This seminar features 10 tips to make your legal writing, regardless of context or audience, clear and concise. Ben uses both good and not-so-good examples from inside and outside the legal world in this interactive seminar.
Be Attractive: Document Design
Be a Good Host: The Importance of Context
Be Calm: Understatement and Simplicity
Be Brief: Concision
Be Strong: Powerful Nouns and Verbs
Be Emphatic: Avoiding Cheap Keystrokes
Be Stylish: Sentence Variety
Be Orderly: Logical Organization
Be Musical: Writing that Sounds Good
Be Careful: Revision and Proofreading Techniques
No one likes monotony. Give your sentences variety in both length and structure.
I learned more in that 3 hours than I did in my year-long legal writing class. He also made it as entertaining as a writing seminar could be.
