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Advanced Legal Writing CLE in Las Vegas

March 21, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Join the Appellate and Litigation Sections for a full day in-person CLE seminar focusing on the best writing practices, Advanced Legal Writing.

Taught by national speaker Elizabeth Francis, this course will apply advanced composition principles to legal writing, particularly writing in the litigation and appellate contexts. Beginning with questions of aim, audience and style, the class will define clear, coherent, cohesive and well-argued legal prose. We will go on to consider best practices in legal and judicial writing at this historical moment, and think together about relationships among writing, decision-making and argument. We will acknowledge our inheritance of the plain language movement and the effects of that movement on current practice.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn to define and compose clear, coherent, cohesive and well-argued legal prose.

2. Learn to recognize the best practices in legal and judicial writing at this historical moment.

3. Learn to consider relationships among writing, decision-making and argument.

4. Learn to acknowledge our inheritance of the plain language movement and the effects of that movement on current practice.

Limited to 40 participants. Lunch will be provided.

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Membership Open to Boyd Law Students

The section invites members to join its LinkedIn group.
The section invites you to watch the on-demand recording of “Behind the Scenes in the Nevada Supreme Court” for free!

Purpose:

Enhance the role and skills of the lawyers engaged in the practice of Appellate litigation through study, collection, development and dissemination of materials on subjects of interest to appellate litigation practitioners; assist in the formation, administration and implementation of programs, forums and other activities for the education of members of the State Bar of Nevada in matters pertaining to Appellate Litigation; recognize and discuss means of improving the law and the practice of law in the field of Appellate Litigation; and act upon all matters germane to its purpose as so described or referred to by the Board of Governors.

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Officers

Chair: Anjali Webster
 
Chair-Elect: Kelly Dove
 
Secretary: Marshall Willick
 
Treasurer: Jordan Smith
 

Immediate Past Chair: Marilee Cate

Members At Large:    

    • Judge Deborah Westbrook
    • Sharon Dickinson
    • Chelsea Latino
    • Therese Shanks
    • Anthony Gordon

Jeffrey Conner

Staff Liaison: Judi De Marco

Email: judid@nvbar.org

Board Liaison: Alexander Velto

Email: alex@rrlawyers.com

Dues: Annual Dues are $25 a year