This course provides attorneys across practice areas with essential legal writing skills, emphasizing clarity, conciseness, and reader-focused communication. Participants will learn to effectively organize their writing, engage their audience, and adhere to professional etiquette in emails and other communications. The curriculum addresses common style issues and teaches self-editing techniques for revising and finalizing documents. The course also includes specific sections that concentrate on writing for litigation practice, enabling participants to learn techniques for persuasive litigation writing, including drafting compelling statements of facts and presenting clear legal analysis.
Successful Writing for Legal Practice - Litigation Path
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Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Develop reader-focused legal documents by understanding and addressing the specific needs and expectations of various readers (clients, other attorneys, and judges)
- Identify the fundamental principles of effective legal writing, including large and small-scale organization, clarity, and precision, and apply them to different types of legal documents, such as briefs, memos, emails, and contracts
- Apply best practices in legal writing tailored for litigation, including drafting persuasive documents and clearly communicating with various audiences
- Revise and finalize legal documents to ensure they are clear, concise, and free from errors
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Step 1: Learn
Learn at your own pace, absorbing lessons in short, easily digested segments led by experienced practitioners.
Step 2: Do
Apply what you've learned to solve real-world client scenarios, using transaction documents derived from actual deals.
Step 3: Review
Deepen your learning in virtual review sessions with an experienced practitioner. Review model answers and ask questions.
Class Content Overview
Level: Basic/Foundational
This class is suitable for attorneys in any practice area who wish to gain a foundational understanding of effective legal writing, focusing on precision, clarity, and conciseness across various legal documents, with an emphasis, in part, on litigation writing.
Course Details
2 CLE credits are available.
Participants will represent a hypothetical client, a well-known Generative AI developer. Participants will be tasked with: (1) drafting an email persuading opposing counsel in a potential promissory fraud suit to participate in pre-litigation mediation and (2) editing four paragraphs from a draft advice letter to make them clear and concise.
Instructors Who Practice What They Teach
Our vetted instructors are global practitioners with outstanding professional and educational qualifications and demonstrated achievement in their fields. All have 10+ years Big Law experience.
In addition to their accomplishments as practitioners, our instructors are also passionate about teaching. We carefully interview instructor candidates to assess personality, domain expertise and effectiveness in the classroom. Our instructors must maintain a 4.5 out of 5 rating from students.
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