2021 Summer Edition

In this Issue

Appellate Practice

Editor's Note

By Nancy M. Olson

Welcome to the Technology Issue of Appellate Issues. This themed issue features a number of articles focusing on the role technology plays across various aspects of appellate practice.

Courts & Judiciary

Modern Brief Readability (tl;dr)

By Linda L. Morkan

As an enthusiastic consumer of advice on effective and persuasive legal writing, I have read all the tomes from all the experts. I know how to organize my briefs logically, compose compelling paragraphs, choose power words, avoid hyperbole, and...

Rule Of Law

Finding Your Way in a World of Data

By Kirk Jenkins

For generations, appellate lawyers – like lawyers generally - have offered clients predictions of the future based upon a combination of experience, anecdotal information and (occasionally unjustified) optimism...

Courts & Judiciary

Keys to Effective Appellate Blogging

By Steve Emmert

Take a moment to envision the dominant appellate website or blog in your jurisdiction. If you just said, “It’s mine,” congratulations. If you took a moment just now to run a quick check and didn’t find anything, keep reading.

Courts & Judiciary

Can You Hear Me Now?: What COVID-19 Taught Us About Technology

By Ellie Roohani

In early 2020, no one could have predicted the impact COVID-19 would have on the world, including the crash course in technology that became necessary to maintain a surviving and thriving appellate practice.

Renew Your ABA Membership

2021 Summer Edition

Will SCOTUS Continue to Livestream Oral Arguments and are Cameras Next? Let's Hope So.

In this Issue

Editor's Note

Modern Brief Readability (tl;dr)

Finding Your Way in a World of Data

Keys to Effective Appellate Blogging

Can You Hear Me Now?: What COVID-19 Taught Us About Technology

ABA Resources

The ABA

Connect

Renew Your ABA Membership

American Bar Association TM American Bar Association

2021 Summer Edition

Will SCOTUS Continue to Livestream Oral Arguments and are Cameras Next? Let's Hope So.

In this Issue

Editor's Note

Modern Brief Readability (tl;dr)

Finding Your Way in a World of Data

Keys to Effective Appellate Blogging

Can You Hear Me Now?: What COVID-19 Taught Us About Technology

Council of Appellate Lawyers

ABA Resources

The ABA

Connect