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Personalized Drafting Style Guide

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Written by Mohit at Lucio

Two lawyers can answer the same email very differently. Profile is where you teach Lucio your drafting style, so every reply it produces sounds like you, with the formality, structure, and conventions you and your clients expect. Personalization is per user, so your settings never affect anyone else's drafts.

Open the Draft Email tab

Go to Profile from the top of the panel, then open the Draft Email tab. This is where all email-drafting style is controlled.

Profile, Draft Email tab: the home of your drafting style.

Turn on personalization

Switch on Enable Personalization. Lucio then studies how you write, the way you greet clients, the way you sign off, your sentence length, and your tone, and applies it to every draft. Use Generate Profile to build this automatically from your sent mail, and Edit to adjust what it has learned.

Set explicit preferences

Beyond what Lucio infers, you can give precise rules in the Drafting Preferences and General Preferences boxes. Lucio follows them every time. For example:

“Always use British English spelling and conventions.”

“Never open an email with I hope you are well.”

“Keep replies under three sentences unless I ask for detail.”

“Address clients as Dear [Name] and opposing counsel as Dear Sirs.”

Control formality, tone, and structure

Express the style you want in plain language and Lucio will hold to it:

You want

Tell Lucio

Level of formality

Always formal with clients; never use contractions in letters to the court.

Tone

Warm and reassuring with long-standing clients; neutral and precise with the other side.

Structure

Open with the answer, then reasons; use short paragraphs, not bullet lists, in client emails.

Length

Default to brief; expand only when I ask for a full explanation.

Jurisdiction and client conventions

Drafting conventions differ by region, spellings, salutations, tone defaults, and date formats. Tap the language icon at the top right of Profile to set Lucio to English (Indian), English (US), English (UK), or Japanese, so every draft is consistent with how your clients expect to read it.

Pick the language and regional dialect your firm and clients use.

Per-client and per-matter tone

Profile sets your general style. For tone that changes by client or matter, layer it on inside the session rather than rewriting Profile. You keep consistency from Profile and flexibility per email.

“Draft this in the more formal tone we use with Client X.”

“Match the register of the attached prior letter to the same recipient.”

Best practices

  • Generate, then refine. Build the profile from your sent mail first, then correct anything that does not sound like you.

  • Be specific in preferences. Concrete rules (under three sentences) work better than vague ones (be concise).

  • Update as you evolve. Revisit Profile when your house style or a key client's preferences change; Lucio always uses the latest settings.

  • Toggle off when you must. For a one-off in a different voice, turn personalization off or override it in the prompt.

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