Appellate Practice
Jul. 5, 2023
Y’all behave now: looking to Texas for appellate civility standards
California appellate courts and appellate bar organizations could easily modify, adopt, and perhaps improve on the templates set by the Seventh Circuit and Texas.
Benjamin G. Shatz
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Appellate Law (Certified), Litigation
Email: bshatz@manatt.com
Benjamin is a certified specialist in appellate law who co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group at Manatt in the firm's Los Angeles office. Exceptionally Appealing appears the first Tuesday of the month.
Current events make clear that California is very different from Texas. But one way these states are similar is in having highly developed specialty bars devoted to appellate practice. Each state has numerous appellate courts and certified appellate specialists. (Appellate certification began in Texas in 1987 and in California in 1995.)
One way in which Texas stands out is that, in 1999 - a dozen years after the Texas State Bar began certi...
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