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NYSBA | Advanced Legal Writing for the NY Attorney F'08 = 15

Advanced Legal Writing for the NY Attorney F'08

Non-Member Price:	$175.00
Member Price:	$90.00

Stock Status:	In Stock
Product Code:	80955

Product Description

Write to Win: Advanced Legal Writing for the New York Attorney (2008)

In 190 entertaining and informative minutes, Judge Lebovits shares 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 is jam-packed with practical advice, from making every word count, to citing, to making a court want to rule for you.

Program Contents

• Getting the Job Done: Outlining Through Editing
• Controversies in Legal Writing
• Legal Writing Do’s
• Legal Writing Don’ts
• Legal Style: Writing Clearly and Concisely
• Elements of Persuasive Wrting
• Brief Writing: Questions Presented, Facts and Argument
• Legal Method, Citing, Quoting, and Ethics
• A Touch of Class: Winning Rhetorical Devices

Program Speakers

Gerald Lebovits, author of the “Legal Writer,” a column in the New York State Bar Association Journal, is a judge of the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, in Manhattan. Judge Lebovits is an adjunct professor at St. John’s University School of Law, where he teaches appellate advocacy and Moot Court. For many years, he has been a faculty member of the New York State Judicial Institute, where he teaches skills and substantive law to New York State judges. For 18 years Judge Lebovits taught at New York Law School, where he received the Law School’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Total MCLE Credits 3.5
Ethics MCLE Credits 0.0

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