Lawyers are writers. We write to inform, and we write to persuade. This presentation will showcase strategies to improve your legal writing that will be relevant to both developing and expert legal writers. These strategies will acknowledge the existence, lure, and power of Gen AI.
Brief Bio: Karen Sneddon is Dean and Professor of Law at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia. Dean Sneddon teaches, writes, and presents in the areas of legal writing and trusts & estates. After graduating summa cum laude from Louisiana State University and summa cum laude from Tulane Law School, she practiced in the area of trusts & estates at a law firm in New York City. She served as a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School before joining the law school faculty at Mercer University School of Law in 2006. She has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and taught a short course in Comparative Succession at ELTE Law, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. Prior to her appointment as dean, she served as associate dean for faculty research and development and professor of law. Since 2008, she has co-authored the regular column “Writing Matters” for the Georgia Bar Journal with Professor David Hricik.
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