Sentences with phrase «practicing oral arguments»

Not exact matches

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..

My first year in practice, I found myself repeatedly undertaking tasks for the first time — drafting discovery, writing a complaint, taking a deposition, defending a deposition, or handling a first oral argument.

Typical practice is to release transcripts the day of argument and audio the Friday after oral argument, Case Western Reserve University School of Law professor Jonathan Adler noted at the Volokh Conspiracy.

My practice focuses on extraordinary writs, appellate remands, interlocutory appeals, and capital cases, although I supervise all our office's litigation and thus work on all sorts of cases and guide the legal writing and position - taking on behalf of the United States, oral argument training, and attorney development.

Veteran brief - writer Brian Keller gives us the nuts and bolts, from writing to oral argument, expanding on last week's Q&A covering the specialized world of appellate practice.

Prentice H. Marshall, «Oral Argument,» in Civil Practice After Trial, 9 - 1, 9 - 25 (1976).

Generally speaking, the most difficult aspect of appellate practice isn't the research, which all of us learn to do in law school, or even the oral argument, which frequently resembles law school moot court.

After having served there as a law clerk, in private practice he has personally handled over 40 appeals before that Court, fourteen of which were full appeals with oral argument, and thirteen of which resulted in published opinions.

Attending depositions and oral arguments is educational, and the partner or associate will appreciate your interest in their practice.

Try to get oral argument on a motion, even if that's not the usual case, and use such argument as the opportunity to get out your points, perhaps (contrary to general practice) bringing copies of key cases with you to the argument with important sections highlighted and tabbed, and try to give those to the judge or her court attorney.

When all you do is pound on a keyboard all day, you're not practicing your skills in the oral argument perspective.

I think one of the things that has come about for me in doing this over the last 10 or 15 years is that I really noticed and heard a lot of more experienced attorneys complaining to me that they think younger attorneys are less adept at oral arguments because they don't practice formulating their SOPs.

Ms. Wydler has developed an effective appellate practice for the firm through incisive brief writing and presenting oral arguments at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and district courts of appeal in Florida.

September 14 - 18, 2014 - Practitioners» Course on «The Fundamentals of International Arbitration and Caribbean Arbitration Trends» led by Professor Jan Paulsson, featuring an intense three day theory tutorial, two day training module to develop practice skills, mock sessions on oral argument and witness examination, and sessions run by leading international scholars and practitioners.

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.

They then write a complete appellate brief and present a second oral argument, this time in front of a panel of practicing lawyers and judges.

The emphasis in all of our appellate work is on creative and persuasive argument of the dispositive legal issues whether in motions practice, briefing or oral argument.

Furthermore, religion does not preclude reasoned argument; its arguments are based on a more - or-less exacting hermeneutic of «revealed» texts (and, sometimes, oral traditions), which is not that much different from the practice of law, since most legal cases are not reasoned from first principles, but from precedent - setting cases like Oakes).

But as in other areas of legal practice, the reality is that the person you see at oral argument is just the tip of the iceberg.

The oral argument pilot program is just one of the many recent Appeals Court initiatives aimed at making Massachusetts appellate practice more efficient.

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.

Before the graded oral argument, I invite students to join me in our school's moot courtroom — either alone or in small groups — sometimes just to take a tour of the empty courtroom, to practice standing at the podium, and to sit on the bench and see the courtroom from the judges» perspective.

Now Counsel Network freelance lawyers can assist you with all stages of the appellate process, including supervising an appellate services provider's work compiling and organizing the record; researching the legal issues; drafting the opening and reply briefs (or, if you represent the respondent, drafting the opposition brief); engaging in appellate motion practice; and presenting oral argument.