The Write House

Good writing is the most critical and yet the rarest skill in law. Listen to Bryan Garner: “Writing is one of the two great skills that will advance your career in law. (The other is people skills.) If you can write well, you must necessarily do other things well: analyze cogently, organize logically, distill accurately, […]

“A brief should be luminous, not voluminous.”- Irvin Taylor Research and write persuasive briefs, submissions, and written addresses. Filter your persuasive-writing prowess through the alembic of The Write House’s astounding and outstanding pedagogy. Then you can implement writing that captures judicial imagination. When you write as we teach, the judiciary will fall in love with […]

To validate their institutional continuance as a branch of government, judges and magistrates must make sound decisions. They must also articulate and express those decisions efficiently and comprehensibly. This course demonstrates how to attain mastery in judicial writing. The program will help judges, magistrates, arbitrators, and other decision-writers master the art and science of judicial […]

Esteemed Colleagues If you’re a judge, arbitrator, or decision-writer, you should get this book. If you’re not, get it for your friend who is. Judicial Writing: A Benchmark for the Bench by Chinua Asuzu​ Click the cover photo or link above to learn more. Best regards Senator Iyere Ihenyen

“A brief should be luminous, not voluminous.”- Irvin Taylor Research and write persuasive briefs, submissions, and written addresses. Filter your persuasive-writing prowess through the alembic of The Write House’s astounding and outstanding pedagogy. Then you can implement writing that captures judicial imagination. When you write as we teach, the judiciary will fall in love with […]

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, […]

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. […]

Enjoy an early-bird N50,000 discount to Briefwriting Masterclass Register and pay before Saturday 21 November 2015 to take advantage of the early-bird discount. You pay only N100,000. You get N50,000 off. “A brief should be luminous, not voluminous.” – Irvin Taylor Briefwriting Masterclass is an eclectic treatment of written advocacy. Linguistics, logic, psychology, rhetoric, and […]

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 […]