Advanced Legal Writing & Editing and Making Your Case
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Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
This mainstay LawProse seminar may well be the most heavily attended CLE seminar of all time—more than 100,000 lawyers, judges, law clerks, legal assistants, and others have attended since this popular course was first offered in 1991.
Bryan Garner provides the keys for writing at a truly professional level. He shows participants no-nonsense methods for making the most of their writing aptitude in letters, memos, briefs, and more.
The seminar covers five essential skills for persuasive writing: framing issues that immediately capture the reader’s attention, cutting the verbosity that wastes readers’ time, achieving the continuity that lets your arguments flow naturally, composing your writing projects most efficiently, and quoting authority more effectively than you’re doing now.
Garner’s teaching style highlights dozens of other techniques that can make a tremendous difference. Most important, he shows what doesn’t work and why—then teaches participants how to shake those bad habits that judges despise.
Making Your Case
Your text: the best-seller Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, in which Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner freshly explain every important principle of persuasion—from legal reasoning to oral argument.
Garner’s presentation, interspersed with fascinating video clips of his coauthor and other judges, brings the book a bold vividness that will help you retain and apply the principles of advocacy that win in court.
This is the first-ever national tour of the award-winning book that was featured on 60 Minutes. The collaborative book contains more than a hundred sections on rhetoric, reasoning, briefing, and oral argument.
Sometimes the authors don’t see eye-to-eye, and themselves turn to advocacy: in a riveting, interactive part of the session, you get to vote on whose argument prevails.
YouTube Video - Making Your Case
YouTube Video - Awarding Justice Scalia the Lifetime Achievement Award
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