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Keisha Stokes-Hough
Keisha Stokes-Hough Southern Poverty Law Center
From Draft to Masterpiece Editing for Excellence
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From Draft to Masterpiece: Editing for Excellence

Effective editing is key to persuasive legal writing. Learn how to streamline writing projects with standardized editing workflows, time-management strategies, and self-editing techniques. This program also explores technology tools to detect errors and enhance collaboration between writers and editors for a polished final product.

Topics covered include:
Agenda:
  • Introductory Overview
    • Brief introduction of the presenter
    • Icebreaker poll of attendees
    • Review of agenda, topics to be covered, and anticipated takeaways

  • Why Editing Matters
    • Review of judicial editing practices
    • When editing is required
    • Editing enhances persuasiveness

  • Preparation Before Editing
    • Setting aside time for editing
    • Creating an outline
    • Organizing research

  • Self-Editing Techniques
    • Overview of self-editing
    • Self-editing tips
    • Editing tables of authorities

  • Guidance for Additional Review
    • Scope of additional review
    • Who should edit
    • Tips for being a good editor of others’ work

  • Technology Tools
    • Review of editing, grammar, and finishing technologies

  • Questions & Answers (as time permits)
Duration of this webinar: 60 minutes
When: Premieres in 4 days | November 14, 2025 12:00 PM PT
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Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credits

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California CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

New Jersey CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.20 General

North Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

South Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Difficulty: All Levels

Texas CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General


This presentation is approved for one hour of General CLE credit in California, North Carolina, and South Carolina (all levels). This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.20 hours of total CLE credit. This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.00 credit hours.

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Speaker
Keisha Stokes-Hough
Keisha Stokes-Hough Deputy Director of Legal Management
Southern Poverty Law Center

Keisha Stokes-Hough is the Southern Poverty Law Center’s deputy director of legal management, where she assists with overseeing the operations of the SPLC’s legal department, and coordinates programming for attorneys and law students. Her experience includes a range of legal and advocacy work seeking economic justice, as well as habeas litigation on behalf of indigent petitioners.

Keisha received a bachelor’s degree from Jackson State University and a law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

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