Appellate Practice,
Law Practice,
Civil Litigation
Aug. 27, 2018
Don’t walk into a post-trial motion trap
If you lose a trial or dispositive ruling, your first instinct may be to file a post-trial motion. But if you don’t need to preserve an issue and the court didn’t miss anything major, it can be a mistake to bring a post-trial motion without thinking strategically first.
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.
APPELLATE ZEALOTS
If you lose a trial or dispositive ruling, your first instinct may be to file a post-trial motion. No doubt, objections to statements of decision, new trial motions, JNOVs and motions for judgment as a matter of law can be useful tools for relief when the trial court simply missed something critical the first time around or a jury clearly blew it.
Their most common purpose, however, is prese...
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