Sentences with phrase «of appellate briefs»

Offer essential researches and drafts of appellate briefs and several legal motions at various phases of criminal and civil procedures.

Provide necessary researches and drafts of appellate briefs and various court motions at various periods of criminal and civil procedures.

She has drafted and presented numerous successful motions in various Texas courts, and has prepared a number of appellate briefs.

(To recap, Bryan's paper surveyed the practices of sixteen state jurisdictions and DC — the ten largest ABA jurisdictions (by membership size) and seven jurisdictions that did not supply copies of appellate briefs to commercial vendors.

A prolific writer on legal issues, he has authored hundreds of appellate briefs on behalf of consumers and has published controversial articles criticizing current judicial interpretations of the law that unduly favor the affluent.

Then there is its Brief Bank, a collection of appellate briefs in capital cases -LSB-...]

One of the most common requirements of appellate briefs is that they are divided into multiple parts requiring distinct page numbers.

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But she's especially looking forward to a publication forthcoming later this year in the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism titled «Telling Stories in the Supreme Court: Voices Briefs and the Role of Democracy in Constitutional Deliberation,» which will analyze a new, controversial form of appellate narrative argument: briefs that share stories of individuals not parties to the case atBriefs and the Role of Democracy in Constitutional Deliberation,» which will analyze a new, controversial form of appellate narrative argument: briefs that share stories of individuals not parties to the case atbriefs that share stories of individuals not parties to the case at hand.

In addition, I was responsible for proofreading and cite checking all of the briefs for the appellate division of the firm.

Randall G. Bennett is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Tennessee School Boards Association where he provides general legal opinions to local boards of education, superintendents and TSBA staff on school governanace issues, organizes and presents at seminars and training events, prepares and files amicus briefs in appellate cases affecting public schools, monitors current litigation and changes in state and federal law, and supervises the Association's Policy Department, A former school board member and police officer, Mr. Bennett obtained his law degree from Nashville School of Law.

If you don't have a lot of experience with appellate briefs, or can't objectively identify the best arguments for your motions, it might be wise to hire someone who is experienced and impartial.

The site's founder, Harry Zeitlin, tells me that they have already collected a large number of state supreme and appellate court briefs and matching opinions, which they are actively adding to the database.

Starting December 1, lawyers filing briefs with the Texas Supreme Court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the state's 14 intermediate appellate courts must contend with a new rule that limits the filings by the number of words.

For example, Michael Murray used manual review and coding to study the use of parentheticals in 200 federal appellate court briefs and 107 Supreme Court opinions.256

During this time she cultivated her appellate and trial advocacy skills, obtaining significant experience authoring appellate briefs on a variety of topics and handling all aspects of litigation including drafting pleadings, conducting discovery, motion practice and preparing for trial.

There's really a wide gamut of things that we do that fall under the rubric of appellate work that don't involve just sitting behind the computer and writing briefs all day.

Prepared various appellate briefs for review by the Arizona Court of Appeals and the Arizona Supreme Court.

Michael Murray studied rhetorical uses of parentheticals in federal appellate briefs and opinions.110 He drew a cross-sectional sample of briefs filed in several appellate courts from February through July of 2011.

Their independent variable was readability, as measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score calculated by Microsoft Word.127 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion (present or absent), and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.

As a Principal of Newman ADR, retired Justice Sandra Schultz Newman uses her experience as a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's queries.

Prior to joining Carr Maloney, Ashley drafted appellate briefs in the Court of Special Appeals and litigated personal injury, estate planning, guardianship, conservatorship, landlord - tenant, and other civil litigation proceedings as an Associate Attorney at Cohen & Hertz, P.C.

Our legal team has extensive experience drafting cogent appellate briefs and a history of making successful oral arguments before appellate judges.

He was lead counsel in the federal and appellate courts and on the briefs in the United State Supreme Court on behalf of the County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Flood Control District in Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 133 S. Ct. 710 (2013), a unanimous ruling in favor of his client.

He has written briefs and handled oral arguments in 15 appellate matters in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Maryland Court of Appeals and Court of Special Appeals, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

In my first two years in small law, I was able to work 4 trials, argue too many motions, take to many depositions, participate in case evaluations and facilitations, and write at least two appellate briefs that I can recall of the top of my head.

As for the students, they'll have a couple of Supreme Court briefs as a writing sample, which beats a fake appellate moot court brief any day.

She has also played an instrumental role in the drafting of arbitration briefs, appellate briefs and petitions for writ of certiorari for submission to the American Arbitration Association, the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Called The Daubert Tracker, its central feature is a database of all reported Daubert and Kumho decisions, trial and appellate, backed up when available by full - text briefs, transcripts and docket entries.

L. Rev. 171 (2008)(measuring the relationship between the use of intensifiers in appellate briefs and success on appeal).

Much more frequently than I would prefer, I see appellate briefs and motions filed by major law firms that simply use slanted plain text for italics in place of actually installing and using the italics font pack for the font that the document's author has elected to use.

Appellate Advocacy Fellow at The Public Justice Center, where he represented indigent clients, authored amicus briefs, and argued in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Maryland appellate courts on various anti-poverty and civil rights cases.

When the appellate court received the Special Action Petition, the Court of Appeals ordered both parties to file simultaneous briefs addressing whether the trial judge had jurisdiction to issue its order, since it addressed the same subject on which the superior court had previously ruled.

While in law school, Mr. Barton clerked for the California Department of Justice, Criminal Appeals Division, and submitted appellate briefs to the California Courts of Appeal in eleven cases seeking to uphold convictions.

EXPERIENCE Newman ADR uses experience to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's queries.

Experienced in all stages of litigation, from conducting discovery to trial and appeal, Gabrielle has an extensive background in drafting motions to dismiss, infringement and invalidity contentions, claim construction and summary judgment briefs, pre-trial and post-trial briefs, and appellate pleadings.

So under the current court rules, they're doing themselves somewhat of a disservice by limiting the length of their briefs, but they decided that they'd rather have their briefs readable to the appellate judges who are reading them on their iPads.

Noting the strict limits imposed nowadays on appellate briefs and oral arguments, Hughes proposes that appellate lawyers adopt a system of communicating via acronyms in the same way that text messengers use acronyms such as LOL and FWIW.

All of my briefs, basically everything I file with the appellate courts, will go through WordRake and PerfectIt before they get filed.

What Michigan does now, unfortunately, is we have, we're I think one of the few states that still have this, we have a page limit for our appellate briefs, 50 pages.

In her appellate practice, she has prepared briefs in courts for the Eighth and Eleventh Circuits, the Missouri Supreme Court and the Missouri Court of Appeals on matters involving product liability, insurance coverage, ERISA and the False Claims Act.

She has litigated hundreds of family law cases as a trial attorney, written numerous appellate briefs and Family Court motions, and successfully argued numerous cases before the First and Second Departments of the New York Appellate Division.

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.

If you have to do appellate briefs that require a Table of Authorities, you have my sincerest sympathies.

Dyer's briefs attacked the appellate judges only, accusing them of fabricating evidence.

Honorees were authors of judicial opinions, books, magazine and law review articles and appellate briefs.

I switched the bulk of my practice over to appellate matters, where I only needed to show up in court for a 30 - minute argument, on a date scheduled months in advance and when I could work on the briefs from home.

Juniors had worked on a variety of matters, including «working at an organization to help pensioners be able to access Medicare,» working for Lawyers for the Creative Arts, tackling immigration cases, writing appellate briefs and helping people learn election laws.

The firm handles not only simple appeals, but all aspects of appellate practice, including mandamus and certiorari petitions, amicus briefs, rehearing applications and oral arguments.

She then drafts motions and briefs for all stages of litigation, submitting them to state and federal courts, including state appellate and supreme courts, as well as federal Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court of the United States.

So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56