Legal Writing Week

Legal Writing Week is one of FELTG’s newest and most popular courses. This writing-based workshop program is now expanded to cover five days of essential information, and focuses on legal writing in federal sector employment law cases.  This session starts you off with the fundamentals of good legal writing and then builds on those basics with sessions targeted to material organization, persuasive factual narratives, writing for your audience and drafting specific documents for the MSPB and EEOC. Analysis and evaluation of writing exercises allows you to receive immediate feedback from the experts.

Feedback from fall, 2011 attendee:

“"The instructors are engaging, knowledgeable and informative. I truly enjoyed the training and learned more in three days than I thought possible.”
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Location
The MAA Carriage House at 1781 Church St., NW, Washington, DC 20036
(near Dupont Circle).

Who Should Attend
Attorneys, EEO specialists and professionals, employee and labor relations specialists, human resources generalists, union representatives, supervisors and managers.

Topics
Legal writing skills for MSPB and EEOC forums.

Instructors
Ernest Hadley, William Wiley and Deborah Hopkins

Status
Accepting Registrations -- download Registration Form

Tuition
Five days = $1950
Four days = $1570
Three days = $1220
Two days = $850
One day = $470

Legal Writing Daily Agenda

MONDAY, June 18, Legal Writing I -- The Basics: Legal writing and citation formats, argumentative approaches, writing from the reader’s perspective, organizational logic, word choice and structure, legal terms and court structure. Workshops: Spin Words, Speed Ball Exercise & Spin an Issue, Putting it All Together

TUESDAY, June 19, Legal Writing II -- Writing for Your Audience: Defining and distinguishing claims, defenses and issues, the factual narrative, identification of material facts, and persuasion. Workshops: Defining Claims, Writing the Agency Factual Statement, Writing the Employee Factual Statement

WEDNESDAY, June 20, Legal Writing III -- Writing for Your Audience (con't.): Educating the reader, analyzing the evidence, organizing the arguments, distinguishing cases. Workshops: State the Rule, Writing the Analysis.  

THURSDAY, June 21, Legal Writing IV -- Writing for the MSPB and EEOC: Charges and penalties, drafting proposed discipline and decision documents. Workshops: Writing a Notice of Proposed Discipline, Writing a Final Agency Decision.

FRIDAY, June 22, Legal Writing V -- Writing for the MSPB and EEOC (con't.): Motion practice and summary judgment, MSPB petitions for review and EEOC appeals, deconstruction and critique of final decisions, editing your work. Workshop: Deconstruction of a Final Decision