The Legal Writing Launch Course
Course Overview
Legal Writing Launch Course is a self-paced legal writing course, designed to transform your legal writing skills ASAP!
Students will learn to:
- Employ the analytical structure of Conclusion, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion (CRAC). (CRAC is based upon IRAC)
- Use Power-Packed Paragraphs™
- Draft legal documents, so that the reader can find the document easily accessible
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write.
Let them think you were born that way.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
By the completion of the Legal Writing Launch Course, students will gain the skillset to draft:
- Legal memoranda
- Legal correspondence (demand, opinion, and informational letters)
- Motions
- Briefs (trial and appellate briefs)
- Other legal documents (e.g., complaints, settlement agreements)
The intended audience is:
- New lawyers
- Students who have failed the Bar Exam (especially the New York State Bar and California State Bar Exam)
- Law students
- LLM students (Master of Laws) (with LLM Degrees or seeking LLM Degrees)
- Pre-law students
- Practicing paralegals
- Other professionals in law-related fields–Human Resources, Regulatory Compliance or Risk Management
Students will learn:
- To perform legal writing in a practical manner
- To write using correct grammar
Students will learn by:
- Completing short and targeted readings
- Watching personalized educational videos
- Performing written assignments (with the instructor’s feedback).
This Course is not a substitute for law school or a paralegal program. Nor, does this Course encourage in any way the unauthorized practice of law. And, this is not a Bar review course or a Bar tutorial. The Course is intended to enhance the learning in these other schools, programs, and tutorials.