Advanced Document Drafting
Date/Time
Online
1.30pm to 4.45pm AEST
About the
College of Law Courses
This program is delivered by TEN The Education Network partner - The College of Law.
Take your drafting skills to the next level.
Are you looking to refine and build on your drafting skills to produce powerful, precise, direct and accurate legal documents?
Join us in our half-day live webinar and you will:
- Master different planning techniques to produce logical and well-structured documents
- Build on your skillset so you can tailor your communications in ways that are client focused and unambiguous
- Fine-tune and test your abilities through practical drafting exercises
Reviews from past attendees:
- “Very good seminar – I got what I came for”
- “Enjoyed the seminar. Found the handouts helpful”
- “Excellent content and delivery!”
- “Excellent course, very practical and enjoyable”
Who should attend
This webinar is suitable for lawyers wishing to improve their drafting skills.
CPD information
3 CPD Points (professional skills)
What we cover
1.30pm: Login/Welcome
1.35pm: Drafting contracts in a commercial context
Speaker: Chris Bland, Principal, Legal Tradecraft Consulting
Drafting in the business context:
- Aims and objectives
- The drafting process from initial instructions to document execution
- Developing drafting technique
- Use of precedents
- Practical drills on style, active & passive voice. sentence length etc
- Drafting and commercial risk allocation
- Capturing the business relationship and terms of agreement: the drafting translational skill
- Six top tips for stress testing your drafting
3pm: Break
3.15pm: Contractual interpretation in 2024 and beyond
Speaker: Alex Ottaway, Special Counsel, HWL Ebsworth
- Current approach of the High Court
- Ambiguity
- Inconsistency
- Correction of mistakes by construction
- Contractual maxims; the modern approach
- Interpretation of specific types of contract
- The future of contractual interpretation
4.15pm: Drafting exercise and discussion
4.45pm: Close