Communications Skills

Tips on how to write to keep your readers interested.

Paul Burton | The world is a noisy place. Is it best to just give up and swim in the ocean of distraction? Nope.

Do you get tongue-tied at cocktail parties? Does making small talk at conferences rate somewhere between vacuuming the car and sitting in the front row of a heavy metal concert? Do we have some tips for you!

Paul Burton | You can manage your work or be managed by it. These four tips will keep you in the driver's seat.

Our legal writing skills series continues with a couple of punctuation marks that often trip up lawyers.

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton | Who knows why we do it, but most of us tend to say “yes” to things when we should say "no."

To present a subject effectively, you need to optimize the speaker (you), the course materials, the visual (the PowerPoint) and the notes.

Get to the Point! | Getting diacritical marks right in your legal documents can make or break your case.

Most business communications have one objective: to obtain a response. Focus on communicating better to increase your odds of a quick and meaningful reply. Lawyers spend a lot of time communicating to get work done. We communicate with clients, ...

Get to the Point | Short paragraphs produce more readable documents.