![]() This full-day, entertaining, intensive, and practical nuts-and-bolts seminar, taught by a leading advocacy instructor, explains effective objective and persuasive legal writing from thinking about a project through submitting it. Attendees will learn legal writing's dos, don'ts, controversies, and ethics. The components of a brief will be analyzed: questions presented, facts, summaries of arguments, and arguments. The seminar will also detail easy-to-learn but hard-to-forget elements and the philosophy of good legal writing, including Plain English, style, clarity, concision, storytelling, organization, sentence and paragraph structure, citing, footnotes, quoting, format, legal method, and rhetoric. Program Instructor: Honorable Gerald Lebovits, Judge, New York City Civil Court, Housing Part & Adjunct Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law CLE credit: 6.5 credits total: 5.5 skills & 1.0 professional practice. This live program provides New York & California transitional/non-transitional credit to all attorneys. | |||
Live Course | |||
Member: $ 375.00 | ![]() |
Nonmember: $ 515.00 | ![]() |
Walk-in for Course | |||
Member: $ 400.00 |
Nonmember: $ 540.00 | ||
CD | |||
Member: $ 445.00 | ![]() |
Nonmember: $ 615.00 | ![]() |
DVD | |||
Member: $ 605.00 | ![]() |
Nonmember: $ 765.00 | ![]() |
Course Material | |||
Member: $ 105.00 | ![]() |
Nonmember: $ 135.00 | ![]() |