Civil Litigation,
Law Practice,
Appellate Practice
Feb. 21, 2018
Appellate magic relies on trial lawyer preparation
What looks so easy for a magician usually comes from a lot of practice and advance planning. Tricky devices set up just-so, planted audience-members volunteering at the right time, and years of practice.
Ben Feuer
Chairman
Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP
Appellate Law
Email: ben.feuer@calg.com
Northwestern Univ School of Law
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Appellate lawyers can seem to perform a kind of magic. They use mystical-sounding terms like "supersedeas," and peer at cases through crystalline prisms called "standards of review." They bury themselves in old books, saw precedents in half, and sometimes pull victory from behind the ear of defeat.
What looks so easy for a magician, though, usually comes from a lot of practice and a...
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