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Professor Bryan A. Garner—the legal drafter entrusted by the U.S. Judicial Conference to redraft federal rules and by many Fortune 500 companies to streamline their contracts—has distilled the essential points of legal drafting into a three-hour seminar.
Professor Garner teaches you the effective nitty-gritty steps that will revolutionize the way you approach contractual drafting—especially with forms that you’ve inherited.
In this seminar, you’ll learn:
A quick way to add polish to your forms.
A time-tested method for ensuring sound organization.
The “dirty dozen”—words and phrases you need to delete and replace.
How to eliminate needless ambiguities that can spark litigation and harm both your clients and your reputation.
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30-day license from date of purchase to complete this course.
In three separate one-hour sessions, Professor Bryan A. Garner teaches participants how to connect with their readers and persuade them. More than 200,000 lawyers and judges have benefited from Professor Garner’s expertise.
Brimming with superb pedagogical examples, the detailed 30-page course materials show legal writers―in 20 discrete lessons―how to transform mediocre writing into powerful, persuasive prose. Professor Garner has distilled the most telling points of brief-writing by drawing on more than two decades of experience as the nation’s foremost expert on how to write winning briefs.
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30-day license from date of purchase to complete this course.
Are you a slow writer? Would you like to become more efficient—and produce better, clearer work? In this seminar you’ll learn to set a schedule for each of the phases of a writing project—and stick to it.
Let Professor Bryan A. Garner—one of today’s most prolific legal writers—show you the techniques that turned him from a slow, plodding writer into a highly productive one. Justice Antonin Scalia told the Dallas Morning News: “I cannot imagine how he manages to write and edit all the books he does—and all of them first-rate” (4-26-15). He also writes and edits briefs regularly.
Professor Garner will show you how to make the most of your talents—in a highly rational way. Prepare yourself to become industrious. Here you’ll learn how.
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30-day license from date of purchase to complete this course.
Do you know how to make a killer argument on page 1 of your motion or opposition—without the slightest hint of a snarky, snide tone? Few lawyers do. This seminar will show you how.
More than that: you’ll see how to carry through the argument and then clinch it at the end with a strong, compelling conclusion. You’ll learn how to pack your point headings with poison and how to sum up with conviction.
The all-new coursebook is replete with examples that will keep on serving you as rhetorical templates as you prepare all types of motions.
Professor Bryan A. Garner will show you how to write a persuasive motion or opposition—one that your judge will be most inclined to grant.
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This famous seminar, designed specifically for litigators, consists of 100 trial and appellate writing points, each illustrated with good and bad examples actually filed in courts throughout the country.
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For the first time, Professor Bryan A. Garner teaches all 50 sections of his classic text over 10 hourly sessions.
In each session, you’ll work through exercises designed to sharpen your analytical and writing skills. You’ll learn the primary tools and techniques to make the most of your abilities. With Professor Garner’s tips and your dedication, you’ll find yourself succeeding at challenging writing projects and enjoying your work as never before.
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30-day license from date of purchase to complete this course (90-day license if part of the ten-part series).
Become proficient in large-scale revisions and copyediting. Learn to critique others’ writing constructively and to gain objectivity in reviewing your own.
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Legal Writing in Plain English Part 8 (Document Design)
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Acquire enough knowledge about typography to produce readable documents. Learn the elements that make a document approachable and attractive ‑‑ or the opposite.
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Legal Writing in Plain English Part 7 (Legal Drafting (part B))
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Refine your contractual and statutory drafting. Make the language plain and the meaning clear. Avoid introducing words and phrases that could induce litigation.
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Legal Writing in Plain English Part 6 (Legal Drafting (part A))
30-day license from date of purchase to complete this course (90-day license if part of the ten-part series).
Adopt the optimal approach to contractual and statutory drafting. Understand your audience, your purposes, and the common pitfalls of archaic conventions.
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Legal Writing in Plain English Part 5 (Eight Keys to Good Expository Prose)
30-day license from date of purchase to complete this course (90-day license if part of the ten-part series).
Perfect the techniques of persuasive exposition. Consider how you sound; learn why a relaxed, conversational tone works in your professional writing. Guide your readers deftly through narrative and argument.
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Legal Writing in Plain English Part 4 (Structuring Your Analytical and Persuasive Writing)
30-day license from date of purchase to complete this course (90-day license if part of the ten-part series).
Enhance your command of English vocabulary, particularly legal vocabulary. Discover how “impressive” words and phrases can bog down your writing ‑‑ and learn the expressions you should use.
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Legal Writing in Plain English Part 2 (Phrasing Your Sentences)