Successful Federal Appeals in All Circuit Courts: A Practical Guide for Busy Lawyers (2d ed. 2015)

This is the second edition of a one-of-a-kind federal, appellate treatise, with updated and expanded chapters that incorporate new legal developments. This appellate treatise uniquely draws upon a board certified appellate specialist’s decades of actual appellate experience and expertise, to help attorneys find the right rules and the pertinent law that they need for effective appellate briefing in all the federal circuit courts of appeals. If handling an appeal, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit through the Eleventh Circuit, this book helps.
This treatise is written by an eminently qualified twenty-plus-year board certified appellate expert. It is written to help busy attorneys work through the complex maze of federal appeals and specialized appellate rules and decisions. Because everything matters in a federal appeal, from the timing of certain forms and events to content to font, this treatise is organized to make that process smoother. It describes, in chronological order, the steps necessary to correctly advance an appeal in each federal circuit court of appeals, from beginning to end. It also addresses issues concerning jurisdiction, finality and appealability of various orders, final appeals and extraordinary writs, how to compile and supplement the record on appeal, compiling court-required appendixes and designations to the record on appeal, motion practice, hearing and rehearing en banc, effective appellate briefs and strategies for response and reply briefs, attorney fees, preservation of error in the lower court before the appeal, and standards of appellate review. This is an invaluable, time-saving resource for attorneys handling federal appeals.