‘Practical Steps to Refine Your Legal Writing’ offered online Aug. 21
The American Bar Association will present the webinar “Editing for Excellence: Practical Steps to Refine Your Legal Writing” on Thursday, August 21, from 1 to 2 p.m.
This program will discuss time-management strategies to plan for legal writing with editing in mind; implementing consistent self-editing steps before additional review of legal writing; and developing effective workflows between writers and editors to ensure an excellent work product.
Attendees will learn:
• How to develop effective schedules for major writing projects, with timelines for legal research, outlining, writing, and editing, to avoid bottlenecks in the review process.
• Practical steps and checklist tasks for effective self-editing, which should be completed before submitting drafts for additional review by editors.
• How to develop effective workflows and communication between writers and editors, to avoid bottlenecks and ensure a comprehensive review before legal writing is submitted.
• Available technology tools to streamline the editing process, detect and correct errors, and ensure an excellent work product.
Cost for the webinar is $130. To register, visit www.americanbar.org and click on “events.”
This program will discuss time-management strategies to plan for legal writing with editing in mind; implementing consistent self-editing steps before additional review of legal writing; and developing effective workflows between writers and editors to ensure an excellent work product.
Attendees will learn:
• How to develop effective schedules for major writing projects, with timelines for legal research, outlining, writing, and editing, to avoid bottlenecks in the review process.
• Practical steps and checklist tasks for effective self-editing, which should be completed before submitting drafts for additional review by editors.
• How to develop effective workflows and communication between writers and editors, to avoid bottlenecks and ensure a comprehensive review before legal writing is submitted.
• Available technology tools to streamline the editing process, detect and correct errors, and ensure an excellent work product.
Cost for the webinar is $130. To register, visit www.americanbar.org and click on “events.”
WBA’s Literary Ladies Book Club kicks off Sept. 9
The Women’s Bar Association (WBA), Oakland County region of the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, is proud to present the first Literary Ladies Book Club meeting of the season on Thursday, September 9, at 6 p.m.
To kick off the book club this year, the WBA will be reading “The Women” by Kristin Hannah, author of “The Nightingale” and “The Four Winds.”
In “The Women,” twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1965 and heads to Vietnam. In war, she meets?and becomes one of?the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost. War, however, is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
This novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism will offer the Book Club the opportunity to discuss a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.
Anyone interested in attending this event or joining the Literary Ladies for the monthly Book Club in the future should email Natasha Rao at natasha-rao@hotmail.com.
To kick off the book club this year, the WBA will be reading “The Women” by Kristin Hannah, author of “The Nightingale” and “The Four Winds.”
In “The Women,” twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1965 and heads to Vietnam. In war, she meets?and becomes one of?the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost. War, however, is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
This novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism will offer the Book Club the opportunity to discuss a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.
Anyone interested in attending this event or joining the Literary Ladies for the monthly Book Club in the future should email Natasha Rao at natasha-rao@hotmail.com.
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