Effective brief writing and oral argument: gaining the inside track.
Florida Bar Journal › Vol. 81 Nbr. 4, April 2007
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Effective brief writing and oral argument: gaining the inside track.
This article is designed to help all practitioners become better brief writers and better presenters at oral argument. To that end, no matter how many briefs a practitioner has written or how many arguments he or she has made, it is always possible to improve. Further, even though a majority of a practitioner's appeals may have been winners, that outcome may have been the result of extraneous factors rather than his or her appellate advocacy. Those factors range from having better facts to having sympathetic judges on the panel. This article will focus on the fundamentals that consistently produce winning appeals.
This article is solely my view of the appellate process, reflecting my nine years as a trial judge and 18 years as an appellate judge. Whi...See the full content of this document
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