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Learn By Doing: An Hour of Legal Writing Exercises
Description:
Bring your computer (or your pencil if you’re old school…no judgment), and get ready to write. Stuart Teicher (the CLE Performer) has a truckload of exercises that we will do individually then discuss as a group, so we can learn about how to become better legal writers. Things you’ll learn are:
- The best way to integrate sources into our legal writing.
- How to write in plain English
- How to rework complicated passages
- And more!
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Course Pricing
TBA members who are judges, lawmakers and law students can take TBA CLE onsite courses at no charge for the programming. There may be a separate charge if meals, special materials or other premium features are involved.
- Member: 50.00
- Non-Member: 75.00
TBA members who are judges, lawmakers and law students can take TBA CLE onsite courses at no charge for the programming. There may be a separate charge if meals, special materials or other premium features are involved.
Course Information
Webcast - Archived Video
Course Credits
Dual Credits: 1.00
General Credits: 0.00
Total Credits: 1
General Credits: 0.00
Total Credits: 1
This program will be filed for Tennessee CLE credit. Please email a request to cle@tnbar.org for Georgia and Mississippi CLE credit.
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The presenter was very knowledgeable and very engaging. Many good and useful insights into brief writing.
The speaker went through the material really fast. It would be great to have a 1/2 seminar with him so he can go through this topic more slowly and in greater detail.
We learned not to use legalese or Latin and how to simplify statements. I found these lessons to be common sense in today's practice. The presentation would have benefitted from highlighting the nuance of legal writing. Hard and fast rules like "stop being wordy" and "steer towards one-syllable words" don't capture the full picture of legal writing. There is grace and tact in choosing your words and sentence structure that may not always call for completely plain English.
I learned to keep the fluff out, meaning delete the extra words and phrases
I thought the syllable rule was helpful.