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Friday May 6
2016
 Supervising Legal Writing

This training is only open to LSNYC Legal Work Supervisors and Managers. 

In this training for LSNYC Legal Work Supervisors and Managers, the faculty will examine supervisors’ roles in working supportively to improve supervisees' legal writing skills. Participants will learn how to identify strong writing and improve poor writing, and how to use various communication techniques throughout the writing process when working with new and more experienced legal writers. The faculty will discuss different editing and revising strategies that participants can use when offering feedback to supervisees. 

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  • When
    Friday, May 6, 2016
    1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
  • Location
    Legal Services NYC - Central
    40 Worth St., 6th floor
    New York, NY 10013
  • CLE Credits
    Skills: 2.50
    Law Practice Management: 0.50
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Practice Skills
    Legal Practice
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Lorraine Doran (Speaker)

    Lorraine Doran teaches writing and legal narrative at New York University. Prior to coming to NYU, she was a Visiting Clinical Professor at Seton Hall School of Law, where she taught a seminar on civil litigation. She also practiced in the litigation department at Carter Ledyard & Milburn. She holds a J.D. and an M.F.A. in poetry, both from N.Y.U.
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    Shabnam Faruki (Speaker)

    Shabnam Faruki joined Legal Services NYC in 2009 and is currently the temporary director of the Foreclosure Prevention Project in the Brooklyn office. Prior to joining SILS, she was an attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago. Shabnam received her B.A. from Yale University, a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and her J.D. from New York University, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow.
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    Luis Henriquez (Speaker)

    Luis is the Director of Litigation at Manhattan Legal Services. For over 18 years, Luis has defended the rights of families to be treated with dignity and respect in their homes, workplaces, and broader community. Luis has also led litigation teams in a number of systemic-change cases, including Fields v. Russ, a federal case in the Southern District of New York that forced the New York City Housing Authority to reform its rent calculation and eviction practices affecting more than 400,000 public housing residents, and Morales Feliciano v. Acevedo Vila, a federal class action in the District of Puerto Rico regarding the conditions of confinement in all Puerto Rican prisons. Luis holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law and a Masters in Economics from Bowling Green State University.
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    Edward Josephson (Speaker)

    Edward Josephson is currently the Director of Litigation at Legal Services NYC and at Brooklyn Legal Services. From 1996-2003, he was the Director of the Housing Law Unit at South Brooklyn. He has defended tenants in eviction proceedings since 1988. Mr. Josephson has litigated a number of affirmative cases on issues of significance to low income New Yorkers, including Grimm v. DHCR, which expanded landlords' liability for rent overcharges; Brooklyn Tenants v. Lynch, a challenge to pro-landlord amendments to the Rent Stabilization Code; Campos v. Rhea and Torres v. Martinez, federal actions that helped reform procedures in the Section 8 rent subsidy program; Frunzescu v. Martinez, which expedited the issuance of emergency Section 8 subsidy transfers; and Lang v. Pataki, a constitutional challenge to laws requiring rent deposits by indigent tenants. He has also litigated numerous cases in federal district and bankruptcy courts to protect the rights of tenants in federally subsidized housing projects. Mr. Josephson is a graduate of NYU Law School.
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    Andrew Williams (Speaker)

    Andrew Williams received his A.B. in Social Studies and Anthropology in 1997 from Harvard College, summa cum laude, and his J.D. in 2002 magna cum laude from New York University School of Law. He was a Robert McKay Scholar, elected to the Order of the Coif, and awarded both a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship and a Sidley & Austin Public Interest Fellowship. He also served as Managing Editor of the Review of Law and Social Change. After graduation, Andy was awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work at The Bronx Defenders, Civil Action Project, where he continued as a staff attorney prior to joining the Law School. Williams provided civil legal advice, service, and representation to Bronx residents accused of crimes, as well as to their families, in order to mitigate the collateral consequences of being criminally charged. His practice spanned a broad range of civil matters, including public and private housing, criminal record errors, civil rights, welfare, forfeiture, employment and licensing. He also provided training and consulting for criminal defense attorneys. His research is in the area of criminal law and collateral consequences. Andrew Williams joined the Law School as an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering in 2006. He was the Associate Director of the Lawyering Program during the 2009-2010 academic year, and he became the Director of the Lawyering Program in 2010.