They must clearly perceive the significant place that writing occupies in every phase of their practice. Clients’ futures depend on lawyers’ effectiveness in putting their thoughts into words—upgrading their thoughts, and expressing them with utmost clarity.
Few lawyers are nearly as good with language as they think they are. Effective instruction is sobering: it helps lawyers understand what might be possible if, without self-delusion, they could reach their true potential.
Instead of fearing the necessity of writing, lawyers should relish it. Only if lawyers embrace the literary side of their profession can they enjoy it and learn to excel at it. Effective instruction should leave legal writers with a sense of mission, anticipation, and exhilaration.
Attend the most popular CLE seminar of all time. More than 215,000 people—including lawyers, judges, law clerks, and paralegals—have benefited since the early 1990s. You'll learn the keys to professional writing and acquire no-nonsense techniques to make your letters, memos, and briefs more powerful.
You'll also learn what doesn't work and why—know-how gathered through Professor Garner's unique experience in training lawyers at the country's top law firms, state and federal courts, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies.
Professor Garner gives you the keys to make the most of your writing aptitude—in letters, memos, briefs, and more. The seminar covers five essential skills for persuasive writing:
framing issues that arrest the readers' attention;
cutting wordiness that wastes readers' time;
using transitions deftly to make your argument flow;
quoting authority more effectively; and
tackling your writing projects more efficiently.
He teaches dozens of techniques that make a big difference. Most important, he shows you what doesn't work—and why—and how to cultivate skillfulness.
