Friday, December 9, 2016 | 9 am – 11 am
Program Instructor:
Mary Campbell Gallagher BarWrite® and BarWrite Press
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In this hands-on workshop, you will learn strategies for writing more efficiently and effectively, including how to organize memos clearly and provide useful roadmaps. We will cover techniques for quickly eliminating common writing weaknesses, including lack of organization, weak paragraph structure and convoluted sentences.
You will learn strategies for drafting:
- Effective Introductions
- Powerful Headings
- Concise, Clear Sentences
This workshop is geared toward junior attorneys but provides a useful review for attorneys at all levels.
Live Program: $199 Member | $299 Nonmember
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Mary Campbell Gallagher, J.D. (Harvard), Ph.D., is president of BarWrite® and BarWrite Press, and is a nationally-recognized authority on the bar examination, lawyer practice-readiness, and efficient writing in law and business. She lectures nationwide and is a widely-published professional writer and an active professional member of the National Speakers Association New York City Chapter, on whose board she served for nine years, and which awarded her its highest honor.
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9:00 – 9:35 am Document organization - Effective introductions:
a. Link to the reader
b. State the conclusion
c. Provide a roadmap
9:35 – 9:45 am Simplified template - Headings
- Exercises on formulating headings
9:45 – 10:25 am Efficient memos: From outline to execution - Matrix outlining
- Drafting
- Examples and exercises
10:25 – 11:00 am Paragraph structure - Topic sentences
- CRAAC Method
- Mini-roadmaps
- Block quotations
- Effective introductions:
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NY: 2.0 skills
NJ: 2.4 general
CA: 2.0 general
PA: 1.5 general -
Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
Maricela Alfonso| Membership and CLE Relations Associate| (212) 382-6608 | MAlfonso@nycbar.org
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