Efficient, Effective and Powerful Legal Writing (OnDemand)
Originally held on Thursday, December 2, 2021 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Program Fee:
$149 for Members | $249 for Nonmembers
Members who are Recent Law Graduates, Newly Admitted Lawyers (admitted for the first time in any state or country 2020-2022), In-House/Corporate Counsel, Judges, and attorneys who practice within the Government, Academic or Not-for-Profit sectors attend this program for free.
CLE Credit:
New York: 2.0 Skills
New Jersey: 2.0 General
California: 1.5 General
Pennsylvania: 1.5 General
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys
Please Note: Newly admitted NY attorneys cannot fulfill ethics or skills credits through our on-demand programs under OCA rules. For more information on this, please see http://www.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/changes_for_2016.shtml.
Description:
In this two-hour workshop, lawyers learn
practical strategies for drafting effective, clear emails and memos.
Through examples and exercises, participants learn concrete strategies
for eliminating the most common weaknesses in legal writing, including
ineffective organization, weak paragraph structure, and convoluted
sentences.
Participants will learn strategies for:
- drafting effective introductions
- providing useful roadmaps
- writing clear, concrete sentences
- avoiding common errors in grammar and usage
This workshop emphasizes general legal-writing skills, and examples and
exercises are drawn from both litigation and transactional practice.
Participants leave the program with specific, easy-to-implement
strategies for improving their everyday legal writing. Materials
include a tip sheet summarizing the issues covered.
This workshop is geared toward junior attorneys but provides a useful review for attorneys at all levels.
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Program Instructor:
Dianne Rosky, Founder & Principal, Rosky Legal Education LLC