Persuasive Legal Writing: A Workshop for Litigators
Why Attend?
How the classic skill of rhetoric can make you a more persuasive writer.
Persuasive legal writing requires mastery of three separate, although related, skills: “thinking like a lawyer,” “thinking like a speaker,” and “thinking like a writer.” This webcast focuses on the connections between the last two skills – thinking like a speaker and thinking like a writer – outlining the fundamental elements of rhetoric that underlie persuasive writing and showing you how you can use them to create powerful legal briefs and other persuasive legal writing.
Taught by a lawyer and legal writing expert who has trained thousands of lawyers across the country, this webcast focuses on the classic skill of rhetoric and how it can be applied at every level of your writing to heighten its persuasive impact. Although aimed at litigators, this webcast is a must for all attorneys who want to become more persuasive legal writers.
Topics include:
Writing Introductions: The Difficulty of Practical Points and Language;
Organizing Your Argument: The Problem of Defaults;
Drafting Paragraphs and Sentences: Subtle Meanings in Syntax and Diction
Planning Chairs
Timothy P. Terrell is a Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. For more than a decade, Professor Terrell and his company, LAWriters LLC, have conducted an array of effective legal writing programs for law firms, courts, government agencies, and bar organizations across the country and abroad. He also has served as Director of Professional Development at King & Spalding in Atlanta. He is the co-author, with Stephen V. Armstrong, of Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer’s Guide to Effective Writing and Editing (now in its third edition). In addition, Professor Terrell has published books and articles principally in the areas of constitutional law and jurisprudence.
Program Schedule
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 2.0; total 50-minute hours: 2.4.
Here's what registrants have said about this course:
"Excellent instructor!"
"Outstanding. Terrell is by far the most engaging CLE instructor I have heard."
"Impressive and knowledgeable professor."
Times
Eastern 12 noon – 2:00 pm
Central 11 am – 1:00 pm
Mountain 10 am – noon
Pacific 9 am – 11:00 am
Alaska 8 am - 10:00 am
Hawaii 7 am – 9:00 am
