Monday, September 10, 2012

Legal Writing Skills


Synopsis

Legal Writing Skills
By
Prasanna S

       Seminar & Discussion Society, Campus Law Centre organizes a discussion to give its students a primer on being independent and productive at peripheral, and yet inescapable and time-consuming task of presenting one’s legal research work in adherence to a chosen or specified standard, format and style.
          This discussion is expected to take the following form.
-         Illustrations and demos, by using present-day productivity software suites, of accomplishing tasks such as
o   Foot-note/end-note management,
o   Generation of Index of Citations,
o   Generate of the Table of Contents & Abbreviations,
o    Preliminary data analysis,
o   General page set-up, formatting and
o   Other common mistakes and pain-points.

-         A brief introduction and discussion on “The Bluebook” system of citation.
-         An open-house discussion on other pain-points faced and/or overcome by members of the audience. 

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