Preface

• Library: Appellate Practice - Virginia and Federal Courts (Virginia CLE) (2016 Ed.)

PREFACE

Publishing a book—especially one with a target audience of well-educated professionals—is Darwinian. If your early efforts flop, your book dies. If those early efforts succeed, you may get to a sixth edition.

You're holding the latest iteration in a highly successful long-range project. The early editions of this handbook were midwifed by a giant of Virginia's appellate bar, the late Judge R. Terrence Ney of Fairfax. In the preface to the very first edition of Appellate Practice—Virginia and...