I love it, love it, love it! (The Office Memorandum)
This – yes, THIS – is what I’ve been waiting for. What I’ve suspected is out there. The Office Memorandum – what a beautiful concept! From my textbook:
Attorneys working together in the same office tend to communicate their legal analyses in one of three ways: they talk to each other, they e-mail, and they draft office memoranda. Our focus is on written analysis, and so this book examines how to present a legal analysis in an office memorandum or e-mail.
An understood method and mode of communication between attorneys. And taught in law school, no less. I mean, holy cow, the law profession has process. And they even teach it in school.
If only software engineering could make the claim – that it possesses a standard form of communication that’s so widespread, respected and understood.
This is a symbol for what I’ve been looking forward to in my new career in the law – difficult work because the problem itself is difficult, not the meta-problem.
