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
In the world of federal sector EEO, we often see cases where agencies lose appeals of EEO decisions not on merit but because of the way the appeal is written, or breach settlement agreements over ambiguously written clauses. Or, what about a motion for summary judgment that should have been granted because there truly were no disputes of material fact, yet wasn’t granted because of a technicality in how the motion was written? These things happen too often – but they shouldn’t. Luckily, we have a fix for these mistakes!
Join FELTG for this writing-based workshop program that focuses specifically on effective legal writing in federal sector EEO cases. After a quick overview of the fundamentals of good legal writing we will build on those basics with sessions targeted to material organization, framing claims, neutral and persuasive writing, and drafting specific documents for the EEOC, including Letters of Acceptance/Dismissal, Final Agency Decisions, Motions for Summary Judgment, Appeals, and EEO Settlement Agreements. Analysis and evaluation of writing exercises allows you to receive immediate feedback from our instructors. Come prepared to write!
Sessions are held daily from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Instructors
Katherine Atkinson, Meghan Droste
Tuesday
EEO Writing I: The Foundation: Legal writing and citation formats; argumentative approaches; writing from the reader’s perspective; plain language; defining and distinguishing claims, defenses and issues; fixing fragmentation.
Wednesday
EEO Writing II: Neutral Legal Writing: educating the reader; Writing Letters of Acceptance/Dismissal; understanding settlement in federal sector EEO cases; parts of a settlement agreement; drafting legally enforceable settlement agreements; mistakes to avoid.
Thursday
EEO Writing III: Persuasive Legal Writing: Identification of material facts and persuasion; analyzing the evidence, organizing the arguments; distinguishing cases; writing Final Agency Decisions; motion practice and summary judgment; writing an effective Motion for Summary Judgment; OFO briefs; EEOC appeals.
Pricing
Most people attend the full three days, but you may opt out of any days you don’t plan to attend.
- 3 days = $1340
- 2 days = $950
- 1 day = $520
Metro, Parking, Directions
Metro: The International Student House (1825 R Street NW) is located in convenient proximity to the Red Line. Exit Metro at the Dupont Circle station and proceed to the Q Street/North exit. Head north (you will come off the escalator facing north; if you use the elevator take a left after exiting) on Connecticut Avenue to R Street NW (approximately one block). Turn right onto R Street NW. Cross 19th Street NW and the International Student House will be on the left side of the street approximately halfway down the block. If you reach the Bikeshare dock, you’ve gone too far. Approximate walk time: 7-10 minutes.
Parking: Street parking is metered and is limited to two hours, unless you have a Washington, DC, Zone 2 parking pass. The closest parking garage is at 11 Dupont Circle, approximately two blocks from the International Student House (1825 R Street NW). Approximate walk time: 5 -7 minutes.
From the Carlyle Hotel: After exiting the Carlyle Hotel, turn left. At the first intersection, R Street NW, turn right. Proceed approximately one block. The International Student House (1825 R Street NW) will be on your right, just past the Bikeshare dock. Approximate walk time: 4-6 minutes.
Instructor
Course Description
1.5
Effective writing 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 attorney at law Meghan Droste 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, Ms. Droste will show you how to:
- Organize for the motion
- Draft the motion using IRAC (and explain why IRAC isn’t just for law school exams)
- Edit 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’ve never been to law school, this is a session EEO practitioners won’t want to miss. Register your site today.
Price
Early Bird Tuition: $275 per site (registration submitted by February 25) Standard Tuition: $305 per site (registration submitted February 26 or later)
Teleworkers may be added to a main site registration for $35 each, on a space-available basis.