Generate client advisory letters
AI writes complete legal opinion letters from your topic and advice. Get professional client communications ready for review.
Generate client advisory letters
River's Client Advisory Letter Generator creates complete legal opinion letters for client communications. You provide the legal topic, your analysis, and recommended course of action. The AI writes a professional advisory letter explaining the issue, analyzing options, providing clear recommendations, and outlining next steps. Within minutes, you have a client-ready letter that documents your advice. Perfect for solo attorneys, small firms, and practitioners who need to communicate legal advice professionally and efficiently.
Unlike informal emails, formal advisory letters create clear records of legal advice, explain complex legal concepts in client-friendly language, memorialize attorney-client communications, and protect against misunderstanding or malpractice claims. The AI structures letters with issue identification, legal background, analysis of options, clear recommendations, action items, and appropriate disclaimers. You get letters that demonstrate competence, document advice thoroughly, and communicate recommendations effectively.
This tool is perfect for solo attorneys advising clients, small firms handling routine advisory matters, corporate counsel providing guidance to business units, and practitioners needing professional client communications. Use it when you need to formalize legal advice in writing. Use it to document recommendations for client files. Great for explaining complex legal issues in accessible language while maintaining professional tone. The AI creates foundation documents attorneys can customize for specific clients.
Why Written Legal Advice Matters
Written advisory letters protect both attorney and client. They document exactly what advice you gave, when you gave it, and what information you based it on. If clients later claim you advised differently or sue for malpractice, your written letters provide contemporaneous evidence of your advice. Letters also force attorneys to think through issues completely. Writing advice requires more precision than oral explanations, which helps identify gaps in analysis and ensures you've considered all relevant factors.
Good advisory letters balance legal precision with client accessibility. Clients need to understand your advice to act on it effectively. Explain legal concepts in plain language, define technical terms, use analogies when helpful, and avoid unnecessary jargon. However, don't oversimplify so much that advice becomes misleading. Include enough legal detail that sophisticated clients or their other advisors can assess your reasoning. Strike a balance between accessible and thorough.
Common mistakes in advisory letters include hedge so much the advice is useless (too many qualifiers make clients unable to make decisions), provide analysis without clear recommendation (clients need you to advise, not just explain options), omit important assumptions or limitations (advice based on incomplete facts needs caveats), fail to specify next steps (clients need to know what to do now), and forget to get client consent for major decisions. Good letters give actionable guidance with appropriate caveats about what could change the analysis.
What You Get
Complete legal advisory letter in professional format
Issue explanation, options analysis, and clear recommendation
Client-friendly language with appropriate legal precision
Action items and next steps clearly specified
Professional letter ready for attorney review and transmission
How It Works
- 1Specify advisory topicEnter client, legal issue, your analysis, and recommendations
- 2AI generates letterOur AI writes a complete client advisory letter in 4-5 minutes
- 3Review and customizeRefine for client's sophistication level and specific circumstances
- 4Send to clientTransmit professional advice and document in client file
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this create an attorney-client relationship?
Only if one already exists. This tool generates draft letters for attorneys to send to their clients. The attorney-client relationship is created by your engagement agreement and course of dealing, not by sending an advisory letter. The letter documents advice within an existing relationship. Always include appropriate disclaimers, confirm the letter is based on facts client provided, and note that changed facts might change your advice. Your engagement letter should specify the scope of representation.
How detailed should my advice be?
Detailed enough that clients can make informed decisions and act appropriately. Explain the legal framework, analyze relevant options, identify pros and cons of each approach, make a clear recommendation with reasoning, and specify next steps. However, letters to less sophisticated clients should use simpler language and more explanation. Letters to in-house counsel or sophisticated business clients can be more concise and technical. Tailor detail level to your audience. Always err on the side of clarity over cleverness.
Should I include all my legal analysis?
Include enough that clients understand your reasoning but not so much that the letter is impenetrable. Clients need to know why you recommend one course over others. Cite key statutes or cases if relevant, but don't include lengthy legal research. If detailed analysis is necessary, consider attaching a memo and keeping the letter itself more concise. The letter should enable clients to make decisions, not showcase your legal knowledge. Focus on practical implications more than theoretical legal principles.
What disclaimers should I include?
Standard disclaimers note that advice is based on facts as you understand them, assumes those facts are accurate and complete, could change if facts change or law develops, addresses only the specific question posed, and doesn't constitute advice on other matters. Also disclaim reliance on your research of other jurisdictions' law if applicable, note when advice is preliminary pending further investigation, and specify when advice is limited to specific scope of representation. Disclaimers protect against scope creep and changed circumstances.
How do I handle uncertainty in my advice?
Be honest about uncertainty while still providing useful guidance. If law is unclear, say so and explain what factors will likely determine outcome. If facts are incomplete, identify what additional information you need and how it affects analysis. If you recommend one option despite risks, explain the risks clearly. Clients can't make good decisions without honest assessment of uncertainty. However, don't hedge so much your advice becomes useless. After explaining uncertainties, still make a recommendation about the best course forward.
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