| A WRITER'S WORKSHOP: LEGAL WRITING FOR YOUR READER
Sponsors: Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Suffolk University Law School and the Social Law Library
Please Note: This course has already
been held.
Date: Friday, December 02, 2005
Location: Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
Time: 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration Information
Most legal writing reflects the writer’s ability to think like a lawyer, focusing on the law, yet it falls short of clearly expressing how the law pragmatically affects the client or audience. This seminar will help you improve your writing skills by examining both the reader’s and writer’s perspective, in addition to thinking like a lawyer. By focusing your writing on your audience and critiquing writing for clarity, you will concretely improve your writing and editing skills. Intensive writing and editing exercises are used throughout the seminar, to immediately apply the skills learned. Quotes About The Workshop What did you find most valuable about this program?
“The speakers’ comments and their personal styles & writing methods.”
Janis Kearney, MBTA What did you find most valuable about this program?
“Interactive exercises, real world examples and applicability to practice.”
Karen Ames, Social Security Administration
Attend and Learn:
- How to approach writing from the reader’s perspective
- How to grab the reader’s attention
- How to provide roadmaps and signposts for the reader
- How to provide structure and connections for the reader
- How to write with precision and brevity
- How to edit with a focus
~ABOUT THE FACULTY~ Kathleen Elliott Vinson is Director of the Legal Practice Skills Program and supervises the Academic Support Program at Suffolk University Law School. She has taught legal writing for almost a decade. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Writing Institute. In addition, she co-founded the New England Legal Writing Consortium. She has given numerous presentations at national conferences and has conducted continuing legal education programs on writing. She is the co-author of the book, Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill, and has published over a dozen articles on legal writing. Her experience includes clerking for Justice Howard Dana of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. She received her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, cum laude, and a B.A., magna cum laude from Stonehill College. Lisa Freudenheim teaches Advanced Legal Writing at Suffolk University Law School. She is a frequent speaker in continuing legal education seminars on writing and analysis. At Suffolk Law School , she has also worked as a Professor in both the Academic Support and Legal Practice Skills Programs. In addition, she has directed the Legal Writing Component of the CLEO Summer Institute and co-directed the STRIVE pre-orientation program for at-risk students. Before coming to Suffolk in 1997, she worked as a labor and employment lawyer in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a B.A., cum laude, from Tufts University.
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Friday, December 02, 2005 |
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Tuition is $159; $109 for attorneys admitted since 2002 and members of the Social Law Library.
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Registrations at the door are welcome, but please register in advance to reserve a seat or call to confirm space availability.
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| Refunds: |
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Written requests for cancellations received 24 hours prior to the program will be granted a refund, minus a $15 charge.
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| Location: |
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Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston, MA
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| Credit: |
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Approved for CLE Credit in RI, NH, VT & ME.
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If you have special needs addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act, please notify us.
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