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The Appellate Courts Are Watching: Why You Need Appellate Eyes on Your Trial Team

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Trial lawyers often think of appellate issues as something to deal with after the verdict. But by the time a case gets to appeal, much of the damage—or success—has already been baked into the record....more

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Making Your Case: Strategies for Briefing in the Supreme Court of North Carolina

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Appellate practice can be challenging - In complicated cases, it's made all the more challenging by the word limits often imposed by the pertinent rules of procedure. For example, in the North Carolina Court of Appeals,...more

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The Nuts And Bolts Of Local Practice In The Eastern District Of Michigan (Part 2) - A Guide To Practicing In The U.S. District...

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As in the Michigan state court system, most of your time in a federal civil case will be spent on discovery, and most of your interaction with the court will be through motion practice. Different courts have different rules...more

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The Misleading Ellipsis

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The Ninth Circuit recently questioned several appellate lawyers about misleading statements in their briefs, including quotes from cases with ellipses, thereby omitting the very language that showed the quote and case were...more

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The Appellate Oral Argument

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The Appellate Court: An exciting forum of oral advocacy; a check on the process and the decisions of our trial courts; a second chance for parties to make their case; and a place where novel and important legal principles...more

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8 Questions Clients Must Ask About Draft Briefs To Help Win Appeals

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Clients should not be cheerleaders when they review drafts of appellate briefs. They should take steps to make the brief more effective from the judges’ viewpoint. Asking the following questions as they review their lawyers’...more

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Legalizing the Appellate Introduction

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In polite society, it is rude not to introduce yourself, but if you are writing a brief to a Florida appellate court, the issue is complicated. The rule describing the required content of a brief does not describe an...more

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