Advanced Legal Writing—Writing to Win, Featuring Steven D. Stark

A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of the May 2024 webcast, Advanced Legal Writing – Writing to Win, Featuring Steven D. Stark.

From a master teacher, a results-oriented approach to powerful legal writing that communicates, that persuades, and that wins. Join nationally renowned author and lecturer Steven D. Stark to learn how you can improve your legal writing skills! Using a series of proven techniques and simple tips that you can apply right away, he provides you with the groundwork you need to excel in written legal communications.

• Learn winning strategies for communicating to legal audiences from a former litigator and now international authority on speaking and writing skills for lawyers.
• Understand how to capture—and keep—the attention of your clients, peers, judges, and opponents.
• Create better trial and appellate motions and briefs
• Use the facts to make more compelling arguments
• Write arguments in technical fields (intellectual property, etc.)
• Edit briefs, email, memos, and motions quickly

Faculty

Steven D. Stark, a writer, teacher, lawyer, and consultant, is the author of four books, one e-book, and one poetry chapbook. He has been a commentator for CNN, National Public Radio, and the Voice of America, where his role was to try to interpret American culture to the rest of the world. A former columnist for the Boston Globe and Montreal Gazette (where he wrote about the culture of world sports), he has written extensively on American culture and politics in such publications as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and the Atlantic Monthly. A former Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, he has a vast background in the fields of legal writing, communication, and inter-cultural studies and has taught writing and speaking to thousands of lawyers, judges, business people, and government officials. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School and devotes a substantial amount of his work to public interest, human rights, and pro bono organizations all over the world.