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I used to put a diagonal light gray huge "DRAFT" across pages of certain documents for which it was important that a working draft not be interpreted as final.

What would've been a great use for the lawyer's dragon documents would be to clearly mark incomplete/unapproved drafts, for internal review only.

Because, obviously, there was no way that you would accidentally submit a filing to the court with a huge purple cartoon dragon on every page.

Depending on the lawyer's personality, a big purple dragon might also double as lighthearted stress relief, when billing 12+ hours a day, of high-stakes work.

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His business is called “Dragon Lawyers”, his phone number is JAKELAW, his main reason for using is because “people like dragons” and his firm’s goal is to “integrate AI to lower the cost of legal services”. I’m pretty sure this is not the guy pulling his hair off for 12+ hours a day to make sure he is doing it right.

Could be both, like Better Call Saul.

Don't stop there: 80% of the links on his website don't work and he has fake reviews from "Johnathan Smith," "Michael Brown," "Emily Johnson," and "Sarah Davis."

Having a specific telephone number and liking dragons are not the real problems.

The fake reviews and broken links would seem to be real problems. Adding watermarks to documents that should not contain them is also problems. "Integrating AI to lower the cost of legal services" may also be a problem.

There is correlation and there is causation, and just because some feature is only correlating (but not causing) the problem, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to it. They’re red (or purple?) flags.

I also think the dragon could be used for such drafts like you describe, although that should not substitute for writing DRAFT on the document, but instead the dragon would be in addition to writing DRAFT on the document (perhaps in the header and/or footer, since the dragon means not room for that in the middle of the document). Both the DRAFT label and the dragon (or other pictures in the watermarks) would only be used in drafts and both omitted for the final version.

The Draft Dragon is impossible to ignore.

Text watermarks can be a PITA when they cover the page and the PDF reader prioritizes them for text selection rather than the top layer text.

Perhaps the watermark could be made as a picture even if it contains text, so that it cannot be used with text selection.

What about a header/footer saying "DRAFT" (ideally with the date and other things that would perhaps not fit on a watermark)?

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