Professional Writing for Lawyers

Catalog description

This course offers second- and third-year law students an opportunity to develop further their written communication skills in the context of drafting civil litigation documents. Using civil litigation documents, students will learn/review/practice basic principles and strategies of effective writing, effective legal writing, and effective legal research. The course will emphasize the importance of organization, checklists, samples bank, point of view, audience, strategy, clarity, conciseness, self-editing, and teamwork. Further, the course will aim at helping students to develop confidence in writing and to create a personal writing style.