Clear Legal Writing
“Thank you very much for the course. You explained complicated things in a very simple way. Besides it being extremely useful, it was amusing as well.”
Associate, Dentons
Next Academy Course
Training Dates: October 3, 10, 24, and 31 @ 15.00 (CET)
Price per Participant: Euro 300 (+VAT, if applicable)
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Course Description
Although lawyers are expected to provide their advice in a clear, business-like manner, many lawyers find themselves frustrating clients with legal advice that is unnecessarily long and complex.
In this course, you will discover self-editing techniques that will quickly uncover your clarity issues. To address these issues, you will receive a revision roadmap enabling you to transform overly-complex explanations into clear and natural business advice.
Training Outcomes
After the course, you will be able to do the following:
Confidently evaluate the quality of your writing by identifying your strengths and weaknesses
Quickly boost the clarity of your writing by identifying and eliminating the issues that drive clients crazy
Effectively build writing habits that will help you impress clients, both native and non-native English speaking.
Sample Topics
This course introduces to lawyers to the clear writing approach made popular in US law schools. For example:
How to quickly convert long, passive sentences into easy-to-follow text.
How to avoid legalese and other overly-complex linguistic styles.
How to speed up the writing process by following fundamental English patterns
Your Trainer
Your trainer for this course is Aaron M. Muhly.
Common Questions
Number of Participants
As we would like to ensure that all participants can actively participate during the course and receive sufficient feedback, we recommend a maximum of 16 participants.
Length
Your colleagues will participate in 4 hours of live workshops. As we know that some of your colleagues will need to miss sessions due to client conflicts, we will help them stay caught up by providing them free access to our self-study videos and exercises.
Format
The course utilizes a workshop format. We will spend substantial time on coaching your colleagues to analyze and improve their writing based on the course’s writing principles. We minimize our presentation time so that we can maximize our time on providing substantive feedback for individual writing needs.
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Your colleagues can participate in the live sessions via Zoom. They will also have access to the self-study sessions via Teachable.
Register for Clear Legal Writing
Your office can register a colleague for our next academy course by completing the following form.