Legal Writing/Communications
In this Legal Writing module students will work on efficient and effective approaches to writing letters, court documents, agreements and legal memorandums. To explore common problems with legal writing, the class will examine and edit examples of commonly used legal documents. In discussions and exercises the class will develop general concepts about the particular writing task. The class will also practice writing documents from given fact situations.
To be an effective legal writer one must clearly define the purpose of a document and understand the audience for whom it is created. These principles will be explored in detail, as will be other characteristics of good legal writing. In the process the student will become aware of the common problems plaguing business, technical and professional writing in general, and legal writing in particular.