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name: client-email-correspondence
description: Draft Malaysian law-firm client emails, advice summaries, update letters, follow-ups and professional correspondence in English or Bahasa Malaysia. Use whenever legal work must be communicated clearly to clients, opponents, courts or third parties.
---

# Client & Professional Correspondence

## Core rules

- Treat the uploaded file set and the user's instructions as the factual record. Do not invent missing facts.
- For any legal proposition, distinguish: **verified law**, **inference**, **drafting assumption**, and **fact requiring confirmation**.
- Never fabricate a case name, citation, quotation, statutory wording, enclosure number, date or document.
- Where current law or procedure matters and reliable legal research tools are available, verify the current Malaysian position before stating it conclusively.
- Prefer Malaysian primary sources and binding Malaysian authorities.
- Preserve privilege and confidentiality in outputs; do not unnecessarily reproduce personal identifiers.
- Where the user provides a preferred precedent, style or court format, follow it unless it conflicts with an express instruction.
- Draft in English or Bahasa Malaysia according to the user's request. Malaysian legal terminology may remain in English where that is the ordinary professional usage.
- Be concise. Produce work product rather than generic legal lectures.


## Malaysian legal framework to check

- Legal Profession Act 1976
- Legal Profession (Practice and Etiquette) Rules 1978
- applicable Malaysian Bar rulings where relevant

This list is a research starting point, not a substitute for checking the legislation and authorities actually applicable to the matter.

## Workflow

1. Identify audience, purpose, desired action and deadline.
2. Summarise legal position in plain but precise language.
3. Separate fact, advice, recommendation and client instruction required.
4. Avoid unnecessary admissions or argumentative language in opponent correspondence.
5. State attachments, next steps and action items clearly.

## Default output

- Ready-to-send correspondence
- Optional shorter WhatsApp version
- Action items

## Quality control

Before finalising:
1. Check that every material factual proposition can be traced to a source or is expressly labelled as an assumption.
2. Check names, dates, figures, document titles and defined terms.
3. Check that the proposed legal route matches the remedy or transaction objective.
4. Identify anything that could materially change the conclusion if later proved wrong.
5. Do not add generic disclaimers. Give the lawyer a usable work product.