CLEonline.com is pleased to present Professor Wayne Schiess of the University of Texas School of Law for a unique legal writing seminar that focuses on legal drafting-- that is, the writing of instruments, agreements, and rules. If you write settlement agreements in litigation, prepare text for employee-benefit manuals, or write disclaimers for Web sites, then you draft, and you can enhance your drafting skills through this seminar. The seminar is entitled:
Legal Writing: Ten Things Legal Drafters Should Know
This seminar also features an audio presentation by the instructor/moderator for this seminar in which he discusses the issues outlined below. This is a streaming audio presentation that you can access on demand at any time during the course of the seminar. The audio presentation lasts for approximately 1.0 hour.
** (available at any time of the day or night and in time increments convenient to you during the above referenced dates) **
Subjects to be discussed during this CLEonline.com seminar include:
- Drafting Education-Original And Continuing
- Forms: Consistency, Accretion, And Style
- Legal-Drafting Myths: Precision And Nonambiguity
- Sentence Length And Density
- Words Of Obligation
- Poor Sentence Structure, Including Nominalizations And Passive Voice
- Misplaced Modifiers And The Doctrine Of The Last Antecedent
- Synonym strings
- Archaisms
- Document Design, Including Numbering
The instructor/moderator for this CLEonline.com seminar will be:
Professor Wayne Schiess of Austin. Professor Schiess joined the faculty at The University of Texas School of Law in 1992, after three years of law practice in the Dallas office of Baker Botts, LLP. He teaches Legal Research and Writing, Writing for Litigation, Basic Drafting, and TQ Seminar. He gives seminars on legal writing and provides legal-writing expertise as a consultant. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School and his B.A. from Brigham Young University.
The seminar registration fee for this CLEonline.com seminar is only $25.
This seminar is accredited for 1.0 hour of participatory CLE credit (no ethics) by the MCLE Committees of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of California. In addition, regular CLE credits for this seminar are also available in a number of other states. CLEonline.com is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider pursuant to Sec. 9 of the California MCLE Rules and Regulations. (These are not self-study credits, but rather 'participatory' credits as you would receive for attending a traditional, live CLE seminar.)
