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NYSBA | Gaining an Edge—Effective Writing Techniques = 15

Gaining an Edge—Effective Writing Techniques

Non-Member Price:	$170.00
Member Price:	$95.00

Stock Status:	In Stock
Product Code:	80664

Product Description

Live Program Held: Friday, April 28, 2006 - New York City

About the Speaker:

Gerald Lebovits, who authors the Legal Writer column for the New York State Bar Association Journal, is a judge of the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, in Manhattan. For the past 16 years, Judge Lebovits has also taught at New York Law School, where the Best Moot Court Briefs are named after him, where he received the Law School’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and where the students elected him Adjunct Professor of the Year.

Judge Lebovits, an educator and bar leader, is formerly the First Vice President, Network of Bar Leaders; Chair, Fee Dispute Committee for the First Department; Chair, High School Law Program, New York County Lawyers’ Association; and President, Association of Small Claims Arbitrators, New York City Civil Court.

A highly sought-after lecturer with an engaging, witty style, Judge Lebovits has taught legal writing for the New York Court System across New York State for nearly a decade.

Judge Lebovits’s legal-writing presentations since 2003 have included CLEs and lectures for judges and law clerks, including talks at the New York State Court of Appeals and the Massachusetts (Flashner) Judicial Institute; for lawyers at bar associations like the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Inns of Court, and the Brooklyn, Nassau, New York, New Rochelle, Queens, and Richmond County Bar Associations; and for government and educational institutions like Cornell Law School, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York, the New York State Education Department, the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal and the New York State Law Reporting Bureau.

Come see why so many consider Judge Lebovits New York’s finest speaker on legal writing. In 200 minutes of entertainment that will leave you smiling and laughing, Judge Lebovits will share easy-to-remember and simple-to-understand methods of persuasive writing that will make a difference in your next court case. You’ll learn the elements of a winning brief — from cover to conclusion, including story telling, organization, style, rhetoric, ethics, and legal method. This presentation will be jam-packed with practical advice, from making every word count, to citing, to making a court want to rule for you. Bound course materials will be given to all registrants on the morning of the program.

Co-sponsored by the Trial Lawyers Section and the Committee on Continuing Legal Education of the New York State Bar Association

PROGRAM CONTENTS:

(2 hrs. 56 min.)
I.    Effect on Legal Writing of Law School, Popular Culture, History, and Politics
II.   Controversies in Legal Writing
III. Active Voice, Nominalizations, Gender Neutrality, Metadiscourse, Syntax, and Punctuation
IV. Plain English, Clarity, Concision
V.   Elements of a Persuasive Brief: Question Presented, Facts, Summary of Argument, Point Headings, and Argument
VI. Legal Method, Citing, Quoting and Footnotes
VII. Rhetorical Devices: Metaphors, Parallelism, and Antithesis

The New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Continuing Legal Education has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education in the State of New York.

Under New York’s MCLE Rules, this program has been approved for credit for all attorneys, except those who are newly admitted (less than 24 months). This course may be used for New York MCLE credit consisting of 3.5 credit hours in skills.

Total MCLE Credits 3.5

* Each additional person who uses the tapes for MCLE credit must purchase a copy of the "MCLE coursebook."