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Live webinar: June 27, 2013
1 p.m. – 2 p.m. EST
Faculty: Dianne Rosky, of Rosky Legal Education, LLC
This program will be available on-demand starting July 11, 2013.
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Why You Should Attend
As lawyers and judges spend less and less time reading memos, briefs and other documents, legal writers must ensure that their documents are clear, concise, and easy to digest. And a document is only as clear and concise as the sentences that make up that document.
What You Will Learn
In this webinar, we will tackle the key rules of grammar and style that are most often broken in otherwise good legal writing. Participants will learn practical strategies for eliminating common weaknesses such as convoluted sentences, non-parallel form, and unclear referents.
Through examples and exercises, participants will learn strategies for:
- writing clear, concrete sentences about complex legal issues
- creating emphasis and balance within sentences
- avoiding the most common word-choice mistakes of good legal writers
Who Should Attend
This program covers strategies that apply to legal writing generally, including memoranda, briefs, letters, and emails. The program is geared toward junior attorneys but provides a useful review for attorneys at all levels.
Outline
I. Sentence structure
- Be concise.
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