Experience

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  Self Employed

  • Pennsylvania, United States

  • Writing Trainer

    • Sep 1980 - Present
    • Pennsylvania, United States

    On-Site or Zoom Training in Effective Writing. Attended by more than 10,000 professionals at Fortune 500 companies, large law firms, and federal agencies in U.S., China, and Europe.

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  On-Site Training in Effective Writing

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Trainer, Author, Editor

    • Jun 1980 - Sep 2023
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    I have trained more than 10,000 professionals in the U.S., China, Taiwan, Belgium, and France, in the art of effective writing. I have edited and ghostwritten scores of articles in professional journals. In the early 1990s, I ghostwrote "What a Great Idea," published by HarperCollins.

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  Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dun...

  • Reston, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

  • Counsel and Writer-in-Residence

    • Oct 1993 - Jun 2017
    • Reston, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

    I also provide on-site training programs in effective writing to businesses, law firms, and governmental agencies. Call my cell: 240-GRAMMAR (240-472-6627).

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  University of Virginia School of Law

  • Director of Legal Writing

    • Jun 1975 - Jun 1980

    At U.Va. I started the Hardy C. Dillard Fellow program to teach legal writing and legal research to first-year law students.

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  Supreme Court of the United States

  • Supreme Court Fellow

    • Jun 1977 - Jun 1978

    In 1977, I was selected as one of two Supreme Court Fellows to serve the Supreme Court of the United States and the Federal Judicial Center. As a Fellow, I completed a Federal Courts Library Study, which analyzed the lawbook resources serving federal judges throughout the country.

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  Corning Glass

  • Around the world.

  • Corning Glass Traveling Fellowship

    • Jun 1967 - Jul 1968
    • Around the world.

    Selected as one of five Corning Fellows to travel around the world. Worked at Corning in Corning, New York, and at Corning's offices in Hong Kong and Brussels, Belgium.