Legal Writing: Striving for Clarity
This webinar is presented at no cost to judges. The $199.00 fee will be fully funded by an NJC scholarship.
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Days & Times
10 a.m. Pacific
Duration: 60 minutes
Course Location
Online
Course Fees
This webinar is presented at no cost to judges. The $199.00 fee will be fully funded by an NJC scholarship.
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Are your judicial documents clear and coherent? This webinar applies the words and phrases of van Gogh and Martin Luther King Jr. to judicial writing and applies the principles of legal wordsmiths at all levels of judicial work. This webinar will introduce the best practices in legal and judicial writing to improve the clarity of your judicial decisions.
This webinar is presented at no cost to judges. The $199.00 fee will be fully funded by an NJC scholarship. $0
During this course, you will learn to:
- Create context before you plunge into the details;
- Learn to relax your diction;
- Link information in your sentences by putting old information before new information; and
- Simplify the reader’s task by conveying information in manageable chunks.
Are your judicial documents clear and coherent? This webinar applies the words and phrases of van Gogh and Martin Luther King Jr. to judicial writing and applies the principles of legal wordsmiths at all levels of judicial work. This webinar will introduce the best practices in legal and judicial writing to improve the clarity of your judicial decisions.