Learn to communicate and advocate more effectively at this advanced legal writing program. You will learn principles of plain language writing and document design to prepare persuasive, concise, and well-supported legal briefs and memoranda.
Join us so you can acquire the tools to:
- Make your writing clear, concise, and persuasive
- Strengthen your legal briefs and memoranda
- Improve your advocacy
- Recap of Part 1
- Review The Power of Plain Language: Say Less, Win More (Part 1)
- Writing Clearly, Continued
- Tools to write clearly, continued
- Prefer concrete subjects
- Choose words precisely
- Shorten sentences
- Document Design — How a Document Looks Is As Important as What It Says
- Tools to make your document more appealing
- Typeface (font choice)
- Alignment
- White space
- Caveat — always follow court rules
- Organization and Advanced Strategies in Editing
- Organization — effective paragraphs using TREAC
- Advanced strategies in editing
- Language Change and Inclusive Pronouns
- Changing role of traditional grammar rules
- Use of inclusive pronouns
- How to write clearly with inclusive pronouns
- Final Thoughts — Is Writing Well Worth the Effort?
- Questions & Answers
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* CLE credit for this webinar is available for lawyers who have claimed their Justia Lawyer Directory profile and are Justia Connect Practice members attending live. On-demand CLE credit is only available to Justia Connect Pros.
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.00 General
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.20 General
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.00 General
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.00 General
Difficulty: All Levels
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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Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Professor Kathleen Dillon Narko is a Clinical Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She has taught legal writing since 1999, and her legal writing columns appear in the Chicago Bar Association’s flagship publication, the CBA Record. Professor Narko has over 25 years’ experience teaching a variety of legal writing courses, including Communication and Legal Reasoning (for first-year JD students), Common Law Reasoning (for international LLM students), and Advanced Legal Writing (for upper-class law students). Read More ›