Practice Tips for Effective Legal Writing (Update)

1h

Created on August 04, 2022

Intermediate

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Overview

Effective legal writing is essential to helping a court decide a case in your client's favor. It is, therefore, crucial to master techniques for organizing your brief and presenting your arguments to maximize your opportunity to achieve a favorable outcome. This program, presented by Howard Suskin, co-chair of Jenner & Block's Securities Litigation Practice and Class Action Defense Practice Groups, will offer practical tips and best practices from an experienced appellate advocate about how to draft briefs efficiently, effectively communicate your written advocacy to the court, and generally enhance your legal writing.

Learning Objectives:

Identify the rules of brief writing
Master techniques for writing briefs that communicate your legal arguments clearly
Avoid the pitfalls of ineffective legal writing

Faculty

Howard S. Suskin

Partner | Jenner & Block

Howard S. Suskin is a litigator with substantial first-chair experience in civil and criminal securities matters. He is co-chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice and the Class Action Practice. Individuals and businesses seek his counsel in such matters as class actions alleging securities fraud and misrepresentation claims, derivative actions claiming breach of fiduciary duty, contests for corporate control, shareholder demands for corporate books and records under Delaware General Corporate Law Section 220 and other similar state statutes, insider trading investigations and broker-dealer disputes. Mr. Suskin also counsels and represents clients regarding securities administrative and self-regulatory organization investigations and proceedings and in arbitrations.

Members of the Leading Lawyers Network have consistently recognized Mr. Suskin’s work in several areas including class actions, commercial litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and securities and venture financing law. He has been named one of the "Best Lawyers in America" for commercial litigation. Illinois Super Lawyer named him a “Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyer” eight times since 2007 and a “Top 10 Super Lawyer” in 2015. In 2010, he received the firm’s inaugural Associate Committee Mentorship Award. He has served on the firm’s Management Committee and currently serves on the Associate Development and Evaluation and Diversity & Inclusion Committees.

Mr. Suskin has published articles and spoken extensively on issues relating to class actions and securities law. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Board IQ, a Financial Times publication, has served on the Securities Editorial Board of Law 360 and serves on the faculty of Practising Law Institute. Mr. Suskin is an active member of the ABA Securities Law Committee, including serving as co-chair of the Class and Derivative Actions Subcommittee. He serves as the Chicago Bar Association’s General Counsel and is a member of its Judicial Evaluation Committee. He also serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and for securities self-regulatory organizations including FINRA, Chicago Board Options Exchange and the National Futures Association.

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