Appellate Practice

Mindy Daniels, My Reluctant Mentor

December 20, 2012 Appellate Practice

She doesn’t know it yet but Mindy Daniels is going to be my mentor on all things having to do with the D.C. Court of Appeals. One of the first things I do whenever I start out in a new jurisdiction is to decide which lawyers I admire most. I then glom onto them. I [...]

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Playing Fair in Appellate Practice

December 15, 2012 Appellate Practice

I get the government’s response to my first appellate brief, and I realize that this appellate work is going to be much harder than I had anticipated. Never having done appeals before, I am used to dealing with overworked county prosecutors who cut-and-paste their responses to my filings (motions to sever, to suppress, to compel, [...]

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