Clear Legal Writing

Although lawyers are expected to provide their advice in a clear, business-like manner, many lawyers find themselves frustrating clients with legal advice that is unnecessarily long and complex.

In this course, you will discover self-editing techniques that will quickly uncover your clarity issues. To address these issues, you will receive a revision roadmap enabling you to transform overly-complex explanations into clear and natural business advice.

Main Benefits

After the course, you will be able to do the following:

• Confidently evaluate the quality of your English writing by understanding your strengths and weaknesses;
• Quickly boost the clarity of your writing by identifying and eliminating the issues that drive clients crazy; and
• Effectively build writing habits that will help you impress clients, both native and non-native English speaking.

Sample Topics

This course introduces to lawyers the clear writing approach made popular in US law schools. For example:

• How to quickly convert long, passive sentences into easy-to-follow text.
• How to avoid legalese and other overly-complex linguistic styles.
• How to speed up the writing process by following fundamental English patterns.