Monday, June 17, 2019

Of note...

Last Friday's Recorder's On Appeals column was Appellate Advocacy and the Duty of Candor.

Today's DJ has Moskovitz on Appeals in Using the Record, about the need to cite to the record and how to do so.
Today's DJ also has The Realities of Court Reporting in the 21st Century, which notes:
Evidence in federal courts, progressive states and other countries including the UK and Australia has demonstrated that different capture technologies can successfully coexist, so lawyers can be confident sharing the facts about digital reporting and reassure their court reporters that this is one change that is not to be feared. 
Law360 offers School's Out: Legal Apprentices Take Alternative Path to Bar, about how four states-- Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and California--allow bar-takers to skip law school if they go through an apprentice program. Almost 300 Californians did this in five years (from 2013 to 2018), but the pass rate for apprentices in California was only about 6% (cf., in Vermont it was over 45%).

Here's a published opinion that basically reiterates how statutory automatic stay provisions don't apply to appeals in special proceedings.
Law.com reports: 'It's a Mess': Chief Judge Describes Fallout From Dallas Courthouse Shooting -- "There were some employees of the clerk’s office and United States Attorney's office who were in the line of fire. No one was shot, but one of the assistant U.S. attorneys was injured in the process of ducking to avoid a bullet," said Chief Judge Barbara Lynn