Efficient, Effective and Powerful Legal Writing
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 |12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Description:
In this 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.
CLE Credit:
New York: 1.5 Skills
New Jersey: TBD
California: TBD
Pennsylvania: TBD
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys
Program Fee:
$149 for Members | $249 for Nonmembers
Small Law Firm Member: $79
This program is free to Members who are Law Students, Recent Law Graduates, Newly Admitted Lawyers (admitted for the first time in 2022-2024), In-House Counsel, Judges, or Attorneys in Government, Academic or Not-for-Profit sectors.
For New York Attorneys: Newly admitted attorneys (those admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less) may participate in Skills CLE courses in live, nontraditional formats, where questions are allowed during the program (through December 31, 2024 per recent guidance of the CLE Board – for more information, click here).
Program Insturctor:
Dianne Rosky, Founder & Principal, Rosky Legal Education LLC
Information about our Financial Aid Policy and Application can be found here.