In the Beginning: The Art of Crafting Preliminary Statements

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 | 6:00 PM EDT - 8:05 PM EDT

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This presentation will discuss how to incorporate a narrative theme and legal theory of the case into a Preliminary Statement. We will look at examples from briefs and judicial opinions that illustrate how to concisely highlight the strengths of a client's case and low light its weaknesses, and then work with a hypothetical case to consider how to address the difficulties of drafting a preliminary statement when the client is unsympathetic or his/her case has weak facts or law. Using the analogy of a one minute presentation to a literary agent, we will consider how to set out key facts and law as briefly as possible, integrating logos, pathos and ethos into a short document.

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This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2.5 hours of total CLE credit.

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