Legal Writing with Lebovits 2025
This course will cover basic and advanced levels of legal writing.
A highly sought-after lecturer with an engaging, witty style, Justice Gerald Lebovits has been a New York City judge since 2001. A Supreme Court justice in Manhattan, he is the immediate past president of the 330-judge New York State Association of Acting Supreme Court Justices.
Lebovits has been an adjunct professor of law for 36 years, currently at Columbia, Fordham, and NYU. The students at Fordham, New York Law School, and St. John's have each elected him Adjunct Law Professor of the Year. The author of eight books and more than 350 articles, Lebovits has given hundreds of CLEs on legal writing, ethics, criminal practice, and landlord-tenant law for bar associations, government organizations, and the New York State Court System. He authored the Legal Writer Column for the New York State Bar Journal for 20 years.
See why so many consider Justice Lebovits New York’s finest speaker on legal writing. Lebovits will share easy-to-remember and simple-to-understand methods of persuasive writing that will make a difference in your next case. You’ll learn the elements of a winning brief — from cover to conclusion, including storytelling, theme, organization, style, rhetoric, ethics, and legal method. This program will be jam-packed with practical advice, from making every word count, to citing, to making a court want to rule for you.
Speaker:
Hon. Gerald Lebovits, New York State Supreme Court
Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia, Fordham & NYU
- April 23, 2025
- 11:00 AM
- 2:00 PM
- 0.5
- 2.5
- 3.0
- Virtual Participation
This course will cover basic and advanced levels of legal writing.
11:00 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
11:00 a.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Legal Writing with Lebovits
A highly sought-after lecturer with an engaging, witty style, Justice Gerald Lebovits has been a New York City judge since 2001. A Supreme Court justice in Manhattan, he is the immediate past president of the 330-judge New York State Association of Acting Supreme Court Justices.
Lebovits has been an adjunct professor of law for 36 years, currently at Columbia, Fordham, and NYU. The students at Fordham, New York Law School, and St. John's have each elected him Adjunct Law Professor of the Year. The author of eight books and more than 350 articles, Lebovits has given hundreds of CLEs on legal writing, ethics, criminal practice, and landlord-tenant law for bar associations, government organizations, and the New York State Court System. He authored the Legal Writer Column for the New York State Bar Journal for 20 years.
See why so many consider Justice Lebovits New York’s finest speaker on legal writing. Lebovits will share easy-to-remember and simple-to-understand methods of persuasive writing that will make a difference in your next case. You’ll learn the elements of a winning brief — from cover to conclusion, including storytelling, theme, organization, style, rhetoric, ethics, and legal method. This program will be jam-packed with practical advice, from making every word count, to citing, to making a court want to rule for you.
There will be a 15-minute break during this presentation.
Speaker:
Hon. Gerald Lebovits, New York State Supreme Court
Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia, Fordham & NYU
2.5 Credits in Skills; 0.5 Credit in Ethics
1:50 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Q&A
- Hon. Gerald Lebovits, New York State Supreme Court
- Webinar
- 0PT61
- General Practice Section
- Trial Lawyers Section
- Continuing Legal Education Committee
