Effective Legal Writing

2 Credit Hours

Effective Legal Writing is a master class that will prepare you to write well in any legal setting. Lawyers are in large part, professional writers. As professional writers, lawyers require a reliable writing process and familiarity with a set of tools that will permit them to produce high quality written work. Over four synchronous sessions, you will learn to write with impact, clarity, and appeal. We will discuss and practice the major principles of legal writing in plain English - rejecting clutter, legalese, and fuzzy thinking in favor of simplicity, incisiveness, and style. You will leave the course with a toolbox for legal writing, complete with a writing process and reliable methods for approaching organization, sentences, even words, that will serve you well in your legal practice.