Each participant will have a personal brief-critiquing session with one of three faculty members who will lead assigned small group workshop sessions. Workshop sessions will permit informal exchanges with two judges and with seasoned lawyers. Each participant will argue before a three-judge panel who will give immediate feedback and a constructive critique of his or her oral argument of the actual case especially prepared for the 12th Appellate Practice Institute. The Appellate Practice Institute is designed for private and public practitioners who currently appear in federal and state appellate courts as well as for those attorneys who want to prepare themselves for appellate practice. The program will review brief preparation, appellate writing skills, pitfalls of appellate advocacy and oral advocacy, and will provide an insight into expectations and perspectives from the bench.
Every appellate advocate can benefit from knowing how appellate judges view appellate lawyers.
Experienced advocates and repeat participants alike have expressed great satisfaction and appreciation of the skills honed and arts refined by attendance. What You Will Experience Upon registration, each participant is assigned to write a brief for either an appellant or appellee. There is a 15-page limit to briefs. A model appellant brief is sent to those assigned to write an appellee brief. All briefs are due by May 1, 2000.