Originally held on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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 Mary Campbell Gallagher |
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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.
Program Fee: $119 for Members | $219 for Nonmembers
Members who are Recent Law Graduates, Newly Admitted Lawyers (admitted for the first time in any state or country 2018-2020), In-House/Corporate Counsel, Judges, or attorneys that practice within the Government, Academic or Not-for-Profit sectors attend this program for free.
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6:00 pm – 6:35 pm Document organization
• Why are you telling me these things?
• Overall organization
• Connect the reader to your topic and organization
• Start with your conclusion.
• Overall organization: Effective introductions: Show where you are going
• Show how you will get where you are going. Examples. Revised introduction.6:35 pm – 6:40 pm Templates
• Working order
• Memorandum template and optional sections6:40 pm – 7:20 pm Paragraph structure
• Syllogism
• Topic sentences
• Provide a further map for how to get to the conclusion
• Powerful topic headings and examples
• Use block quotations powerfully
• Legal transitions
• Some currently common errors7:20 pm – 8:00 pm Efficient memos: From outline to execution
• Matrix outlining
• Drafting
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CLE Credit:
New York: 2.0 Skills
New Jersey: 2.0 General
California: 1.5 General
Pennsylvania: 1.5 General
Connecticut: Available to Licensed AttorneysPlease Note: Newly admitted NY attorneys cannot fulfill ethics or skills credits through our on-demand programs under OCA rules. For more information on this, please see http://www.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/changes_for_2016.shtml.
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Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
Angie Avila, Manager, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org______________________________________________________________