In civil litigation, the trial court’s judgment is often not the last word. If you lose at that the trial court, you may still have a chance to prevail if you can convince the appellate court that the ...

Appellate writing is a distilled product. Because everything in the brief (the preliminary statement, what is included in the record and how the record is organized, the framing of the issue, the ...

Harry Steinberg, a partner at Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, writes: They say that the most durable lessons you learn are the ones you learn the hard way. As someone who has been writing appellate briefs ...