H&L's Curt Cutting (aka the punitive damages blogger) will co-present a Strafford 90-minute webinar titled Appellate Practice: Identifying Issues for Appeal, Drafting Questions Presented, and Briefing the Issues on Nov. 29 at 10:00 a.m. PST.
The Constitutional Rights Foundation needs volunteers for its LA County Mock Trial Program tomorrow evening (Nov. 9) and on Nov. 13. Please sign up here.
Also: Save the date of February 20 for the Beverly Hills Bar Association's 8th Annual Litigation Awards Dinner at which 2/3's PJ Edmon will receive the Ron George Award for Judicial Excellence.
In the poor practice category, check out this case here, which includes this line: "For reasons we will discuss below, we conclude plaintiffs’ challenge to the trial court’s ruling on demurrer must be deemed forfeited in light of their failure to comply with mandatory rules of appellate procedure." What rules? Well, for starters, the appellant filed no CT or Appendix and no reply brief...
Urban legends tell of appellate advocates fainting at the lectern... But sometimes the stories are true, as this story, 3rd Circ. Fracking Case Case Put Off After River Basin Atty Faints reports: "[Counsel] collapsed at the podium in the middle of his argument, in which he was making a case for the commission’s jurisdiction over natural gas wells. He quickly regained consciousness and was attended to by medics."
At Above the Law, Mark Herrmann recently posted: Oral Advocacy: One Weird Trick To Help You Answer Questions: 'Yes' or 'no' are exceptionally good answers to questions. Try it sometime.
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