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Once again, Lagos State has blazed the trail of legal development by radically transforming its civil procedure code. Litigators need to acquaint themselves with major planks of the High Court of Lagos State (Civil Procedure) Rules 2019. Anatomy of the New Lagos Rules assembles leading experts in litigation, ADR, and legal linguistics to demystify the [...]

Brief-Writing Masterclass, Partridge, 2017, is out. This just-published work on written advocacy is authored by Chinua Asuzu, Dean of The Write House. Please preview the book here: www.briefwriting.net. Brief-Writing Masterclass is now available in Nigeria. With institutional support, we’re now able to offer Brief-Writing Masterclass at half the price, for a limited time: 1 November 2017 to […]

When you write as we teach, you will “analyze cogently, organize logically, distill accurately, argue persuasively, cite knowledgeably, punctuate skillfully, and phrase smoothly.” Bryan A. Garner. Brief-Writing Masterclass blends law, linguistics, logic, psychology, rhetoric, and semantics to produce an unparalleled curriculum of persuasive advocacy. Brief-Writing Masterclass is a challenging, intensive, and interactive 3-day workshop with exercises, group tasks, […]

Briefwriting Masterclass, Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja Lagos, 27-29 April 2016- N180,000; Briefwriting Masterclass, Chelsea Hotel CBD Abuja, 21-23 June 2016- N200,000 Learned Writing: Sense & Nonsense, Oriental Hotel Lekki Lagos, 26-28 October 2016- N200,000; Judicial Writing: A Benchmark for the Bench, Oriental Hotel Lekki Lagos, 30 November-2 December 2016- N200,000; and Briefwriting Masterclass, Oriental Hotel Lekki […]

Briefwriting Masterclass starts 9am tomorrow Wednesday 27 April and ends 4pm Friday 29 April. The venue is Sheraton Hotel Ikeja Lagos. If you go through the attached course outline and the training program, you won’t want to miss this CLE event. We are talking 3 days of intensive immersion in written-advocacy pedagogy, with exercises, tasks, […]

Season’s Greetings to all our members. Without you, 2015 would have been incomplete for us at The Write House. Thank you. We also thank our clientele for being part of our vision to champion a client-centred and service-oriented professional community through clarity in communication and writing: 1. Abuja Investment Co. Ltd 2. Adebayo & Gbadamosi […]

This video introduces The Write House’s new book, The Uncommon Law of Learned Writing. The Uncommon Law of Learned Writing encourages and motivates lawyers and nonlawyers alike to prefer plain English to the legalese and verbosity that has besmirched legal writing for centuries. Please view and share this video by email and on social media. […]

We celebrate with the Nigerian legal community, especially the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), on the forthcoming 2015 NBA Annual General Conference Abuja. As one of our contributions to the development of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) in Nigeria, we have reduced the price of our brief-writing book, Anatomy of a Brief , to N3000. The Write […]

The course contents below will show you just how rich our Briefwriting Masterclass promises to be for you, your partners, and associates: 1.0 The Architecture of Argument 1.1 The structure of a brief 1.2 Table of contents 1.3 Issues for Determination 1.4 The Introduction 1.5 Facts (and Procedural History) 1.6 The Argument Section 1.7 Conclusion […]