About the authors

• Author: Helen E. Freedman/Gerald Lebovits
• Pages: 5-6

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ABOUT JUSTICE GERALD LEBOVITS

JUSTICE GERALD LEBOVITS wrote the 2018 annual supplement to New York

Objections, updating every chapter and adding hundreds of new case citations

throughout the book.

Judge Lebovits has been a New York City judge since 2001. An acting

Supreme Court justice in Manhattan, he is president of the 300-judge New

York State Association of Acting Supreme Court Justices. Before that he was

the president of the 120-judge Board of Judges of the New York City Civil

Court and the 50-judge New York City Association of Housing Court Judges.

Justice Lebovits has been an adjunct professor of law for 32 years, currently

at Columbia, Fordham, and NYU. e students at Fordham, New York Law School, and St. John’s have each elected

him Adjunct Law Professor of the Year.

e author of six books and more than 300 articles, Justice Lebovits has given hundreds of lectures on evi-

dence, legal writing, ethics, criminal practice, and landlord-tenant law for judges, bar associations, and government

agencies across the United States and in Canada, Kenya, Mexico, and Qatar.

Justice Lebovits has a B.A. in law (1976), two certicates in law (1978), and a license in law (1979) from Canada

(where he is from), and two graduate law degrees, from Tulane (1980) and NYU (1986), in the United States.

Justice Lebovits dedicates this book to his wonderful and awesome sister, Agi Lebovits, and to her equally

wonderful and awesome children, Mindy and Jamie Shear, and their spouses and children.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Justice Lebovits gratefully acknowledges the Herculean and intelligent work of Julian Rodriguez, who con-

tributed research to every chapter, adding cases and comments. Mr. Rodriguez is an associate of the New York

City-based law rm of Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman, LLP. He practices in the rm’s litigation department,

where he specializes in residential and commercial real-estate disputes. Mr. Rodriguez graduated with honors from

St. John’s University School of Law in 2015, where he served on the Law Review. He is a 2012 honors graduate

of SUNY Binghamton University.