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eSupplement to the 42nd Annual Page Keeton Civil Litigation Conference
Contains material from Sep 2014 to May 2018
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Session 2: How to Improve Your Brief Writing - Explore techniques for sharpening your persuasive focus while complying with your ethical obligations when writing briefs.
Session 3: Six (or More) Techniques for Readable, Persuasive Sentences - Master sentence-level techniques that can help legal writers create readable, persuasive sentences. Learn to recognize, describe, and appropriately use or avoid techniques including length, subordination, dangling elements, nominalizations, correlative conjunctions, compound prepositions, and more.
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Tracy W. McCormack
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Session 1
—59 mins
Ethical Considerations and Advocacy In Non-Traditional Settings (Sep 2014)
Explore the ethical issues and duties in a litigation world where ADR is now the norm and jury verdicts are the exception.
Originally presented: Sep 2014 UT Law CLE WEBCAST: Ethical Rules and Considerations
Tracy W. McCormack,
The University of Texas School of Law - Austin, TX
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Kamela Bridges
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Session 2
—31 mins
How to Improve Your Brief Writing (May 2018)
Explore techniques for sharpening your persuasive focus while complying with your ethical obligations when writing briefs.
Originally presented: May 2018 Conference on Criminal Appeals
Kamela Bridges,
The University of Texas School of Law - Austin, TX
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Wayne Schiess
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Session 3
—32 mins
Six (or More) Techniques for Readable, Persuasive Sentences (May 2018)
Address sentence-level techniques that can help legal writers create readable, persuasive sentences. Learn to recognize, describe, and appropriately use or avoid techniques including length, subordination, dangling elements, nominalizations, correlative conjunctions, compound prepositions, and more.
Originally presented: May 2018 Conference on Criminal Appeals
Wayne Schiess,
The University of Texas School of Law - Austin, TX