Sentences with phrase «what appellate law»

It's both a rush, and it's throwing counsel in the deep end, dealing a quick blow to any illusions they had about what appellate law is.

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I don't think a previous incident of «due process of law» negates any future «due processes of law»... after all, isn't that exactly what the appellate court system is?

Philip Lacovara, 69, Evan Davis, 69, and George Davidson, 71, all former Am Law 100 appellate specialists, have teamed up to offer what they see as a valuable service: a moot panel designed to provide lawyers pursuing an appeal with honest criticism from a neutral source.

Do you have what it takes to thrive in appellate law?

What would you say to a young lawyer or law student who wanted to be an appellate lawyer, or an older lawyer who would like to take on appellate cases?

The conclusion of an appellate court's term provides a target window for constitutional law specialists and others to dissect the latest rulings and explain what they mean in real - world terms.

Without the overall context that a legal education provides, knowing what issues you should be looking for is difficult or impossible, and this is particular true in Anglo - American common law systems, where the law is embedded in an opaque network of appellate cases rather than laid out more or less completely in a carefully organized statute.

Supplemental fees for posttrial and appellate work are allowed under interpretative case law, with the trial judge exercising judgment in reducing for what he deemed to be excessive work when fashioning his $ 15,000 award.

After all, most of what law students read are appellate decisions, divorced from the human reality that spawned the dispute in the first place.

And, unsurprisingly, he challenged the exclusive use of traditional sources, such as state - enacted law and appellate court decisions, in teaching materials, quipping, «what effect, if any, do appellate decisions have on the way ordinary people live their lives»?

The biggest problem facing the ongoing Oracle v. Google retrial is that Judge Alsup doesn't seem to have swallowed the fact that the IP - specialized Federal Circuit found it hard to believe how one could get copyright law as wrong as he did in this case («confused» is what one of the appellate judges said at the December 2013 hearing).

Chad Hemmat began his legal education serving as a member of the famed Hawaiian law firm of Schutter & Glickstein PC, during the appellate litigation of, what was then, the largest individual jury verdict ever received against General Motors.

The law in 2018 is likely to be substantially different than in years past, which only creates more issues for the appellate courts to attempt to untangle as everyone attempts to make sense of what the new laws mean and how to apply them going forward.

We are at a loss to understand upon what principle of law, applicable to appellate jurisdiction, it can be supposed that this court has not judicial authority to correct the last - mentioned error because they had before corrected the former, or by what process of reasoning it can be made out that the error of an inferior court in actually pronouncing judgment for one of the parties in a case in which it had no jurisdiction can not be looked into or corrected by this court because we have decided a similar question presented in the pleadings.

Moreover, as the Supreme Court explained, «a circuit court appellate decision made according to the forms of law and the rules prescribed for rendering it, although it may be erroneous in its conclusion as to what the law is as applied to facts, is not a departure from the essential requirements of law remediable by certiorari.»

And it's very easy to think of appellate work as similar to what you do in law school and clerking.

In Reilly v. Lynn, 2003 BCCA 49, at para. 92 Southin J.A. (dissenting — the majority specifically disavowed these comments — 2003 BCCA 49, at para. 96), discussing the scope of appellate power to review lower court findings of fact, wrote: «So far as I am concerned what underlies my raising this point is that I have concluded that justice, in the broad sense, is served more often by getting the facts right than by worrying about what the law 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?)

Perhaps this means that what is needed is for some inventive counsel to convince an appellate court to misuse an SCC decision, as plaintiff's counsel did with Walker Estate in Resurfice; or, for a trial judge or appellate court to accept, as I point out in the paper, that the SCC jurisprudence requires the conclusion that, in Canadian negligence law, events may occur without having causes (and not just in Stoner, B.C.).