Author: David C. FrederickPublisher: West Group Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy
Author: David C. FrederickPublisher: West Group Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Advanced Appellate Advocacy
Author: Susan E. Provenzano, Sarah O. Schrup, Carter G. Phillips, Jeffrey T. GreenPublisher: Aspen Publishing
ISBN: 9781454847205
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Advanced Appellate Advocacy is a mastery textbook, designed to bridge students from second and third semester writing courses to appellate simulations and clinics that involve substantial writing projects. Because it offers a robust appellate education, conveying the creativity, strategy, and sophistication behind real appeals, the text can also serve as a handbook for new lawyers entering appellate practice. This textbook is a first-of-its kind collaboration among authors with decades of appellate practice and clinical and legal writing teaching among them. The author team includes Carter Phillips, one of the most highly rated Supreme Court advocates of our time. Advanced Appellate Advocacy also uses charts, diagrams, and reflection questions to engage readers, and practice pointers based on the authors' interviews with appellate specialists and their own practice experiences are sprinkled throughout the chapters. The text is enriched by an on-line companion that houses all of the text's exercises, additional briefs and working documents, and interviews with prominent appellate practitioners. Features: Organized to track the progress of an appeal, the text offers students explicit process-based guidance linked to each phase Going Beyond IRAC, the text teaches more flexible, sophisticated writing approaches, illustrating them with models from expert appellate briefs Includes charts, diagrams, examples, and reflection questions
Brief Writing and Oral Argument
Author: Edward Domenic RePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of DelegatesPublisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Effective Appellate Advocacy
Author: Frederick Bernays WienerPublisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590312346
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
How can you best persuade an appellate court to decide a case in your favor? This book is packed with useful examples and clever ancedotes that will sharpen your presentation and argument skills for use at the state, federal and Supreme Court level.
Appellate Advocacy in a Nutshell
Author: Alan D. HornsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Effective Advocacy: in General; Theme; Structure; Appellate Process: Overview, Review Standards, Record, Jurisdiction. Multi-Judge Panels; Levels of Review: State Intermediate Courts, State Courts of Last Retort, Federal Courts of Appeals, Supreme Court; Taxonomy of Cases: Importance of Classification, Procedure; Criminal, Contracts, Torts, Administrative, Statutory, Constitutional; Arguments: In General, Fact; Doctrine, Policy; Process, Institutional; The Brief: Formalities, Petitioner, Respondent, Reply Briefs, Amicus, Questions Presented, Front Matter, Point Headings, Statement of Facts, Summary of Argument, Footnotes; Oral Argument: Preparation, Formalities, Style, First Petitioner, Second Petitioner, First Respondent, Second Respondent, Rebuttal, Authority, Hot and Cold Benches, Questions, Concluding; A Way of Working: Planning the Oral Argument, Learning From Experience, Planning, Performing and Reviewing Recursively (The Brief); Integrity of Argument.
Supreme Court Practice
Author: Robert L. SternHandbook of Appellate Advocacy
Author: UCLA Moot Court Honors ProgramPublisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This volume is designed to assist the inexperienced advocate to write a persuasive brief within a predetermined framework. As a handbook, certain subjects have been treated in a cursory manner, and throughout the book reference is made to other sources. This third edition includes streamlined and simplified text in keeping with the continuing trend towards clearer and simpler legal writing. The first chapter deals with preparation prior to writing a brief. Chapter Two discusses the elements of an appellate brief.
Point Made
Author: Ross GubermanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199943850
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In Point Made, Ross Guberman uses the work of great advocates as the basis of a valuable, step-by-step brief-writing and motion-writing strategy for practitioners. The author takes an empirical approach, drawing heavily on the writings of the nation's 50 most influential lawyers.
The Art of Oral Advocacy
Author: David C. FrederickPublisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9780314195012
Category : Appellate procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book reveals the inside secrets from one of the country's leading Supreme Court advocates about how to prepare to argue in court. Chapters in this book address organizing an approach to preparation, handling the wide range of questions judges ask, honing openings, basic approaches to presenting argument, common mistakes, and attributes of the best advocates. Throughout, the author illustrates points with examples from real cases. It is ideal for first-year writing and advocacy programs, for upper-level appellate advocacy courses and clinics, for moot court competitions, and as a review resource for attorneys.