CPCS approved for 2 CLE hours for the Youth Advocacy Division (YAD), Adult Criminal Trial and Post-Conviction panels.
Lawyers are professional writers, and written advocacy requires a mastery of both the art and the science of persuasion. This program will explain the principles of persuasion that underlie effective written advocacy, then give participants specific tools and techniques for implementing these principles in writing persuasive memoranda and briefs.
This program will be helpful for both trial and appellate attorneys. The persuasive strategies that are effective in appeals are also effective in trial level memoranda; and trial lawyers should always write with the possibility of an appeal in mind.
Julie A. Baker, Esq., will outline specific writing strategies, tactics, tips and techniques. She spends her time in the trenches as Appellate Counsel at the respected criminal defense firm, J. W. Carney, Jr. and Associates, and in the classroom as Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing at Suffolk Law School.
Justice Barbara A. Link and Justice John M. Greaney of the SJC will join Justice Scott L. Kafker and Justice Ariane D. Vuono of the Appeal Court to provide participants an insighful “View from the Bench.” This judicial roundtable, led by a Senior Attorney at the Appeals Court, Lynn S. Muster, will offer real-world insight on what persuades judges—and what doesn’t.
Online registration is encouraged. Convenience phone registrations will be charged a $10 processing fee. For questions on group discounts, special billing, program content, out-of-state CLE credits, and general CLE information call Andrew Hyland at 617-226-1361.
Registrants for this program acknowledge that during the program their photographic or videographic images may be incidentally taken; registrants agree that the submission of their registrations for this program constitutes their written consent to the Social Law Library’s use of any such image in print and online materials solely for promotion of the Library’s noncommercial CLE seminars and other educational events and activities.
Cost: $50 SLL members and CPCS Staff, bar advocates and prosecutors; $75 all others.
Same day registrations are $5.00 extra. Registration fees are non-refundable.