Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 23, 2009
Ask and You Might Receive
A key tenet of appellate practice can be summed up by the Rolling Stones song that declares "You can't always get what you want," writes Nate Scott.
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By Nate Scott "You can't always get what you want," according to the Rolling Stones' song, "but if you try, sometimes you just might find you get what you need." For lawyers, the key word in the lyric is "try." Lawyers must make an affirmative effort to get what they want from the court. The first step is simply to ask. A lawyer who neglects to ask for what she wants will soon find out she gets neither what she wants nor what she need...
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