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More Effective Writing Makes More Effective Lawyers (October 29 & 30, 2025)
Credit(s):
7 General (50-minute hour)
6 General (60-minute hour)
Course Number:
E18102511W
Original Program Date:
October 29, 2025
Duration:
3 hours 15 minutes
Date:
October 29, 2025 9:30 AM - 12:45 PM ((GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Please click above for a short preview of the class, which will run on October 29 & 30, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. each day.
This program is not eligible for D.C. Bar CLE passport use
Credits: 6.0 general credit hours
Description: Knowing the law is essential – but so is being able to communicate effectively about it. That can be challenging. That can be stressful.
Rick Horowitz can help.
Sign up for this innovative class and explore the fundamentals, and the critical details, of creating clear, well-organized, persuasive legal documents. Examine good (and not-so-good) writing to see what worked, what didn’t, and why. Re-examine some of the assumptions and habits that often lead lawyers down less-than-productive writing paths.
Briefs, memos, client letters, even daily correspondence – they'll all benefit from a deeper understanding of what goes into successful legal writing. Among the topics we’re likely to discuss:
What should you include, and what can you leave out?
Is your writing flexible enough to take on a variety of documents – and readers?
Are there ways to overcome “blank-screen panic”?
Shouldn’t your brief be a little more. .. brief?
Are you OK with writing as a team sport?
Can you benefit from the promise – and avoid the perils – of AI?
And do you really need all that legalese?
Rick Horowitz is founder and Wordsmith in Chief of Prime Prose, LLC, leading highly popular – and highly practical – legal writing workshops coast to coast. A graduate of Brandeis University and NYU School of Law and a former lawyer himself, he's worked with state and local bar associations, government agencies, and a variety of corporations, nonprofits and law firms.
His goals? Clearer, crisper, better-organized, less jargony, more effective legal writing. And less stress.
Sign up and see for yourself.
You must register for both sessions.
Faculty: Rick Horowitz, PrimeProse LLC
Fees: $279 D.C. Bar Communities Members, $289 D.C. Bar Members, $299 Government and Nonprofit Attorneys, and $319 Others
The D.C. Bar CLE Program now offers discounted group registration rates! For more information, contact the CLE Office at CLE@dcbar.org or 202-626-3488.
7 General (50-minute hour)
6 General (60-minute hour)
Registration Fees
Early Registration
Standard
Non-Member
N/A
$319.00
D.C. Bar Member
N/A
$289.00
D.C. Bar Regular Community Member
N/A
$279.00
Government & Nonprofit Attorneys
Early Registration
Standard
Non-Member
N/A
$299.00
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