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A short description of the problem is enough to start — please hold back anything privileged or confidential
What to include in a first message
A short message is enough to begin, and the more of the following it carries, the faster I can tell you whether there is anything here worth doing:
- the addresses of the content, or a plain description of where it appears;
- roughly when it appeared, and when the business first noticed it;
- anything already sent to anyone — a report, a reply, a letter — and what came back;
- whether an attorney is already involved;
- what a good outcome would look like from where you are sitting.
If the content is live and nothing has been captured yet, capture it before you write. A full-page copy with the address visible in the same frame, taken today, is worth more than anything either of us can do about it next month.
What not to send yet
Please do not attach privileged material, confidential documents, case files or anything a court has restricted. A conflict check comes first, and until it is done I would rather know the parties in general terms than hold material I should not have. Email is not a secure channel in any event.
Two things to be clear about before you write. I am not an attorney, so nothing that comes back is legal advice, and whether a statement is legally defamatory is a question for a defamation attorney. And sending a message, or receiving a reply to one, does not create an engagement — that only happens in writing, after the conflict check, when both of us have agreed what the work is.
What happens next
I read what you send and reply with a straight answer about whether there is something worth pursuing. In a fair number of cases that answer is no, and it arrives as a short note explaining why rather than as a proposal. Where there is something to do, the reply sets out what I would look at first and in what order, so you can decide with the facts in front of you.
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