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Appellate Practice

Jan. 4, 2017

Know what the box is before you think outside of it

You can't really understand the forest — the American justice system — in front of you unless you've already viewed some other forests.

Myron Moskovitz

Legal Director
Moskovitz Appellate Team

90 Crocker Ave
Piedmont , CA 94611-3823

Phone: (510) 384-0354

Email: myronmoskovitz@gmail.com

UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hal

Myron Moskovitz is author of Strategies On Appeal (CEB, 2021; digital: ceb.com; print: https://store.ceb.com/strategies-on-appeal-2) and Winning An Appeal (5th ed., Carolina Academic Press). He is Director of Moskovitz Appellate Team, a group of former appellate judges and appellate research attorneys who handle and consult on appeals and writs. See MoskovitzAppellateTeam.com. The Daily Journal designated Moskovitz Appellate Team as one of California's top boutique law firms. Myron can be contacted at myronmoskovitz@gmail.com or (510) 384-0354. Prior "Moskovitz On Appeal" columns can be found at http://moskovitzappellateteam.com/blog.


MOSKOVITZ ON APPEALS

The latest fad in the business world - especially high-tech - is to encourage people to "think outside the box."

This works only if you first have some notion of what "the box" is. "The box" is the way people usually think about a situation, a problem or an industry.

Thinking outside that box is harder and more unusual than you might assume. Indeed, the very people w...

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