“Bryan Garner Persuasive Writing Bryan A. Garner’s Spring 2014 Seminars About Your Teacher (Professor Bryan A. Garner) • Editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary . • Consultant to U.S. Judicial Conference to revise federal rules. • First person to be coauthor with a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. • The only legal-writing authority cited by every appellate court in the U.S. • Monthly columnist for ABA Journal . • Author of more than 20 books on law and language ( + one on golf). Advanced Legal Writing & Editing 8:30 a.m.–noon The Redbook Seminar Using a Manual on Legal Style 1:00–2:30 p.m. Making Your Case The Art of Persuading Judges 3:00–4:30 p.m. Did you know? 1. Your writing ability dramatically affects your income over time. 2. The way you’re writing may be ham- pering your career. 3. Writers are made, not born—and you can become much more effective. 4. There’s a simple way to gain credibility on page one. 5. LawProse seminars reflect the know- how acquired from training judges and lawyers from all 50 states for more than 20 years. The acknowledged authority on legal writing. A Manual On Legal Style By Bryan A. Garner EDITOR IN CHIEF BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY THIRD EDITION Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
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“Bryan Garner is funny, eloquent, academic, persuasive.”—Los Angeles
Persuasive Writing Bryan A. Garner’sSpring 2014 Seminars
About Your Teacher(Professor Bryan A. Garner)
• Editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary.
• Consultant to U.S. Judicial Conference to revise federal rules.
• First person to be coauthor with a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• The only legal-writing authority cited by every appellate court in the U.S.
• Monthly columnist for ABA Journal.
• Author of more than 20 books on law and language (+ one on golf).
Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
8:30 a.m.–noon
The Redbook SeminarUsing a Manual on Legal Style
1:00–2:30 p.m.
Making Your CaseThe Art of Persuading Judges
3:00–4:30 p.m.
Did you know?1. Your writing ability dramatically affects
your income over time.
2. The way you’re writing may be ham-pering your career.
3. Writers are made, not born—and you can become much more effective.
4. There’s a simple way to gain credibility on page one.
5. LawProse seminars reflect the know-how acquired from training judges and lawyers from all 50 states for more than 20 years.
The acknowledged authority on legal writing.
A Manual OnLegal Style
By Bryan A. GarnerEDITOR IN CHIEF
BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY
THIRD EDITION
Advanced Legal Writing
& Editing
Miami TUESDAY, MARCH 4
Hyatt Regency Miami400 SE Second AvenueMiami, FL 33131305-358-1234
This is the most popular CLE seminar of all time. Since the course was � rst offered in 1991 more than 150,000 lawyers, judges, law clerks, paralegals, and others have attended. Bryan Garner recently revised and updated the entire coursebook. In this seminar, Garner gives you the keys for writing at a truly professional level, including these essential writing skills:
• Opening with a solid lead that frames the issue in 90 seconds—every time.
• Cutting the clutter that your judicial readers abhor.
• Editing to polish and brighten.• Riveting the reader’s attention
to bolster comprehension.• Wrapping up convincingly to
“close the sale.” • Budgeting your writing time to
be ef� cient and effective.
Every law of� ce needs expertise—true expertise—on producing � rst-rate documents: letters, contracts, motions, and appellate briefs. You have that, you say? Likely not: errors abound, often costly ones. Garner’s seen them, even in the best fi rms’ work product. Using the new third edition of his comprehensive restatement of legal style, The Redbook, Garner will teach you to:• Make fast and reliable decisions
about grammar, punctuation, and usage in all your legal documents.
• Cultivate confi dence in solving editorial problems peculiar to legal writing.
• Produce documents that refl ect well on you and your � rm.
• Become more knowledgeable about the nuances of legal usage.
Your text is the hardcover best-seller Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, in which Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner freshly explain the principles of persuasion—from keen legal rea-soning to polished brief-writing to effective oral argument. You’ll learn:
• The general principles of argumentation, from rhetoric to rules of court, with appeals to reason and moderation.
• Legal reasoning, including the canons of construction, the relative weight of precedent, and the importance of an explicit issue statement.
• Briefi ng skills, from the writing process to structuring your argument.
• Oral argumentation, from preparation through how to react when the judge interrupts your planned presentation.
The Redbook Seminar:
Your Resource for Expert Legal Editing
Making Your Case:
The Art of Persuading Judges
CALIFORNIA—Attorneys who wish to remove their name from lists the State Bar provides to qualifi ed outside entities may do so by logging on to Member Login on the home page of the State Bar’s website. After registering with My State Bar Pro� le, go to “Change my address, phone numbers, and opt-out preference,” and change your Opt-out preferences. Members may also e-mail their opt-out request to [email protected], or by calling the Member Services Center, 1-888-800-3400. Members who choose to opt out will not receive mailings about State Bar-sponsored member bene� ts such as attorney insurance program offerings, MCLE provider programs and a variety of professional discounts.
Spring Schedule:Dates & Locations
LawProse Seminars:Policies & Information
Take all three seminars and you’ll be in the end-of-the-day drawing for the limited-edition bobblehead.
ORBe the originating attorney for your fi rm’s in-house LawProse seminar.
www.lawprose.org Visit our website for:
• Bryan Garner’s CLE webinars, available 24/7.
• Garner’s video interviews with seven Supreme Court Justices plus judges, lawyers, authors, and many more.
• Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day, free in your inbox every weekday.
• Information about limited � nancial support available based on need.
TUITION (see registration form) is payable by check or online with a credit card before the day of the class. At-the-door registration is an extra $15 per seminar.
CLE CREDIT has been applied for in states where seminars are held. Out-of-state attorneys should con-tact their state Bar and apply for credit directly. You’ll receive an of-� cial certi� cate of attendance.
TRANSFER of your registration to another location on this brochure, or to another member of your � rm or company, will be approved if we receive 24 hours’ notice before the seminar date.
CANCELLATION with refund (less a $50 enrollment charge) will be ap-proved if we receive 7 days’ notice before the original seminar date. No refund will be made for late cancel-lation or absence.
REFRESHMENTS will be available during the morning and afternoon breaks.
JACKETS OR SWEATERS. Room temperatures vary, so bring some-thing to keep you warm if you get uncomfortable.
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Advanced Legal The Making Discount: Writing & Editing Redbook Your Case All 3 Seminars 8:30 a.m.–noon 1:00–2:30 p.m. 3:00–4:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. $395 $295 $295 $795
America’s Top Firms Can’t Be WrongA top-notch trainer (Professor Bryan A. Garner), com-prehensive coursebooks, and our guarantee of satis-faction ensure that a superlative learning opportunity awaits you at every LawProse seminar—three reasons that all the 250 largest � rms have chosen us to train their lawyers. You should too. When you need skills training—and who doesn’t?—why not learn from the best? LawProse supports you continually. We don’t just stand behind our CLEs, we stand behind you. If you attend one of our seminars and are later faced with a question that puzzles you, call us: describe your prob-lem and we’ll promptly respond. What other CLE provider makes that pledge? Only LawProse.
Your Individualized Curriculum the LawProse Way—Free!
At no charge, the LawProse staff (includ-ing six lawyers and two paralegals) will evalu-ate three of your writing samples and make speci� c recommendations about avenues of study most suitable to you.
We’ll return your documents with hand edits by one lawyer–editor, together with a brief memo summarizing the writing and style issues on which you most need to con-centrate. The memo will provide you with a self-paced, guided program, including recom-mended online courses and outside reading that will help you.
The Individualized-Curriculum Program is one way LawProse gives back to the pro-fession—by investing our time and energy in cultivating writers who wish to excel . E-mail [email protected] for more information.
How to Win a Bryan Garner Bobblehead!
Seminars help you prepare:• Fee agreements• Settlement offers• Licensing
agreements• Research memos• Client updates
8:30 a.m.–noon 1:00–2:30 p.m. 3:00–4:30 p.m.
Legal Writing
8:30 a.m.–noon
Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
3:00–4:30 p.m.
The Redbook
1:00–2:30 p.m.
The acknowledged authority on legal writing.
A Manual OnLegal Style
By Bryan A. GarnerEDITOR IN CHIEFBLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY
THIRD EDITION
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Advanced Legal Writing & Editing8:30 a.m.–noon
The Redbook Seminar1:00–2:30 p.m.
Making Your Case3:00–4:30 p.m.
Miami March 4Minneapolis March 18New Orleans April 1Houston April 3Washington April 14Dallas April 18Chicago April 21New York April 24San Francisco April 28Los Angeles May 2Kansas City June 3Austin June 5
The acknowledged authority on legal writing.
A Manual OnLegal Style
By Bryan A. GarnerEDITOR IN CHIEF
BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY
THIRD EDITION
Advanced Legal Writing
& Editing
We’re changing the way lawyers communicate.
Praise for Bryan Garner’s Training
“Bryan Garner’s seminars are the most valuable things I know of to help a lawyer communicate effectively. Lawyers who strive to be effective never stop learning. I’d go again and again and again.”
—Ted Olson Gibson Dunn
“Lawyers are bombarded by seminars. But this one I rate at the top. We get our investment back in spades.”
—Bradley J. Butwin Chair, O’Melveny & Myers
“No matter how little or how much time you spend with Garner, it is time well spent.” —L.A. Daily Journal
