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A well-written legal document is one of the most important tools in a lawyer’s arsenal. The goal is to create a clear and concise document that is easily understood. This session will teach five vital tips for improving writing including planning and organizing, being succinct, eliminating legalese, avoiding passive voice, and reading, reviewing, and revising.
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Jul 25, 2019
A well-written legal document is one of the most important tools in a lawyer’s arsenal. The goal is to create a clear and concise document that is easily understood. This session will teach five vital tips for improving writing including planning and organizing, being succinct, eliminating legalese, avoiding passive voice, and reading, reviewing, and revising.
US Attorney's Office
Office of the Pima County Attorney
REGINA L. NASSEN is a Deputy County Attorney in the Pima County Attorney’s Office. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1992, after which she spent a year clerking for the Honorable Justice Frederick Martone, Arizona Supreme Court. She then joined the Tucson office of Snell & Wilmer LLP. While at Snell & Wilmer (1993-2000), Regina had a varied transactional and general-advising practice that included all types of real estate transactions, general business advising, airport law, and both public and private finance, as well as occasional appellate work. After a three-year hiatus from the practice of law, Regina joined the Civil Division of the Pima County Attorney’s Office (PCAO). There she has continued her diverse transactional, general-advising, and appellate-litigation practice, while also serving as the Supervising Attorney of the Division’s Business & Transactions Unit, and PCAO’s Chief Ethics Counsel. She is a current member and past chair of the governing council of the Public Lawyers Section of the State Bar of Arizona and a member of the governing council of the America Bar Association’s Government & Public Sector Lawyers Division. Regina was recently appointed by Chief Justice Bales to the Arizona Supreme Court Attorney Ethics Advisory Committee.
Colorado Administrative Law Judge
Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division
2017 Directory of State and Local Lawyer Assistance Programs
2018 Directory of State and Local Lawyer Assistanc
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