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I’ll be Teaching a Seminar on Persuasive Brief Writing for the Birmingham Bar...
I will be teaching the first 40 minutes a 2-hour continuing legal education seminar on brief writing and issue preservation at the Birmingham Bar Association on April 19, 2013. The seminar will be...
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CLE Seminar for the Birmingham Bar Association Was a Big Success.
Last week, I taught the second half of a two-hour CLE seminar for the Birmingham Bar Association titled “Appellate Brief Writing and Preservation of Issues.” Thirty-three lawyers signed up to see Scott...
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Five Signs You Need Assistance With Appellate Brief Writing
Writing appellate briefs isn’t easy because you have to encapsulate your entire case within a relatively small number of pages and have to do so for someone who knows nothing about it before he or she...
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A Critical Transition Period at the Alabama Supreme Court Clerk’s Office.
Institutional knowledge is a collective set of experiences and know-how held by a group of people within a business, government body, or other group and enables it to operate better and more...
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The Most Important Thing I Learned on the Inside of the Alabama Supreme Court.
After finishing law school, I was eager to enter private practice and begin what was for me a new and exciting second career. But I was given the opportunity to accept a clerkship working for Chief...
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Do They Still Teach Ethics in Law School? To All Law Students: Learn to Write...
If you’ve read this blog at all it’s pretty obvious that I currently make my living as a freelance appellate brief writer. Other attorneys hire me to write an appellate brief for their client because...
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Judges Catch On Quick. You Don’t Need Names in Parentheses.
In addition to brief writing, the services I offer other lawyers includes editing the briefs they have written. I get to critique their writing. One of the mistakes I see from good lawyers is that they...
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There’s Something Appealing About the Challenge of an Appellant’s Brief.
In my more than twenty years of lawyering I’ve worked both as an attorney inside the chambers of several Alabama Supreme Court justices and as an advocate for parties in appeals before both state and...
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I’ll Be Teaching a CLE Seminar on Writing Persuasive Appeal Briefs on July...
The President of the Blount County Bar Association has invited me to give a continuing legal education seminar on persuasive brief writing at the next meeting of the Bar, which will be held July 8,...
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The Risks of a “Hinge Point” Appellate Argument.
A “hinge” allows a door to swing left or right, and back again. In making a legal argument, I use the term “hinge point” to refer to a single issue upon which an appeal may be won, or lost. In...
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