LLM Legal Writing for Lay Audiences Seminar

Lawyers routinely communicate with audiences who are not trained in law, including clients and prospective clients and other target audiences through public advocacy, media commentary, and marketing. This rigorous writing course will introduce students to the fundamentals of effective, accessible writing about legal topics for such audiences (writing that can also ultimately help better legal memoranda and briefs). Students will research, write, and share both short and longer essays and other written work on legal topics geared mostly toward a general audience; students will also learn to present such work to prospective clients in client presentations and broadcast interviews. By the end of the seminar, each student will produce a long-form magazine article about a law-related subject ready to submit to a bar magazine in the jurisdiction of his or her choice. This seminar does not qualify for the upper-level writing requirement. (3 Credits).