Efficient, Effective & Powerful Legal Writing

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.

  DVDs & CDs: $199 Member | $299Nonmember
  On-Demand: $149 Member| $249 Nonmember
  Materials Only (No CLE Credit): $99 Member | $129 Nonmember

  * New York residents will be charged the New York sales tax for all audio visual purchases.

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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

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• This program provides 2.0 credits in skills for the New York & New Jersey MCLE requirements. California & Pennsylvania credit differs as it is based on a 60-minute credit hour. The live program provided transitional credit to newly admitted attorneys; the recording does not provide transitional credit.

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• Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:

  Maricela Alfonso| Membership and CLE Relations Associate| (212) 382-6608 | MAlfonso@nycbar.org

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