Advanced Legal Translation and Memo Writing

This resource explains two dominant ideas in professional writing that will help you produce persuasive, usable resumes, letters, memos, reports, white papers, etc. This section outlines the concepts of rhetorical awareness and user-centered design, provides examples of these ideas, and it contains a glossary of terms. This course will handle the two legal systems (common & civil law systems) and their impact on legal writing and translation. The course will be structured in a practical, “hands-on” manner, offering the attendee’s constructive critiques of their writing style, grammar, spelling, and legal analysis, regularly and directly. It is anticipated that by the end of the course, each student will have fashioned a toolbox of legal writing skills enabling them to effectively engage in public discourse using the craft of legal writing.