WRITING WELL
W1: Level Up Your Writing
Over the last decade, Write.law has empowered over 10,000 lawyers and law students to improve their legal writing. Led by Professor Joe Regalia, Write.law’s training team teaches practical and proven techniques used by the best legal writers worldwide.
This course focuses on several key legal writing skills: crafting compelling narratives, structuring arguments efficiently, and selecting precise and persuasive language. By the end of the course, you’ll write with greater clarity, precision, and impact.
Format
Course
Experience
All levels
Time to complete
Two weeks
Earn
Certificate of completion
WHAT YOU GET
Course Overview
Learn the 10 Writing Principles
10 principles for persuasive writing.
It turns out that just a few principles animate all the best legal writing. Working these principles into your writing will go a long way toward elevating you among the greats.
Distill your message clearly
Help your reader understand what matters.
You’ll learn how to develop your overall message. Distilling your message down to its essence will help you communicate better and will aid your readers in understanding what matters.
Improve your writing style
Write like the world’s top advocates.
Learn techniques used by the world’s best legal writers to enhance your writing style and deliver your message with clarity and poise.
Write strong sentences
Build strong sentences that persuade.
If you’re like many legal writers, you might not give much thought to how you write sentences. But make no mistake: You’re a sentence builder. And how you do that building matters.
Choose the right words
Select the right word for every occasion.
Learn to choose concrete, active, specific words that will engage readers and leverage powerful tools like imagery and emotion.
EXPLORE THE LESSONS
Explore the Course
HOW IT WORKS
Legal Writing—Made Easy
STEP 2
Complete the lessons
STEP 4
Claim your certificate
FAQ
How else can we help?
We currently only sell courses through Write.law subscription plans, which give you access to courses for as long as you have an active plan. You can buy certain courses individually—like Well-Being for Legal Professionals—through Write.law partners like Kendra Brodin.
Yes! You can cancel your plan at anytime. Your plan will auto-renew until you cancel.
Yes. When you sign up for a plan, it will automatically renew until you cancel it.
Absolutely. We have volume discounts for law firms, law schools, and other organizations. Contact us for more information.
Yes! We offer a 50% discount for students who sign up with their school emails. Visit our student pricing page to get started.
Part of our mission is to make legal skills training accessible to as many people as possible. If you really can't afford one of our products, please contact us and let us know your situation and what products interest you. We’ll do everything we can to help.
