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Advanced Judicial Writing (JS 626)

May 4-7, 2009 / Reno, NV
Tuition: $985
Early Discount: $885 by 2/3/09
Conference Fee: $235

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Offered every six years

This course assists the writer of judicial documents to achieve a clear, precise, and unambiguous writing style. After this course, participants will be able to analyze a wide range of argument patterns that address legal, social, and public policy issues; identify multiple aims and audiences of judicial writing; deconstruct complex legal sentences; recognize and improve sentence patterns associated with issues, statements, findings of fact and legal conclusions; and apply principles of style. Any judge or court-connected personnel such as staff attorneys with extensive writing duties, who have previously attended the NJC’s Judicial Writing class or another NJC approved judicial writing program, are encouraged to attend.

*Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of a one-week writing course.

Qualifies for 2 credits toward the Judicial Studies degree and is an elective in the Certificate in Judicial Development, General Jurisdiction Trial Skills, Special Court Trial Skills, Administrative Law Adjudication Skills, Dispute Resolution Skills and Tribal Judicial Skills programs.

NJC Writing Courses

The NJC offers several writing courses geared toward judges.

These include:
Logic and Opinion Writing

Judicial Writing (JS 615)