The law is complex enough; our prose must not add complexity. In my 90-minute online workshops, small groups of attorneys rework real passages from briefs — condensing bloated phrases, purging legalese, and minimizing abstraction.
Each 90-minute session is live on Zoom and capped at 20 people so everyone gets real-time feedback on their edits. You’ll leave with a handout summarizing the techniques we cover.
Every session uses new examples, so you’re welcome to return as often as you like. Sessions cost $145 and run from noon–1:30 p.m. Pacific:
One participant wrote: “I was really grateful for you sharing your firm’s example briefs, recommending books, and being so willing to answer questions. It was also really fun getting to be around a bunch of legal writing nerds!”
Workshop exercises based on Elegant Legal Writing will help you:
Write reader-friendly sentences
Cut information readers don’t need
Eliminate redundancies and unnecessary modifiers
Convert zombie nouns into action verbs
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About Ryan McCarl
Ryan McCarl is a litigation attorney and author of Elegant Legal Writing. Before co-founding Rushing McCarl LLP, McCarl taught advanced legal writing and served as an AI Law and Policy research fellow at the UCLA School of Law. He has been invited to present about writing, argumentation, and AI to audiences including the Appellate Judges Education Institute, the ABA Litigation Section, and the Texas Office of the Attorney General along with private law firms.
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