Peter Liang, the former New York City police officer convicted last month in the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley, met on Thursday with Mr. Gurley’s domestic partner, lawyers said.

At the meeting, which lasted about five minutes, Mr. Liang told Mr. Gurley’s partner, Kimberly Ballinger, that he was sorry, his lawyer said.

The meeting came a day after the Brooklyn district attorney’s office recommended that Mr. Liang, 28, who was convicted of second-degree manslaughter, receive no prison time when he is sentenced next month. The apology was an attempt by Mr. Liang to defuse the anger and discord directed at him after Mr. Gurley’s death.

“He said he was very sorry, that he knows how difficult it is to lose a loved one and that this” — the shooting — “was the last thing he could have ever imagined happening,” one of Mr. Liang’s lawyers, Paul Shechtman, said.