CLA's CAC wants you!

CLA's Committee on Appellate Courts is seeking new members! Applications are due by May 31, and can be submitted via the online portal. To learn more information about the CAC, please see below and visit the CAC webpage.

Established by the State Bar in 1970 and made a State Bar standing committee in 1973, the Committee on Appellate Courts is now a standing committee of CLA’s Litigation Section. Its members are drawn from diverse sources including law firms, solo practitioners, defense, and prosecution offices handling criminal appeals, appellate court research staff, and law school faculty. In furtherance of the administration of justice, the charge of the committee is as follows:

• provide members of the State Bar of California with quality continuing education on appellate practice, including programs that meet the standards for the State Bar’s appellate specialization requirements;
• comment on proposed changes to court rules in state and federal courts that affect appellate practice in California; and
• when possible, initiate or support programs for providing pro bono appellate assistance, mentoring inexperienced appellate attorneys, helping pro se litigants on appeal, and making legal education programming affordable for all attorneys, and other special projects.

CAC is committed to including attorneys from a broad range of subject areas and practice types, including civil and criminal appellate practitioners, large firm attorneys and solo practitioners, government, court, and non-profit attorneys, and academics. In selecting new members, the Committee also seeks diversity in terms of practice area, geographic location, ethnicity, and gender/gender identity.