Not exact matches
Lawyers who specialize in
appellate practice generally recommend taking a few days off before even communicating the loss to the client, much less deciding what to
do next.
Some may remember United States v. Denedo, where the appellant won at the Supreme Court, but then his
appellate lawyer failed to file a petition to CAAF in time — out of court,
done, no relief.
There were not, that I saw, any interviews or conversations with trial
lawyers, although Blecker
did have some conversations with
appellate attorneys.
There were a couple of other
lawyers, one of my family law
appellate colleagues who was
doing the same thing at about the same time, and we still both
do it the same way.
So we need,
lawyers doing appellate work need to shift their mindset away from okay we're trying to replicate a paper brief, but we're simply e-filing it, which really doesn't
do us any good.
In a way, he was an appealing candidate to many law firms: An elite
appellate lawyer like Levy figured to be the perfect complement for law firms that
did a lot of trial work.
At Scarinci Hollenbeck, our veteran
appellate practitioners, some who were law clerks to
Appellate Judges and N.J. Supreme Court Justices, have gained an intimate knowledge of the
appellate process that trial
lawyers, who may only occasionally be involved in an appeal,
do not possess.
It's a lot of ground to cover for a staff of 35
lawyers, especially considering they don't just
do the research but write memoranda,
appellate briefs, motions, pleadings and multi-state surveys.
Most first - year legal writing course are «genre - driven,» designed around the particular documents
lawyers produce — a complaint, a motion, a brief, a memo, or an email, for example.7 While many of the techniques described in Legal Persuasion could be incorporated into persuasive genres like an
appellate brief, this text is not organized by genre and
does not provide the nuts and bolts of drafting these documents.
Somehow I fear Survivors
do not often become
appellate lawyers, you think?
I
do this blog just for the nerdy fun of it — in real life I'm a federal
appellate lawyer in Philadelphia.
Consequently, the appellant's
lawyers need to consider whether they can win a reversal if the
appellate court
does not know the case as well as counsel
does.
I have no idea how many hours it would take to
do manual research, because every
appellate lawyer on earth stopped relying on «manual research» over a decade ago.
That's not CA3blog's theme, but I
do say
appellate lawyers need to understand judges better.
Lawdragon: How
does one join the ranks of Supreme Court
appellate advocates, perhaps the most elite corps of
lawyers there is?
The remaining
lawyers will focus on truly complex, unusual transactions; the little regulation that tech has not been able to circumvent; and litigation over law (just what you thought you would
do when you were reading all those
appellate decisions in law school, remember?)