Personal Injury For LSS - Advanced Topics


Course Date: December 10, 2003

Topics will include

  • Organizing your ideas: proper style, paragraph structure
  • Avoiding legalese
  • Conveying complex ideas in a simple manner
  • Drafting legal memoranda
  • Ethics and professionalism of legal writing
  • Recognizing the dos and don’ts of legal prose
  • Contract and agreement drafting
  • Writing better research memos, letters, and e-mail
  • The process of editing (yourself and others)
  • Special factors in technical writing