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• Beware This All-Too-Common Pitfall of the Appellate Brief
• Steady, but Slow: Understanding and Navigating Delay in Federal Courts
• The First Principle of Effective Advocacy: Speak the Truth
• Sitting at Counsel Table Before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Don't Hold Your Fire: How to Oppose Dispositive Motions
• Silly Lawyer Tricks XXXIV
• Silly Lawyer Tricks XXVI. Whether or not the attorney's story is the electronic version of 'the dog ate my homework,' it is a cautionary tale
• Views from the Bench: Interviews with Leading Women Appellate Jurists. Insights into effective briefing and oral argument as well as advice for those considering a path to the bench
• Young Lawyers: Why You Should Take a Pro Bono Appeal. Pro bono appeals are often overlooked as a way to give back to the community, but are worth considering for a number of reasons
• Legal Advocacy as Interactive Storytelling. An advocate employs similar techniques to those used to tell interactive stories in a totally different medium: video games

Featured documents

• Views from the Bench: Interviews with Leading Women Appellate Jurists. Insights into effective briefing and oral argument as well as advice for those considering a path to the bench
• Finding Your Calling: Pro Bono as a Path to New Practice Areas. Attorneys at all levels may wish to give back and serve the underserved. But few expect to find their calling
• Consequences of Mootness on Appeal. The factors the courts consider relevant in determining when the order dismissing an appeal should also vacate the previous judgment.
• Beware This All-Too-Common Pitfall of the Appellate Brief
• Legal Advocacy as Interactive Storytelling. An advocate employs similar techniques to those used to tell interactive stories in a totally different medium: video games
• Silly Lawyer Tricks XXIV. There are appropriate places for a haiku or to quote Bugs Bunny, but an appellate brief is not one of them
• Silly Lawyer Tricks XX. The traditional rules still apply?three strikes and you're out!
• Silly Lawyer Tricks XXV. You're probably not on the winning side of the argument when the court uses the term 'striking legal emptiness
• What You Need to Know about #AppellateTwitter. #AppellateTwitter can be more than a place to 'nerd out' about legal writing or the law
• A Brief History of Women Advocates at the U.S. Supreme Court. To fully understand the relationship of women to the U.S. Supreme Court, we must reach back to the beginnings of our country