Originally held on Thursday, May 7, 2020 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Dianne Rosky
Founder & Principal, Rosky Legal Education LLC
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This program will focus on four levels of legal writing: document organization, paragraph cohesion, sentence structure, and word choice. Through a series of real-word examples and exercises, participants will learn practical strategies for eliminating common writing weaknesses on each of these four levels. Participants will leave the program with easy-to-implement strategies for drafting effective introductions, providing useful roadmaps, and writing clear, concrete sentences.
This workshop emphasizes general writing skills that are relevant to lawyers across all practice areas, including both litigation and transactional work. The workshop is geared toward junior attorney but provides a useful review for attorneys at all levels.
Please note: This program will consist of audio-only instruction by the faculty, along with a visual aid presentation.
Program Fee: Free for Members | $99 for Nonmembers
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A Harvard Law School graduate and former large-firm litigator, Dianne is a consultant to leading law firms, corporations, and government agencies. Dianne and her team have led hundreds of group and individual training sessions at major law firms throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dianne is passionate about teaching lawyers to express themselves clearly and confidently.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Dianne was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Sweet of the Southern District of New York. Before founding Rosky Legal Education in 2003, Dianne practiced commercial litigation at two leading New York firms: Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. At Sullivan & Cromwell, she was selected as the firm’s Pro Bono Fellow to litigate prisoners’ federal civil rights actions. Dianne has taught legal writing at NYU School of Law, both as a full-time professor in the Lawyering Program and as an Adjunct Professor of Legal English in the international LL.M. Program.
Dianne has long been enamored of words and language. Before law school, she worked as an Editorial Assistant at Merriam-Webster, selecting and defining new dictionary entries. Dianne is responsible for putting carb, capoeira, and cash cow in the dictionary.
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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Participants Will Learn Strategies for:- Drafting effective introductions
- Providing useful roadmaps
- Drafting strong topic sentences
- Crafting concise, concrete sentences
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CLE Credit
New York: 1.0 Skills
New Jersey: 1.0 General
California: 1.0 General
Pennsylvania: 1.0 General
Connecticut: Available to Licensed AttorneysPlease Note: Newly admitted NY attorneys cannot fulfill ethics or skills credits through our on-demand programs under OCA rules. For more information on this, please see http://www.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/changes_for_2016.shtml.
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Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
Angie Avila, Manager, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org______________________________________________________________