Legal Writing and Drafting Skills

Course Info

Length: 1 Week

City: Amsterdam

Type: In Classroom

Available Dates

  • Nov-25-2024

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Course Details

Course Outline

5 days course

 
Taking the right approach
 
  • Discussion of the lawyer’s role and the importance of asking the right questions

  • Identifying and allocating risks

 

 

Drafting letters and Proofreading
 
  • Structure of a typical agreement

  • The dangers of poor drafting – how the court might interpret your drafting

 

User-friendly drafting
 
  • What does effective legal drafting look like?

  • Six techniques for producing clear, user-friendly drafting

  • Improving poor drafting

 

Drafting from scratch using precedents
 
  • A four-stage approach to drafting from scratch

  • Drafting key clauses

  • Making the most of precedents and templates

 

 “White-water drafting”

 

  • Danger areas where drafting is particularly susceptible to disputes

  • Refresher on “boilerplate” language clarifying the legal meaning (based on case law or statute) of many standard words and phrases

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