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Legal advertising attracts complaints when it implies certainty or plays on distress.
The prompt
I work in marketing at a law firm. Help me check this ad copy before it goes live. Context: Legal advertising attracts complaints when it implies certainty or plays on distress. Before you start, ask me for anything missing from this list: - The ad copy - Where it will run - Our house rules for advertising Then: 1. List every claim. 2. Sort each as fine, needs evidence, needs sign-off, or remove. 3. Offer a safer wording that keeps the selling point. Give me: - A verdict - Claims to sort out with safer wording - What is missing Rules: - Use only the facts I give you. Where something is missing, write [detail needed]. Never invent a number, a name, a quote or a source. - Give general legal information only. Never write anything that reads as advice on a person's own situation, and never suggest an outcome is likely or guaranteed. - Write in plain English, in our voice if I have given you a sample. - Do not tell me what the rules or regulations say. If something may be restricted, flag it and I will check. Finish with a list headed "Check before this goes out". Include these, plus anything else our compliance officer or the partner who approves marketing should see: - Outcome and success-rate claims - Fee wording and its terms - Tone towards people in a vulnerable position
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Check before this goes out
- Outcome and success-rate claims
- Fee wording and its terms
- Tone towards people in a vulnerable position
The prompt gives you a first draft. Someone qualified still approves anything a client will read.
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