Getting Closer to Perfect: Tips to Help Paralegals Write Effective Emails and Memos
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Benefits
This live audio conference will look at some key legal writing concepts applicable to a variety of documents that paralegals draft on a regular basis, including emails, memoranda and discovery. Good legal writing is a skill that can be learned, and comes through practice and multiple drafts. Attend this program and receive a basic review of grammar and other writing strategies, dispel some myths about rules you thought were rules in elementary school - but no longer apply, and feel much more confident in attacking and successfully completing any legal writing assignment that you are given.
Agenda
| Overview of Legal Writing | |
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| Basic Writing Strategies | |
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Faculty
Heather E. Ridenour, Washington College of Law
David H. Spratt, Washington College of Law
Heather E. Ridenour
- Joined the Washington College of Law faculty in 2008 as director of the Legal Analysis Program and legal rhetoric professor
- Previously worked with the Academic Support Program at Texas Wesleyan Law School as an instructor of academic support and legal writing specialist
- Previously had a probate and guardianship practice and was the guardianship auditor at the Tarrant County Probate Court, working under Judge Patrick Ferchill
- Active in taking pro bono guardianship cases
- Member of the Legal Writing Institute and frequently speaks on legal writing and academic support issues
- Graduate, cum laude, associate editor and articles editor on the Texas Wesleyan Law Review, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
David H. Spratt
- Prior to joining the Washington College of Law faculty in 2006, taught legal writing and research at the George Washington University School of Law, legal analysis and writing at Concord School of Law, and legal methods at the Washington College of Law
- Founding partner of Schwartz & Spratt, PLC, a family law firm in Fairfax, Virginia
- Previously worked as an associate at the Law Office of Betty A. Thompson, Ltd., and at The Lewis Law Firm, in the area of family law
- Former chair of the Virginia Bar Association, Domestic Relations Section and the Northern Virginia Regional Advisory Committee
- Regularly writes a column, Writer’s Block, in the Virginia Bar Association News Journal
- Member of the Legal Writing Institute and frequently speaks on legal writing issues
- B.A. degree in government and psychology, The College of William and Mary; Graduate, summa cum laude, American University Washington College of Law
These Materials are Designed For
This live audio conference is designed for paralegals, legal assistants and attorneys.
| CD & Manual | - CD Set with bound 28 page manual |
| Podcast | - 87 Minute MP3 with 28 page electronic manual - Immediate Access and No Shipping Cost |
