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An MPT task memo directs you to draft a letter to a client who owns a duplex. The client asks whether she may keep a tenant's security deposit after discovering pet damage and whether she must send the tenant a written itemization by a statutory deadline. The file includes photos, repair invoices, a text exchange with the tenant, and a statute requiring itemized notice within 30 days. The library includes a case holding that a landlord who misses the deadline loses the right to retain any deposit.
A student plans to write a formal legal memorandum to the supervising attorney, beginning with "Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion" and using phrases such as "the dispositive statutory condition precedent."
How should the student adjust the format and tone? Discuss client audience, plain language, organization, candor about risk, and practical next steps.