Persuasive Writing...“Bryan Garner is funny, eloquent, academic, persuasive.” —Los Angeles Persuasive Writing Bryan A. Garner’s Fall 2013 Seminars About Your Teacher (Professor

“Bryan Garner is funny, eloquent, academic, persuasive.”—Los Angeles

Persuasive Writing Bryan A. Garner’sFall 2013 Seminars

About Your Teacher(Professor Bryan A. Garner)

• Editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary.

• Consultant to U.S. Judicial Conference to revise federal rules.

• First person ever to be coauthor with a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

• The only legal-writing authority cited by every appellate court in the U.S.

• Monthly columnist for ABA Journal.

• Author of more than 20 books on law and language (+one on golf).

Advanced Legal Writing & Editing

8:30 a.m.–noon

The Redbook SeminarUsing A Manual on Legal Style

1:00–2:30 p.m.

Making Your CaseThe Art of Persuading Judges

3:00–4:30 p.m.

Did you know?1. Your writing ability dramatically affects

your income over time?

2. The way you’re writing may be ham-pering your career?

3. Writers are made, not born—and you can become much more effective?

4. There’s a simple way to gain credibility on page one?

5. LawProse seminars reflect the know-how acquired from more than 20 years of training judges from all 50 states?

The acknowledged authority on legal writing.

A Manual OnLegal Style

By Bryan A. GarnerEDITOR IN CHIEF

BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY

THIRD EDITION

Advanced Legal Writing

& Editing

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PortlandWEDNESDAY, OCT. 23

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SeattleFRIDAY, OCT. 25

Hyatt at Olive 8; 1635 8th Ave.; Seattle, WA 98101; 206‑695‑1234.

DenverMONDAY, OCT. 28

The Westin Denver Downtown; 1672 Lawrence St.; Denver, CO 80202; 303‑572‑9100.

PhoenixWEDNESDAY, NOV. 6

Arizona Biltmore; 2400 E. Missouri Ave.; Phoenix, AZ 85016; 602‑955‑6600.

San DiegoTUESDAY, NOV. 12

The Westin San Diego; 400 W. Broadway; San Diego, CA 92101; 619‑239‑4500.

San FranciscoFRIDAY, NOV. 15

The Fairmont San Francisco; 950 Mason St.; San Francisco, CA 94108; 415‑772‑5000.

Los AngelesTUESDAY, NOV. 19

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WashingtonMONDAY, DEC. 2

W Washington D.C.; 515 15th Street NW; Washington, DC 20004; 202‑661‑2400.

New YorkTUESDAY, DEC. 10

The Helmsley Park Lane Hotel; 36 Central Park South; New York, NY 10019; 212‑371‑4000.

Advanced Legal Writing & Editing

8:30 a.m.–noon

This is the most popular CLE seminar of all time—since the course was first of‑fered in 1991 more than 150,000 lawyers, judges, law clerks, paralegals, and others have attended. Bryan Garner recently gave the course‑book a complete revision and update. In this seminar, Garner gives you the keys for writing at a truly professional level, including these essential writing skills: •Openingwithasolidleadeverytime.•Cuttingtheclutter.•Editingtopolishandbrighten.•Rivetingthereader’sattentiontobolster

comprehension.•Wrappingupconvincinglytoclosethesale(you’resellingideas).

•Budgetingyourwritingtimetobeefficientand effective.

Every law office needs expertise—true expertise—on producing first‑rate docu‑ments: letters, contracts, motions, and appellate briefs. You have that, you say? Likely not: errorsabound,oftencostlyones.Garner’sseenthem,eveninthebestfirms’workproduct. Using the new third edition of his com‑prehensive restatement of legal style, The Redbook, Garner will teach you to:• Make fast and reliable decisions about all

your legal documents. •Cultivateconfidenceinsolvingeditorial

problems peculiar to legal writing. •Producedocumentsthatreflectwellon

you and your firm.•Becomemoreknowledgeableaboutthe

nuances of legal usage.

Your text is the hardcover best‑seller Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, in which Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner freshly explain every important principle of persuasion—from keen legal reasoning to polished brief‑writ‑ingtoeffectiveoralargument.You’lllearn:•Thegeneralprinciplesofargumentation,

from the ancient art of rhetoric to the modern rules of court, with appeals to reason and moderation.

•Legalreasoning,includingthecanonsof construction, the relative weight of precedent, and the importance of an explicit issue statement.

•Briefingskills,fromthewritingprocesstostructuring your argument.

•Oralargumentation,frompreparationthrough how to react when the judge interrupts your planned presentation.

The Redbook Seminar: Using A Manual on Legal Style

1:00–2:30 p.m.

Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges

3:00–4:30 p.m.

CALIFORNIA—AttorneyswhowishtoremovetheirnamefromliststheStateBarprovidestoqualifiedoutsideentitiesmaydosobyloggingontoMemberLoginonthehomepageoftheStateBar’swebsite.AfterregisteringwithMy State Bar Profile, go to “Change my address, phone numbers, and opt‑out preference,” and change your Opt‑out preferences. Members may also e‑mail their opt‑out request to [email protected], or by calling the Member Services Center, 1‑888‑800‑3400. Members who choose to opt out will not receive mailings about State Bar‑sponsored member benefits such as attorney insurance program offerings, MCLE provider programs and a variety of professional discounts.

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for:•BryanGarner’sCLE webinars, always

available at your convenience, on your office desktop or your laptop anywhere.

•Garner’svideo interviews with seven Supreme Court Justices, and much more.

•Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day, free in your in‑box every weekday.

•Informationaboutlimitedfinancial support available based on individual needs.

TUITION (see registration form) ispayable by check or online with a credit card before the day of the class. At‑the‑door tuition is an extra $15 per seminar.

REGISTRATION may be complet‑ed online at www.lawprose.org. Or send your check and the regis‑tration form to our office.

CLE CREDIT has been applied for in states where seminars are held. Out‑of‑state attorneys should con‑tact their state Bar or CLE accred‑iting agency and apply for credit directly.You’llreceiveanofficialcer‑tificate of attendance.

TRANSFER of your registration to another location on this brochure, or to another member of your firm or company, will be approved if we receive24hours’noticebeforetheseminar date.

CANCELLATION with refund (less a$50enrollmentcharge)willbeap‑provedifwereceive7days’noticebefore the original seminar date. No refund will be made for late cancel‑lation or absence.

REFRESHMENTS will be available during the morning and afternoon breaks.

ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Please turn off your cellphone and other electronic devices before the semi‑nar starts.

JACKETS OR SWEATERS. Room temperatures vary, so bring some‑thing to keep warm if the air con‑ditioning makes you uncomfortable.

Advanced Legal Writing

& Editing

The acknowledged authority on legal writing.

A Manual OnLegal Style

By Bryan A. GarnerEDITOR IN CHIEF

BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY

THIRD EDITION

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America’s Top Firms Can’t Be WrongAtop-notchtrainer(ProfessorBryanA.Garner),comprehensivecoursebooks, and our guarantee of satisfaction ensure that a su‑perlative learning opportunity awaits you at every LawProse sem‑inar—three reasons that all the 250 largest firms have chosen us to train their lawyers. You should too. When you need skills training—and who doesn’t?—whysettleforanybutthebest? LawProsesupportsyoucontinually.Wedon’tjuststandbe‑hind our CLEs, we stand behind you. If you attend one of our seminarsandarelaterfacedwithaquestionyou’repuzzledby,tryus:describeyourproblemandwe’llpromptlyrespond.Whatother CLE provider makes that pledge? Only LawProse.

Individualized-Curriculum ProgramAt no charge, the LawProse staff (including six lawyers and twoparalegals)willevaluatethreeofyourwritingsamplesandmake specific recommendations about avenues of study most suitabletoyou.We’llreturnyourdocumentswithhandeditsby one lawyer–editor, together with a brief memo summarizing the writing and style issues on which you most need to con‑centrate. The memo will provide you with a self‑paced, guided program, including recommended online courses and outside reading that will help you. The Individualized‑Curriculum Pro‑gram is one way that LawProse gives back to the profession—by investing our time and energy in cultivating writers who wish to excel. E‑mail [email protected] for more information.

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Bryan A. Garner is editor in chief of allcurrent editions of Black’s Law Dictionaryand the author of many books and articleson legal writing, including The Elements ofLegal Style, Legal Writing in Plain English, TheRedbook: A Manual on Legal Style, and TheWinning Brief. His 879-page usage guide,Garner’s Modern American Usage, is widelyconsidered the leading authority on generalEnglish usage today.

Garner conducts more than 100 semi-nars each year on persuasive writing, legaldrafting, judicial writing, and oral argu-ment. Since the 1991 founding of his com-pany, Dallas-based LawProse Inc., he hastaught more than 93,000 lawyers andjudges throughout the United States and inmany other countries. His clients have in-cluded the United Nations, the U.S. Solici-tor General’s Office, the AdministrativeOffice of the U.S. Courts, the CaliforniaJudicial Conference, and many statesupreme courts—not to mention dozens ofFortune 500 companies and more than 200law firms.

A graduate of the University of TexasSchool of Law, Garner has taught thereand at Southern Methodist UniversityDedman School of Law. He has receivedmany awards over the years and two hon-orary LL.D.s.

To learn more about Bryan Garner andLawProse Inc., visit the company’s websiteat www.lawprose.org.

Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionaryof Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner hasproved to be a versatile and prolific writer onlegal-linguistic subjects. This compilation of hisessays shows the great breadth of his scholar-ship, covering subjects as wide-ranging aslearning to write, style, persuasion, contractualand legislative drafting, grammar, lexicography,writing in law school, writing in law practice,judicial writing, and all the literature relating tothese diverse subjects. Garner leavens his essayswith the light humor and wry wit that his read-ers have come to expect.

Some have called Garner a controversialist,and he doesn’t shrink from controversy here: hetakes aim at legal academia, at word-bunglinglaw reviews, at writers who intersperse citationswithin the main body of their writing, at judgeswho use extremely arcane words, and at themany conventions that tend to mire legal writ-ing in perpetual mediocrity.

In one of the most entertaining chapters—“Bizarreries”—Garner takes on judges who punon litigants’ names, legal writers who mangleLatin, and, in one of the most extended yet en-tertaining exchanges imaginable on such a sub-ject, people who argue that “Sincerely” is anerroneous complimentary close.

There are moving tributes to ProfessorCharles Alan Wright, Judge Thomas GibbsGee, and Sir Robert Megarry (whose last bookGarner finished). There are piquant bookreviews that damn the work of some famouswriters, such as Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots &Leaves) and the linguist Stephen Pinker, as wellas enthusiastic recommendations of books thatGarner finds meritorious.

In the final chapter, Garner collects “recom-mended sources on language and writing.” Thisselect bibliography is like no other because itguides you to seminal texts in virtually everylanguage-related field, from brief-writing toplaywriting to poetry to linguistics to generalsemantics.

In her preface, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgdeclares the book to be “a `must read’ primer”for her law clerks. Anyone with a lively interestin language, writing, and law will find this bookhard to lay aside.

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Bryan Garner has collected more than one hundred of his finest essayson writing, language, and style in this substantial anthology. The bookincludes sections on legal language and lexicography, how to writesuccessfully as a professional, and concludes with chapters on whathe calls “bizarreries”—entertaining descriptions of puns, curiosities,vocabulary use, and other hilarious writing escapades. Finally,Garner includes several tributes to great stylists, and concludeswith recommendations for making oneself a great writer, grammarian,and stylist.

In all, you'll find 104 entertaining and informative essays in each ofsixteen subject areas, including Learning to Write, Persuasive Writing,Legal Drafting, English Grammar and Usage, Legal Language, Writing inLaw School, Writing in Practice, Judicial Writing, Bizarreries, Tributesand Autobiographical Essays, Interviews, and much, much more.

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“ The correct use of language becomes more, not less,important in the age of computers. Professor Garner comes at just the right time with a clean, fresh perspective.This pocket edition of Black’s Law Dictionary has the power and intelligence to make a real difference.”

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

The Redbook Seminar1:00–2:30 p.m.

Making Your Case3:00–4:30 p.m.

Salt Lake City Sept. 25Las Vegas Sept. 27Richmond Oct. 8Atlanta Oct. 15Indianapolis Oct. 17Portland Oct. 23Seattle Oct. 25Denver Oct. 28Phoenix Nov. 6San Diego Nov. 12San Francisco Nov. 15Los Angeles Nov. 19Washington Dec. 2New York Dec. 10

The acknowledged authority on legal writing.

A Manual OnLegal Style

By Bryan A. GarnerEDITOR IN CHIEF

BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY

THIRD EDITION

Advanced Legal Writing

& Editing

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“Bryan Garner’s seminars are the most valuable things I know of to help a lawyer communicate effectively. Lawyers who strive to be effective never stop learning. I’d go again and again and again.”

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“Lawyers are bombarded by seminars. But this one I rate at the top. We get our investment back in spades.”

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“No matter how little or how much time you spend with Garner, it is time well spent.”

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