emitted into your draft as a citation: the draft may cite only what retrieval actually returned, plus any provision you named yourself.
The checklist
What a legal memorandum has to contain.
These are the elements BatasDB drafts against — injected into the generation itself, not checked afterwards. Where you have not supplied what an element needs, the draft leaves a marked blank instead of writing something plausible.
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The question presented
Stated before it is answered.
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A short answer
The conclusion first.
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The facts assumed
Flagged as assumptions where the client has not confirmed them.
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Discussion
Applying the retrieved authority to those facts — not reciting the law and then announcing a conclusion.
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Conclusion and next steps
What follows in practice, and what to do next.
Not written by the AI
The formal parts are assembled, not generated.
The scaffolding a legal memorandum needs is appended by the app from the rule that requires it. The drafting model does not write these and is explicitly told not to, so they cannot drift, be paraphrased, or come out subtly wrong.
- the complimentary close
- counsel’s signature block
What it leaves to you
The gaps are marked, not filled.
Facts you did not supply
Every name, date, amount, docket number and address you did not give comes out as a marked blank — [FACT NEEDED: …] — rather than as a plausible invention. They are counted at the top of the draft and highlighted in the Word and PDF exports.
Assertions it made on its own
A gate reads the drafted text for concrete assertions that trace back to nothing you said and nothing that was retrieved, and rewrites each as [CONFIRM: …] for you to check before you sign.
The judgment
Every draft carries a standing notice: AI-generated draft — review before filing or signing. Not legal advice. It is a first draft for a lawyer, not a filing-ready document.
FAQ
Legal Memorandum: questions lawyers ask.
- What is the difference between a legal memorandum and a legal opinion?
- A memorandum is internal work product analysing a question for your own file. An opinion is addressed and relied on — it names who may rely on it, states the facts it assumes, and qualifies itself as of a date. BatasDB keeps them as separate formats because those four elements (scope, assumptions, qualifications, reliance) are the whole difference, and a memo’s checklist produces none of them.
- Does the memorandum cite real cases?
- It cites only what BatasDB actually retrieved from our library for your question, plus any authority you named yourself. Anything it cannot ground comes back as [AUTHORITY NEEDED: …] rather than as a citation that merely looks right — which is the failure mode of asking a general chatbot for a memo.
- Can I ask for a memo on any area of law?
- Yes. This format deliberately carries no fixed governing authority — a fixed one would drag retrieval toward a single field of law on every memo regardless of what you asked. The grounding comes from your own question.
Start from a draft that already read the rule.
Describe your legal memorandum in a sentence, fill in what only you know, and export it to Word or PDF.
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