Learn valuable tips and techniques to make your legal writing persuasive, concise, and comprehendible.
Effective legal writing is essential to persuading a court to rule in your client's favor. This program will enable you to master techniques for organizing your briefs and presenting your arguments clearly to maximize your opportunity to achieve a favorable outcome. The topic will share best practices for effective legal writing and how to avoid common writing errors. It will offer helpful practical tips from an experienced appellate advocate about how to draft briefs efficiently and communicate your written advocacy to the court effectively.
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Agenda
Structure of Briefs
- Organization of Briefs
- Use of Headings
- Developing Roadmaps of Arguments
Making Briefs Clear
- Paragraphs
- Styles
- Citations
Rules and Tips for Drafting
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OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on December 2, 2019.
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This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Faculty
Howard S. Suskin
Jenner & Block LLP
- Partner in Jenner & Block LLP’s litigation department
- Substantial first-chair experience representing individuals and business entities in civil and criminal securities matters
- Co-chair of Jenner & Block LLP’s class action and securities litigation practices
- Members of the Leading Lawyers Network have consistently recognized his work in several areas, including class actions, commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and securities and venture financing law
- Been named one of the Best Lawyers in America for commercial litigation
- Illinois Super Lawyer named him a Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyer eight times
- He is on the faculty of Practicing Law Institute; and has lectured extensively; instructed legal writing at the University of Michigan Law School; and has published numerous treatises and articles on issues relating to arbitrations, class actions and securities law, including serving as editor and co-writer of the West Publishing Illinois Civil Litigation Guide, Moore’s Federal Civil Motion Practice and Pretrial Civil Litigation, the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education Treatise on Class Actions, and the ABA’s Annual Survey of State Class Action Litigation
- J.D. degree, with honors, University of Michigan Law School; graduate, with distinction, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University
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