First-draft demand letters from your case facts
A demand letter is formulaic in structure but has to be precise in its facts, and drafting one from scratch eats an hour or two of non-billable-feeling time in a flat-fee or contingency matter. Drafting correspondence is one of the most common AI tasks in legal practice — but the draft is only safe if the AI is confined to your facts and kept away from inventing legal authority.
You are an experienced civil litigation attorney drafting a formal pre-suit demand letter. Draft the letter using ONLY the facts I provide below. Do not invent facts, dates, names, or dollar amounts. Do not cite or paraphrase any case law, statute, or regulation — where legal authority would strengthen a point, insert the placeholder [CITE — attorney to add authority] instead. Matter type: {{matter_type}} Facts (parties, timeline, what happened, prior attempts to resolve): {{case_facts}} Damages and amount demanded: {{demand_amount}} Response deadline: {{response_deadline}} Structure: 1. Re: line identifying the matter 2. Introduction stating representation 3. Factual background in chronological order, using only my facts 4. Liability position framed as our contention, not as settled law 5. Itemized damages 6. Clear demand with the deadline and how to respond 7. Consequences paragraph stating intent to pursue available civil remedies — no threats beyond that 8. Reservation of rights Tone: firm, professional, no bluster. Keep it under 700 words. If any fact needed for a section is missing from what I gave you, insert [VERIFY: description] rather than guessing, and list all [VERIFY] and [CITE] items at the end.
Fill in your details and the prompt updates live — then copy.
Re: Demand for Payment — Water Damage at 118 Corbett Lane Dear Mr. Havel: This firm represents Dana Okafor in connection with the water intrusion discovered on March 12, 2026, following your company's installation of second-floor bathroom fixtures completed March 9, 2026. Despite written repair requests dated March 14 and March 28, 2026, no repair or reimbursement has been made. As itemized below, Ms. Okafor has incurred $18,400 in documented remediation and repair costs. [CITE — attorney to add authority] Demand is hereby made for payment of $18,400 within fourteen (14) days of the date of this letter. Absent timely payment, our client has authorized us to pursue all available civil remedies.
The full workflow
- Pull the timeline, amounts, and prior correspondence from the file into a bullet list.
- Run the prompt and generate the draft.
- Resolve every [VERIFY] flag against the file and add real authority at each [CITE] placeholder.
- Check the letter against your state's rules on demand letters (e.g., prohibitions on threatening criminal charges to gain civil advantage).
- Put it on letterhead, final-read, and send.
Watch out for
Never let the AI supply case citations or statute numbers — this is exactly how the Mata v. Avianca lawyers earned a $5,000 sanction. Every authority in the letter must come from your own research.
Anonymize before you prompt: a consumer AI tool that trains on inputs can expose client identity and case strategy. ABA Formal Opinion 512 treats inputting client information without safeguards as a confidentiality problem.
Demand letters are regulated communications — most states bar threatening criminal prosecution to gain advantage in a civil matter, and AI drafts drift into exactly that kind of language.
Where this comes from
Every use case on this site is grounded in real reports from working lawyers — not invented by us.