A Practitioner's Guide to Appellate Advocacy takes you step-by-step through the process of appellate advocacy. With diverse viewpoints from appellate advocates in private practice, government and academia, the book provides practical and expert advice for improving your appellate practice. Topics include:

• The appellate court's role in the federal judiciary
• Professionalism and ethics in appellate advocacy
• Preserving issues for appeal , jurisdiction and standard of review
• Electronic filing and initial filing
• Settlement of cases on appeal
• Record on appeal and the joint appendix
• The appellate brief, including the introduction and statement of the issues, substantive statements and summary of argument
• Interjurisdictional certification
• Oral argument
• Post-briefing, post-argument, and post-decision filings

The book also examines the significant variations among the circuits with a focus on each circuit's geographic jurisdiction, its local rules governing motions, mediation, briefs, oral argument, appendices, and the publication of its decisions.