Join Kaplin Stewart’s Virtual CLE: ADVANCED LEGAL WRITING AND EDITING: Beyond Logic to Coherence and Strength

3/14/2025 | Events & Seminars, General, News & Resources

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 & Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Advanced Legal Writing and Editing – Part 1 – Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 (continental breakfast at 8:30); 3.5 credits pending approval;

Advanced Legal Writing and Editing – Part 2 – Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 (continental breakfast at 8:30); 3.5 credits pending approval.

• Preliminary Perspective: Computer Reading
• Effective and Efficient Editing
• Thinking Like A Writer: The Principles
• Implementing Principle 1: The Importance of Meta-Information
• Implementing Principle 2a: Avoiding Default Organizations
• Paragraphs: Contexts, Transitions, and Emphasis
• Implementing Principles 2b and 3: Sentence Chunks and Cores
• Style: Grace and Energy through Rhythm and Character
• Editing Exercises

The costs for both days is $775. We are hosting in our Blue Bell PA Office.  We would gladly welcome you!   Just let me know if you are interested.  If you are coming in person, you can bring a check the day of.   If approved for remote, you can send check in advance. 

Presented by Timothy P. Terrell

Professor Timothy Terrell is a Professor of Law Emeritus at Emory University School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 1976, and retired in 2023.this seminar, attorneys will learn how to write with clarity in a variety of legal documents, such as client letters, memos, emails, and legal briefs.  He is the co-author of a popular text on legal writing, entitled Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer’s Guide to Effective Writing and Editing (4th ed. 2021, Practicing Law Institute). His most recent book, on legal theory, is entitled The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning: Developing Analytic Acuity from Law School to Law Practice (2016, Carolina Academic Press). Timothy has also presented numerous programs on opinion writing to judges and judicial clerks and has for three decades conducted the writing and editing portion of the NYU Institute of Judicial Administration’s annual training program for new federal and state appellate judges.