This entertaining and practical nuts-and-bolts seminar, taught by a leading advocacy instructor, explains effective objective and persuasive legal writing from thinking about a project through submitting it. Attendees will learn legal writing's do's, don'ts, controversies, and ethics. The components of a brief will be analyzed: questions presented, facts, summaries of arguments, and arguments. The seminar will also detail easy-to-learn but hard-to-forget elements and philosophy of good legal writing, including Plain English, style, clarity, concision, storytelling, organization, sentence and paragraph structure, citing, footnotes, quoting, format, legal method, and rhetoric.