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How to Succeed at Written Advocacy

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Substantive: 1.25
75 minutes
Published
2023
Presenter(s)
Marco Falco
Caroline Mandell
The Honourable Justice Lorne Sossin
Source
Toronto Lawyers Association (TLA)
Provider
CPDOnline.ca
Language
English
Length
75 minutes
Price
$349.00 plus tax

Effective written advocacy is the foundation of every legal file and is a vital skill for all lawyers regardless of practice area. Join us and you’ll learn practical tips for how to improve your written advocacy skills. You’ll receive valuable insight into how to improve written arguments from our esteemed panel, including what works and what doesn’t.

Topics of discussion include:

  • Pleadings

  • Effective vs ineffective drafting

  • Factums

  • How to open your factum

  • Importance of Audience, Purpose and Tone

  • Factums for Appeals, Motions, Applications

  • Affidavits

  • Purpose of affidavits

  • Dealing with exhibits

  • Notices (of Motion, Appeal, Cross Motions)

  • Key do’s and don’ts

Take the time to learn how to get it right and succeed!

Presenters

Marco Falco

Caroline Mandell

Caroline Mandell is a legal writing coach, working with lawyers, adjudicators, and judges at all levels and in all practice areas to polish their writing skills. She is also a member of the Ontario Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and the Ontario Health Services Appeal and Review Board. From 2007–2017, Caroline was counsel to the judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. From 2014–2018, she was also an adjunct professor of legal research and writing at the University of Toronto. Caroline has a JD and an MA from the University of Toronto and was called to the Ontario bar in 2005.

The Honourable Justice Lorne Sossin

Justice Lorne Sossin was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in November 2020. Prior to this appointment, Justice Sossin served as a judge of the Superior Court of Justice (2018-2020). Before this initial appointment, Justice Sossin served as Professor and Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, at York University (2010-2018). Previously, Justice Sossin was a Professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto (2002-2010) and a former Associate Dean (2004-2007). He served as the inaugural Director of the U. of T. Centre for the Legal Profession (2008-2010).

Justice Sossin was a law clerk to former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada, a former Associate in Law at Columbia Law School and a former litigation lawyer with the firm of Borden & Elliot (now Borden Ladner Gervais). He received his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1996. Justice Sossin holds doctorates from the University of Toronto in Political Science and from Columbia University in Law.

Justice Sossin has published numerous books, journal articles, reviews and essays, including Administrative Law in Practice: Principles and Advocacy (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2018) (with Emily Lawrence); and Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in Canada 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2012). Justice Sossin is also the recipient of the 2012 David Mundell Medal for excellence in Legal Writing.

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