Legal Writing Week is a writing-based workshop program that focuses specifically on effective legal writing in federal sector employment law cases. We’ll start you off with the fundamentals of good legal writing and then build on those basics with sessions targeted to material organization, persuasive factual narratives, writing for your audience and drafting specific documents for the MSPB and EEOC. Analysis and evaluation of writing exercises allows you to receive immediate feedback from our instructors.
Instructors
Deborah Hopkins, Ernest Hadley
Daily Agenda
Monday
Legal Writing I — The Basics: Legal writing and citation formats, argumentative approaches, writing from the reader’s perspective, organizational logic, word choice and structure, legal terms and court structure. Workshops: Spin Words, Speed Ball Exercise & Spin an Issue, Putting it All Together
Tuesday
Legal Writing II — Writing for Your Audience: Defining and distinguishing claims, defenses and issues, the factual narrative, identification of material facts, and persuasion. Workshops: Defining Claims, Writing the Agency Factual Statement, Writing the Employee Factual Statement
Wednesday
Legal Writing III — Writing for Your Audience (con’t.): Educating the reader, analyzing the evidence, organizing the arguments, distinguishing cases. Workshops: State the Rule, Writing the Analysis.
Thursday
Legal Writing IV — Writing for the MSPB and EEOC: Charges and penalties, drafting proposed discipline and decision documents. Workshops: Writing a Notice of Proposed Discipline, Writing a Final Agency Decision.
Friday
Legal Writing V — Writing for the MSPB and EEOC (con’t.): Motion practice and summary judgment, MSPB petitions for review and EEOC appeals, deconstruction and critique of final decisions, editing your work. Workshop: Deconstruction of a Final Decision.
Pricing
Most people attend the full training week, but you may opt out of any days you don’t plan to attend.
- 5 days = $2050
- 4 days = $1680
- 3 days = $1290
- 2 days = $910
- 1 day = $490
Instructor
Course Description
Effective writing in federal sector employment law directly impacts whether you win or lose a case before the EEOC. One of the most powerful tools to use in EEO complaints is the Motion for Summary Judgment. Join FELTG’s Executive Director and attorney at law Deborah Hopkins as she spends 90 minutes taking you through the best practices you need to draft a strong motion that will withstand even the harshest scrutiny.
After setting out the basics on summary judgment procedures and standards, discussion topics will include:
- Organizing for the motion
- Drafting the motion using IRAC – and why IRAC isn’t just for law school exams
- Editing your work
Participants will also deconstruct segments from sample summary judgment motions, and will learn how to spot strengths and weaknesses throughout the writing process. Whether you’ve been an attorney for years, or you’re a writer who’s never been to law school, this is a session EEO practitioners won’t want to miss. Register your site today.
Price
$270 per site
Instructors
Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga
Course Description
Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.
Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.
- February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
- February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
- February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
- February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
- March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
- March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
Price
$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!
Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.
Instructors
Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga
Course Description
Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.
Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.
- February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
- February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
- February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
- February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
- March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
- March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
Price
$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!
Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.
Instructors
Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga
Course Description
Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.
Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.
- February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
- February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
- February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
- February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
- March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
- March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
Price
$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!
Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.
Instructors
Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga
Course Description
Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.
Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.
- February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
- February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
- February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
- February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
- March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
- March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
Price
$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!
Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.
Instructors
Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga
Course Description
Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.
Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.
- February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
- February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
- February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
- February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
- March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
- March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
Price
$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!
Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.
Instructors
Deborah Hopkins, William Wiley, Barbara Haga
Course Description
Whether you’ve been to law school or not, legal writing in federal sector employment law is a specialized craft, and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. This webinar series will help practitioners focus on the skills needed to produce effective, defensible, legally-sound documents in the federal sector including disciplinary letters, performance plans, and summary judgment motions. Sample language, templates and documents provided during the webinars will give the attendee templates to use long after the series concludes.
Sessions will be held Wednesdays from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. eastern. Spend an hour a week with FELTG and start changing – and simplifying – the way you write for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA.
- February 1: Legal Writing for the MSPB, EEOC and FLRA: An Overview
- February 8: Framing Charges and Drafting Proposed Discipline
- February 15: The Douglas Factor Analysis and Writing the Decision
- February 22: Writing Performance Improvement Plans that Work
- March 1: Working with Performance Standards: Creating and Editing
- March 8: Writing Effective Motions for Summary Judgment
Price
$220 per site per session, or register for all six webinars by January 25 and pay only $1240!
Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $25 each, on a space-available basis.
Sessions are held daily from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Instructors
Deborah Hopkins, Ernest Hadley
Daily Agenda
Monday
Legal Writing I — The Basics: Legal writing and citation formats, argumentative approaches, writing from the reader’s perspective, organizational logic, word choice and structure, legal terms and court structure. Workshops: Spin Words, Speed Ball Exercise & Spin an Issue, Putting it All Together
Tuesday
Legal Writing II — Writing for Your Audience: Defining and distinguishing claims, defenses and issues, the factual narrative, identification of material facts, and persuasion. Workshops: Defining Claims, Writing the Agency Factual Statement, Writing the Employee Factual Statement
Wednesday
Legal Writing III — Writing for Your Audience (con’t.): Educating the reader, analyzing the evidence, organizing the arguments, distinguishing cases. Workshops: State the Rule, Writing the Analysis.
Thursday
Legal Writing IV — Writing for the MSPB and EEOC: Charges and penalties, drafting proposed discipline and decision documents. Workshops: Writing a Notice of Proposed Discipline, Writing a Final Agency Decision.
Friday
Legal Writing V — Writing for the MSPB and EEOC (con’t.): Motion practice and summary judgment, MSPB petitions for review and EEOC appeals, deconstruction and critique of final decisions, editing your work. Workshop: Deconstruction of a Final Decision.
Pricing
Most people attend the full training week, but you may opt out of any days you don’t plan to attend.
- 5 days = $2070
- 4 days = $1700
- 3 days = $1310
- 2 days = $930
- 1 day = $510