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Thanks everyone for advice!

If it's just a memo that's going to be read in-house, no, I personally wouldn't draw attention to it. If your senior doesn't like the one grammatical mistake that's on page 17, well I guess it sucks to be him. Really.

If it were a pleading, or something a client would see, then yes, I absolutely would send an e-mail saying something like, "I just caught a typo on page 17. I've attached the updated draft" or something brief and to the point like that.

If it is a clear typo, just walk over to their office and ask if they started reviewing it yet; if yes, tell them about it and if not, just send again.

Nothing to worry about. That said, if you wanted to send a revised version and just say "If you haven't started reviewing, here's a revised version, where I fixed a couple typos" -- that's fine too.

That said, are you sure the assignment called for a 17+ page, 6000-word memo? Honestly, I can't image that the senior associate has the time to read something that long. Was there a clear, short summary on the top? If not, I'd add one, and just say you're sending a revised version with a summary for convenience. What's the senior associate going to do with the 20 pages of case law summaries? If it's going to end up a paragraph or a page in a brief, that should basically be your summary. (E.g., "The case law is clear that the XX law in YY jurisdiction requires A, B, and C to establish ZZ -- and plaintiffs have not met their burden. [cites]")

justanotherlurker wrote:Nothing to worry about. That said, if you wanted to send a revised version and just say "If you haven't started reviewing, here's a revised version, where I fixed a couple typos" -- that's fine too.

That said, are you sure the assignment called for a 17+ page, 6000-word memo? Honestly, I can't image that the senior associate has the time to read something that long. Was there a clear, short summary on the top? If not, I'd add one, and just say you're sending a revised version with a summary for convenience. What's the senior associate going to do with the 20 pages of case law summaries? If it's going to end up a paragraph or a page in a brief, that should basically be your summary. (E.g., "The case law is clear that the XX law in YY jurisdiction requires A, B, and C to establish ZZ -- and plaintiffs have not met their burden. [cites]")

I would amend this to say that the language in your email shouldn't be that you fixed some typos, but that you cleaned up some language or wording or that you tightened things up a little bit. It's all about framing it to seem as though you made it better, not that you fixed something stupid.

I would amend this to say that the language in your email shouldn't be that you fixed some typos, but that you cleaned up some language or wording or that you tightened things up a little bit. It's all about framing it to seem as though you made it better, not that you fixed something stupid.

Yes--get good at this. Messaging matters.