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at every LawProse seminar: a top-notch trainer (Professor Bryan A. Garner), comprehensive course-books, and our guarantee of satisfaction. That’s why all the 250 largest firms have chosen us to train their lawyers.

You should too. When you need skills training—and who doesn’t?—you should 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 legal-writing issue that puzzles you, contact us: describe your problem and we’ll promptly respond.

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We’re coming to you this fall:Philadelphia Oct. 6 • Atlanta Oct. 10

Denver Oct. 20 • Berkeley Oct. 25

Portland Oct. 28 • Detroit Nov. 10

Cleveland Nov. 18 • San Francisco Nov. 20

Los Angeles Nov. 21 • Washington Dec. 1 Phoenix Dec. 4 • New York Dec. 11

Here’s just some of what you’ll learn:• Think through precisely what you mean to say.• Gain the reader’s attention on page one.• Make the structure of your writing overt.• Avoid common detractors from credibility.• Write and speak with greater confidence.

The acknowledged authority on legal writing.

A Manual OnLegal Style

By Bryan A. GarnerEDITOR IN CHIEF

BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY

THIRD EDITIONThe Redbook SeminarUsing a Manual on Legal Style

Making Your CaseThe Art of Persuading Judges

PLUS

Advanced

Legal Writing

& EditingAbridged Edition

A LawProseSM Seminar

presented by

Bryan A. Garner

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Advanced Legal Writing & Editing

The Redbook Seminar

Making Your Case

AdvancedLegal Writing& EditingAbridged Edition

A LawProse SM Seminarpresented byBryan A. Garner

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This is the most popular CLE seminar of all time. More than 150,000 lawyers, judges, law clerks, paralegals, and others have attended since the course was first offered in 1991. Professor Garner recently gave the coursebook a complete revising and updating. In this seminar, Garner gives you the keys for writing at a truly professional level. He teaches no-nonsense ways to make the most of your writing aptitude in letters, memos, briefs, and more. Garner’s dynamic teaching style highlights dozens of tech-niques that can make all the difference. Above all, Garner shows you just what doesn’t work and why—that’s know-how he has learned from two decades of training lawyers at the country’s top law firms, at state and national courts and government agencies, and at Fortune 500

companies. He’ll teach you how to shake those bad habits that your judges universally detest. The seminar covers these essen-tial legal-writing skills:

• Open with a solid lead every time.

• Cut the clutter.• Edit to polish and brighten.• Rivet the reader’s attention to bolster

com prehension.• Wrap up convincingly. • Budget your writing time to be efficient and effective.

Every law office needs expertise—true expertise—on produc-ing first-rate documents: letters, contracts, motions, and appellate briefs. You have that, you say? Likely not: a professional editor can hardly read two consecutive sentences of law-office material without having to make obligatory edits, not merely discretion-ary ones. Errors abound, often costly ones. As professional writers, lawyers ought to be able to produce documents with the same polish as the better publishing houses. And who best to teach you? Garner was recently named Legal Reference Book Author of the Decade and has been editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary since 1994. His teaching style is every bit as honed as his writing style. Using his comprehensive restatement of legal style, The

Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, Garner will teach you to:

• Make fast and reliable deci-sions about all your legal documents.

• Cultivate a well-grounded confidence in solving edi-torial problems peculiar to legal writing.

• Produce documents that reflect well on you and your firm.

• Become more knowledgeable about the nuances of legal usage.

• Teach others in your group to achieve these same goals.

Your text is the hardcover bestseller Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, in which Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner freshly explain every important principle of persua-sion—from keen legal reasoning to polished brief-writing to effective oral argument. Sometimes the coauthors don’t see eye-to-eye, and them-selves turn to advocacy in bids to persuade the readers. In a riveting interactive part of the session, you get to vote on whose argument prevails. Garner’s presentation, interspersed with video clips of his coauthor and other judges, brings the book a bold vividness that will help you retain and apply the principles of advocacy that win in court. You’ll learn:

• the general principles of argumentation, from the ancient art of rhetoric to the modern 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;

• briefing skills, from the writ-ing process to structuring your argument, plus knowing the parts of a brief and what each must contain; and

• oral argument, from the preparation stage through how to react when the judge interrupts your planned presentation.

The award-winning book was featured on 60 Minutes and elsewhere.



By Bryan A. GarnerEDITOR IN CHIEFBLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY

THIRD EDITION

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Seminar Information

TuiTion is payable by check or online with a credit card before the day of the class. Registration at the door is an extra $15 per seminar. Limited need-based financial aid is available; for information see our website.

CLE CrEdiT has been applied for in states where seminars are held. Out-of-state attorneys should contact their state Bar and apply for credit directly. You’ll receive an official certificate of attendance at the seminar.

TrAnsFEr of your registration to another location on this brochure, or to another member of your firm or company, will be approved with 24 hours’ notice before the seminar date.

CAnCELLATion with refund (less a $50 enrollment charge) will be approved if we receive 7 days’ notice before the original seminar date. No refund will be made for late cancellation or absence.

rEFrEsHmEnTs will be available during morning and afternoon breaks.

room TEmpErATurEs vary, so please bring a sweater or jacket to keep you warm and comfortable.

Get solid answers to all your questions about writing motions and briefs, including:

I want a collaborative team. How can I reduce the editorial conflicts?

Is it really possible to deliver constructive criticism without provoking anger and resentment?

What are the most useful assignments that juniors can carry out in the lead-up to writing a brief?

What kinds of office protocols can ensure that we always turn out first-rate work product?

What kinds of law-school teaching really need to be unlearned?

What is the best way of having team members learn from each experience of preparing a brief?

How can we manage the brief-writing process to minimize last-minute rushing?

How can we get all our brief-writers to pursue the same editorial ends—so that editing isn’t a battle but a united, friendly effort of allies?

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About Your Teacher• Editor in chief of all current editions of Black’s Law Dictionary.• Consultant to the U.S. Judicial Conference to revise federal rules.• First person to coauthor a book with a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.• The only legal-writing authority cited by every U.S. appellate court.• Monthly columnist for the ABA Journal.• Author of more than 20 books on law and language (plus one on golf).

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THIRD EDITIONThe Redbook SeminarUsing a Manual on Legal Style

Making Your CaseThe Art of Persuading Judges

PLUS

Advanced

Legal Writing

& EditingAbridged Edition

A LawProseSM Seminar

presented by

Bryan A. Garner

www.lawprose.org





America’s #1 Legal-Writing Seminar

AdvancedLegal Writing& Editing

Bryan A. Garner SeminarsPresented by LawProse:®

Advanced Legal Writing

& Editing Advanced Legal Writing & Editing8:30 a.m.–noon





THIRD EDITION

philadelphia Oct. 6Atlanta Oct. 10denver Oct. 20Berkeley Oct. 25portland Oct. 28detroit Nov. 10Cleveland Nov. 18san Francisco Nov. 20Los Angeles Nov. 21Washington Dec. 1phoenix Dec. 4new York Dec. 11

Making Your Case3:00–4:30 p.m.

The Redbook Seminar1:00–2:30 p.m.

We’re coming to you this fall:Philadelphia Oct. 6 • Atlanta Oct. 10

Denver Oct. 20 • Berkeley Oct. 25Portland Oct. 28 • Detroit Nov. 10

Cleveland Nov. 18 • San Francisco Nov. 20Los Angeles Nov. 21 • Washington Dec. 1

Phoenix Dec. 4 • New York Dec. 11

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