Brackwater Foods v Orrin Property Holdings

Nine prompts an associate would actually write

You are the associate on one matter, Brackwater Foods v Orrin Property Holdings, a dispute over whether a cold-storage tenant validly exercised a break option by email. Over nine short exercises you will write the prompts that associate would actually write, from opening the file to the partner memo, and each exercise teaches the one prompting technique that step needs. You are graded on the prompt you write, never on the output you imagine; a short prompt that hits every criterion beats a long one that misses one.

About 62 minutes of writing in total; allow about 90 minutes with a second attempt at each exercise. Start at the top; each step builds on the last. Read the principles first if you want the theory before the practice.

Exercises

  1. Step 1: Open the file (intake note from the client email)

    Clear, direct brief 6 min
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  2. Step 2: Extract the break conditions from a lease that talks back

    Documents as data 8 min
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  3. Step 3: Build the key-terms table for the file

    Extraction schema 7 min
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  4. Step 4: Cut the firm's mega-prompt before you reuse it

    Lean, non-contradictory prompt 5 min
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  5. Step 5: Research the email-notice point without inventing a case

    Grounding and abstention 7 min
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  6. Step 6: Update the client in the firm's voice

    One example, with rationale 6 min
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  7. Step 7: Brief the model the way a partner briefs an associate (the opening paragraph)

    Context and motivation 5 min
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  8. Step 8: Review the junior's draft against the lease, not against memory

    Verify against the source 8 min
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  9. Capstone: The partner memo (intake to advice in one prompt)

    All techniques combined 10 min
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