6th Annual Legal Writing Workshop
Are the legal writing classes you took in law school the last writing
training you experienced? Would you like an opportunity to study and
improve your basic legal writing skills?
This workshop is an
intensive legal writing course, facilitated by judges, legal writing
professors, and experienced attorneys. While not an advanced writing
course, this workshop will serve as a basic refresher and is designed to
make you a better and more confident legal writer.
The workshop will focus on the following:
- Basic grammar and writing strategies
- Understanding and implementing roadmaps and transitions
- Tailoring your legal writing to your audience and purpose
- Ethical considerations and professionalism in legal writing
- Effectively writing a discussion or argument section of a memo
- The importance of persuasive characterization and fact emphasis
- The differences between oral and written advocacy and advice on to how to effectively engage in each type of advocacy
- The use of generative AI in legal writing
Cosponsored
with the Virginia State Bar Section on the Education of Lawyers and the
American University Washington College of Law Legal Rhetoric Program
Registration Fees:
Live on Site:
- $375 regular registration
- $350 discounted registration for members of VSB Section on Education of Lawyers
MCLE Credit: 7.5 live/interactive credit, including 1.0 hour ethics
Register