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DRAFTING FINDINGS OF FACT and CONCLUSIONS OF LAW: Tips and Techniques for Administrative Law Judges / AUG 2021
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This session is designed to help you improve your role in Administrative Law writing and proceedings, especially if you serve even occasionally as an ALJ.
The content of this program is the main plenary instruction taken from a live workshop training that occurred in 2021.
PROGRAM CONTENT
MANAGING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS and HEARINGS
BASICS – WHY WRITE A DECISION?
THEORY and APPROACH - Your Role as an ALJ - Finder of Fact and Law - Neutral Referee or Umpire - Specialist – A Legal Expert in a Narrow Field of Law - “Judge and Jury” – ALJ as Finder of Fact and Arbiter of Law - Public Servant - Professionalism
WORKFLOW ISSUES - Dealing with Lawyers, Staff, Calendars and Deadlines - Creation of Written Templates - Making Your Decision LOOK Official WRITING DECISIONS
- Getting Started - Grammar and Style – Making Your Decision SOUND Official - Addressing Disputed Testimony and Evidence - Fact Witnesses - Expert/Skilled/Technical Witnesses - Drafting Findings of Fact - Drafting Conclusions of Law - Burdens of Production, Proof - Standard of Appellate Review of Agency Decisions - Drafting the Order/Decision/Disposition - Review and Proofreading
CLOSING THOUGHTS and VIEWS FROM ALJs and the APPELLATE COURT BENCH