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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.
Membership Open to Boyd Law Students
Purpose:
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Officers
Immediate Past Chair: Marilee Cate
Members At Large:
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- 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