Essentials of Persuasion: Appellate Legal Writing in Washington and Beyond

Please join an all‐star lineup for a day devoted to honing your brief writing skills. Program Chair Ken Masters has assembled an outstanding faculty consisting of members of the judiciary, the appellate bar, and the law school faculty, each of whom will share strategies and techniques for appellate writing that does what it is meant to do: educate and persuade. Topics include: • How the structure of the brief aids persuasion; • Telling your client's story in the statement of the case; • The most effective types of arguments for judges & commissioners; • Visual legal writing ‐ persuasion with pictures; • Appellate motions practice ‐ persuading the Gatekeepers; and Ethics on appeal.

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