Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 9:00 am - 10:45 am
Free for New York City Bar Members & Attorneys from Sponsoring Law Firms*
Attorneys from sponsoring law firms: To ensure your free registration, please register using your law firm email address.
Format: In-Person/Webinar
Description:
Learning to write persuasively is necessary in the practice of law, whether writing for judges, partners, or your clients. Join Judge Gerald Lebovits as he discusses how to draft precise, powerful, and persuasive documents, including how to use traditional legal-writing techniques as well as new virtual and AI tools.
Key takeaways from this program:
- Understanding legal writing do's, don'ts, and controversies
- Powerful legal-writing techniques
- How and when to incorporate the new virtual and AI worlds into your writing
CLE Credit:
New York: 2.0 Skills
New Jersey: TBD
California: TBD
Pennsylvania: TBD
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys
For New York Newly Admitted Attorneys: Skills credits completed after December 31, 2025, must be completed in the traditional live classroom setting or by fully interactive videoconference. City Bar Webinar programs are not considered a fully interactive videoconference. Please see the CLE Format Requirements for Newly Admitted Attorneys for additional information.
For New York Attorneys: This program is a transitional/non-transitional course.
Program Fee:
Free for New York City Bar Members & Attorneys from Sponsoring Law Firms | Non-Members: $75
Speaker:
Hon. Gerald Lebovits, New York State Supreme Court; and Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia, Fordham & NYU
Hon. Gerald Lebovits, a New York judge for 25 years, serves in Manhattan Supreme Court and is an adjunct at Columbia, Fordham, and NYU law schools. He has lectured at the City Bar since the early 1990s and plays the djembe at the City Bar's Twelfth Night musicals.
Information about our Financial Aid Policy and Application can be found here.
Thank you to our Sponsoring Law Firms:
A&O Shearman · Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP · Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP · Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP · Covington & Burling LLP · Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP · Debevoise & Plimpton LLP · Dechert LLP · Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP · Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP · Jenner & Block LLP · Kauff McGuire Margolis LLP · Kelley Drye & Warren LLP · King & Spalding LLP · Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP · Mendes & Mount LLP · Milbank LLP · New York City Law Department · Outten & Golden LLP · Proskauer Rose LLP · Seward & Kissel LLP · Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP · Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP · Sullivan & Cromwell LLP · Thompson Coburn LLP · Venable LLP · Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz · White & Case LLP