Legal Writing

Better Grammar for Lawyers: Part Three

No, this isn’t a series of lessons I’m running ? it’s a webinar Bryan Garner is running tomorrow.

The editor in chief of Black?s Law Dictionary, and a highly regarded legal writing expert, Garner regularly hosts these seminars to help attorneys develop their writing skills:

• The Winning Brief
• Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
• Advanced Legal Drafting
• The Winning Oral Argument
• Advanced Judicial Writing
• Legal Writing in Plain English
• Making Your Case

The Better Grammar seminar is brand new. It teaches attorneys how to analyze sentences and find the flaws in them. And it helps attorneys “learn to think the way a professional editor thinks, rejecting edits that unskilled editors are prone to and instead seeing where the true linguistic problems lie.”

Before the seminar, the attorneys take a quiz consisting of 50 flawed sentences and four possible edits, only one of which works. During the seminar, the flawed sentences and the edits are reviewed.

Details:

Better Grammar for Lawyers: Part Three
Friday, May 14
12:00 ? 1:00 p.m. Central Time
$199.00

Click here to register.

Note: Let me say this once more ? every writer needs an editor, and the best writers usually demand the best editors. Only amateurs go without.

Full post as published by Set in Style on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).