Research Catalog

Title

Appellate practice manual / Priscilla Anne Schwab, editor.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, c1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• American Bar Association. Section of Litigation.
• Schwab, Priscilla Anne.

Description

vii, 360 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

Appellate procedure > United States

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Before the appeal -- Preserving and assembling the record for appeal: getting through the mine field / James F. Hewitt -- Standards of appellate review / George A. Somerville -- Dangers, toils, and snares: appeals before final judgment / Luther T. Munford -- Interlocutory appeals and mandamus / Walter J. Bonner and William D. Appler -- Post-trial alchemy: judgments notwithstanding the verdict / Franklin A. Nachman -- New Counsel on Appeal? / Dennis J.C. Owens --
• 2. Strategy of the appeal -- Issues, facts, and appellate strategy / Jordan B. Cherrick -- Twenty pages and twenty minutes / John C. Godbold -- Points on apeal / Arthur L. Alarcon -- Some nuts and bolts of appellate advocacy / Jim R. Carrigan -- Tips for appellate advocates / Robert L. Stern -- Reality on appeal / James L. Robertson -- Winning on appeal / Daniel M. Friedman -- Second and third chances on appeal / Dennis J.C. Owens -- Appellate judicial notice: oasis or mirage? / Paul Mark Sandler and Francis B. Burch, Jr. -- Jumping at constitutional questions is risky business / Abner, J. Mikva --
• 3. Language of the appeal -- Why can't lawyers write? / Christopher T. Lutz -- The ba theory of persuasive writing / Miriam Kass -- The language of appellate advocacy / Bryan A. Garner -- The art of brief writing: what a judge wants to read / Albert Tate, Jr. -- Anatomy of the written argument / Gary L. Sasso -- Strategy of the brief / Girvan Peck -- Building a brief / John E. Nelson, Ill. --
• 4. Oral argument -- Time for oral argument / David W. Peck -- Preparing for oral argument / Steven F. Molo and Paul P. Biebel, Jr. -- Appellate advocacy, modern style / Murray I. Gurfein -- The don'ts of oral argument / Roger J. Miner -- Questions, answers, and prepared remarks / Stephen M. Shapiro -- Moot courts: scrimmage for the appellate lawyer / Charles G. Cole -- Brush up your Aristotle / Robert F. Hanley --
• 5. The Supreme Court -- Reflections on the Supreme Court / Potter Stewart -- An invitation to state courts / William J. Brennan, Jr. -- Certiorari petitions in the Supreme Court / A. Raymond Randolph -- Petitioning for certiorari in the big case / Charles G. Cole -- Amicus briefs in the Supreme Court / Stephen M. Shapiro -- Supreme Court advocacy: random thoughts in a day of time restrictions / E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr

ISBN

0897077458

LCCN

^^^92070258^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library