Sentences with phrase «best oral argument»

Along with their first - place finish, the team earned the first - place award for best oral argument and the second - place award for best brief.

The Ilana Diamond Rovner Award for Outstanding Appellate Advocate is given to the student with the highest combined brief and oral argument scores; the Ralph L. Brill Award is presented to the student who wrote the best brief; and the Fay Clayton Award is presented to the student with the best oral argument performance.

The key to better oral argument is to get away from your outline and use a more «modular» approach when preparing.

There are no tricks to good oral argument, and the single most important component of great oral argument is preparation.

A good oral argument experience — one that throws you into the mix, with vigorous and challenging questions — is like nothing else.

Not exact matches

Oral interviews, arguments, demonstrations, neither demand nor allow orthography or «good writing».

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The Court may turn out to be the Supreme School Board in deed as well as in the words it voiced in the oral argument.

During oral argument, counsel for the State of California and the State's two largest teachers unions made a number of statements that directly contradict the well - founded evidence presented during the two - month Vergara trial.

Justice Scalia explained this best at oral arguments in Friedrichs v. CTA.

On Tuesday a federal court in Washington D.C. heard oral arguments on a legal challenge to the EPA finding that greenhouse gas pollution is a threat to our health and well - being.

On Tuesday a federal court in Washington D.C. heard oral arguments on a historic case — a legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's science - based determination that heat - trapping greenhouse gas pollution is a threat to our health and well - being.

The thing is, a good roadmap is one of the most important components of an effective oral argument; it is how you helpfully say to the court here is what the heck I am talking about.

You may vary from this formula after you have at least twenty oral arguments under your belt and you have a really good reason for it.

Oral argument is one of the most exciting parts of litigation, and only a few lawyers are really good at it.

For example, lecturers could share best practice and mistakes, which vendor they chose for an eDiscovery job, an interesting court opinion that helped win an oral argument, etc..

Peter Keisler is regarded as a «phenomenal» advocate, with sources highlighting his superior brief writing as well as his proficiency in oral argument.

More importantly, Reeve made an important step in skills training: he introduced formal moot courts as a part of the Litchfield curriculum, though on an optional basis.53 Initially, the students themselves conducted the moots, though by 1803, when James Gould was teaching at Litchfield, he presided over the arguments.54 The rules Gould imposed for the moots required not only oral argument, but also written argument, because the litigants had to produce writs and pleadings as well.55 Although a far cry from modern legal writing programs, these moot courts at least endeavored to provide some practical training in the production of persuasive writing.56

Jonathan Hacker is highly active and very well reputed for both his brief writing and his oral arguments.

The «brilliant» Evan Tager garners accolades for his «incredibly cerebral approach,» with clients describing him as «an excellent appellate writer and very good on his feet during oral arguments.»

It culminates in the oral argument, preferably a dialogue with the Court to advance a better understanding of the issues already presented.

While most lawyers still refer to notes during an oral argument, the best arguments I have seen usually come straight from the attorney, with little to no reference to their outline.

Courts allow oral arguments (when they do allow them) so that attorneys have a chance to better address a judge's concerns.

Although none of the 2006 term's blockbuster opinions may emerge from the Court's very first oral argument session, it does appear that the 9th Circuit is well on its way to being reversed in at least three of the four cases to be argued in October.

Chris Simmons has significant trial and litigation experience having tried cases to verdict throughout the state of Texas as well as having presented oral argument before Texas appellate courts.

Fred has also had the privilege of presenting oral argument before the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals and has filed claims in multiple counties in the Philadelphia metro area, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for Puerto Rico as well as both the First and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals.

What is troubling is that the panel apparently agreed during oral argument that the lower court's stated basis for the claim construction it adopted was grammatically incorrect and contrary to well established cannons of claim construction.

Just watch and listen to as many oral arguments as you can — you learn equally from the good and the bad.

The best so far — video of oral argument from the Supreme Court of Ohio and Oyez.org.

In addition to winning the tournament's best brief award, Chicago - Kent's team excelled at oral arguments, losing only to the team from the University of Oklahoma that eventually won the competition.

When I commented on the oral arguments in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, the B.C. hearing fees case, I argued that although there was a good deal of support among the various parties and interveners for the proposition that it was section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, that rendered (excessive) court fees unconstitutional, this argument was problematic.

But it's really rare as an advocate to come out of oral argument without a pretty good sense of what's going to happen.

I have said elsewhere that this may well be the most challenging aspect of oral argument.

When you are facing a judge in supreme or family court, you need an attorney by your side that not only knows how to prepare documents, but also knows how to present your best case in court through a convincing oral argument.

The single best use of your time at oral argument is answering the Court's questions.

He argues that good typography is part of being professional in print, just like practicing for an oral argument or selecting a tie is part of being a professional in court.

OTOH in decades past I know some francophone lawyers would make their oral arguments in English, just because they figured they would be better understood in that language.

Each student prepares a brief on a significant appellate issue, as well as an oral argument on both sides of that issue.

I ranked the Seventh Circuit's Web site as one of the two best, because of the easy access the site provides not only to published opinions but also to briefs, oral argument audiotapes, and free docket entry information.

Counsel's brief should contain the ingredients of a good opinion and the oral argument should expound on the same theme.

The students with the best combined brief and oral argument scores in the Rovner Competition are offered a place on one of eight interscholastic teams the law school enters in spring semester competitions.