Powerful Legal Writing

One of the most important skills an attorney must master in providing competent representation to a client is effective legal writing. Fortunately, there are improvement techniques that can allow an attorney to enhance their legal writing skills and deliver effective legal writing in their practice. When consistently practiced, these improvement techniques will allow attorneys to enhance their legal writing and thereby increase their ability to effectively provide counsel to clients.

This program is intended for attorneys at all levels who want to learn about techniques to enhance their legal writing skills. This program will provide best practices for attorneys interested in drafting effective legal documents, including basic preparations prior to drafting, ensuring the document is readable and written with clarity, telling a story in the document in furtherance of the goal of the writing, and learning how to achieve a polished document with iterative editing.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the key preparations prior to drafting that help during the process of drafting an effective legal document
• Investigate how to ensure the document is readable and written with clarity to get your message across to the reader in a way they will understand by having a goal while drafting the document and telling a story in the document to maintain interest and to persuade the reader
• Discover tips for creating a polished document through iterative editing