Appellate Practice,
Law Practice,
Civil Litigation
Feb. 21, 2018
Appellate magic relies on trial lawyer preparation
What looks so easy for a magician usually comes from a lot of practice and advance planning. Tricky devices set up just-so, planted audience-members volunteering at the right time, and years of practice.
Ben Feuer
Chairman
California Appellate Law Group LLP
Appellate Law
96 Jessie St
San Francisco , CA 94105
Phone: (415) 649-6700
Email: ben@calapplaw.com
Northwestern Univ School of Law
Ben handles civil and business appeals in the 9th Circuit and California Courts of Appeal. He is a former 9th Circuit law clerk and co-chair of the Appellate Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. the Daily Journal named Ben as one of the Top 40 Under 40 lawyers in California for 2018.
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Appellate lawyers can seem to perform a kind of magic. They use mystical-sounding terms like "supersedeas," and peer at cases through crystalline prisms called "standards of review." They bury themselves in old books, saw precedents in half, and sometimes pull victory from behind the ear of defeat.
What looks so easy for a magician, though, usually comes from a lot of practice and a...
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