Harry Steinberg, a partner at Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, writes: They say that the most durable lessons you learn are the ones you learn the hard way. As someone who has been writing appellate briefs ...

Appellate writing is a distilled product. Because everything in the brief (the preliminary statement, what is included in the record and how the record is organized, the framing of the issue, the ...

It is basic, but critical, to persuade the court that the result you seek is the right result. The court has to feel good about ruling in favor of your client. As Judge Gurfein of the Second Circuit ...

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If you get the ABA Litigation magazine, take a look at The Evolved Appellate Brief by Larry A. Klein (Fall 2010, Vol. 37 No.1). The article contains advice that legal writing professors give in class ...

No matter how good the technology is, a virtual appellate oral argument is different from a live one. No matter how good an oral advocate you are, your virtual argument likely will not be quite as ...

Law students and graduates working for judges this summer will find some helpful tips on writing opinions in a recent article by Judge Samuel A. Thumma. Observations of a Rookie Appellate Judge ...