Appellate Practice
May 17, 2016
Appellate oral arguments should stress justice, not case law
The best appellate oral argument themes are short, powerful ideas that sum up the justice of the cause and hit the judges in the guts.
Myron Moskovitz
Legal Director
Moskovitz Appellate Team
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UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hal
MOSKOVITZ ON APPEALS
In a recent column, I opined that most lawyers use appellate oral argument to repeat what's in their briefs - and this is usually a waste of time, a waste of the client's money, and a wasted opportunity. The judges have already read your briefs. Those arguments either worked or they didn't. If they did, you already won. If they didn't, repeating them orally is unlikely to change ...
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