How to Win Appeal Manual - Fourth Edition

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Juris Publishing, Inc., 1. 2. 2015 - 360 strán (strany)

Ralph Adam Fine, a Judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals since 1988, reveals how appellate judges, all over the country in state and federal courts, really decide cases, and how you can use that knowledge to win your appeal. In this lucid, step-by-step manual, Judge Fine explains and demonstrates how to write effective and persuasive briefs that will get the appellate judges to want you to win. The How-To-Win Appeal Manual - Fourth Edition will give you a judge's-eye-view of the appellate process: what works and why, what destroys effective advocacy, and how you can better represent your clients on appeal.

You cannot afford to take or defend another appeal before you read The How-To-Win Appeal Manual!

For the fourth edition, all of the chapters have been revised and updated.

Content Highlights:

How Judges Decide Cases (and Why That is Important To You)Too Many Cases - What the Heavy Appellate Caseloads Mean to You (and How You Can Get Your Briefs Noticed)The BriefHow to Give the Judges the Tools to Decide Your WayThe Keys to Writing an Effective and Persuasive BriefBe Honest and ForthrightHow to Make the Bad Facts Work for YouHow to Write a Powerful and Persuasive "Question Presented"How to Pick Your Best Issues (and Why This is Crucial)How to Write a Powerful and Persuasive "Statement of Facts" That Will Make the Court Want You to WinHow to Write a Powerful and Persuasive "Summary of Argument"How to Make the Statutes Relevant to Your Case Work For YouHow to Write a Forceful and Persuasive "Argument"How to Make the "Statement of the Case" ClearThe Real Role of the "Conclusion"How the Appendix Can Help You WinWhy You Should Always File a Reply Brief If You are the Appellant (and How to Use it to Nail Down Your Win)The Secrets of a Winning Oral Argument"Standards of Review" Dangers and Opportunities: How to Make Them Tools for VictoryHow to Avoid the "Black Hole of Waiver"Why the Typical Appellate Brief is Suicidal (and What you can do to Avoid Common but Deadly Traps)How to Use Unpublished DecisionsAdvocacy in the Real World: A Step-by-Step Analysis of Briefs in Two Real Cases ( A Civil Appeal and a Criminal Appeal)Learn What Appellate Judges Like and What They HatePractice Analyzing Issues to Come up with Winning ThemesPractice Honing-in on Your Most Powerful Points (and How to Avoid the Traps that Snare Other Lawyers)Practice Crafting a Winning, Powerful Brief That Judges Will Love to Read
 

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06I How Judges Decide Cases4th ed
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07II Too Many Cases4th ed
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08III The Brief4th ed
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09IV Oral Argument4th ed
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10V Oral Argument in the Real World4th ed
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11VI Standards of Review4th ed
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12VII Preserves and Toasts4th ed
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13VIII Get Rid of the Clutter4th ed
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14IX Written Advocacy in the Real World4th ed
139
15X Conclusion4th ed
337
16Index How to Win Appeal
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O tomto autorovi (2015)

Ralph Adam Fine has been a judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals since 1988. He served as a trial judge from 1979 to 1988, and presided over more than 350 jury trials. He was the presiding judge in the PBS Frontline production Inside the Jury Room, which was the first time jury deliberations in a criminal trial were filmed and broadcast. Judge Fine has taught trial-advocacy, evidence, and appellate-advocacy at over 150 continuing legal education programs around the country, at in-house trial-advocacy programs to law-firm litigation departments, and as Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C. In January of 1995, the University of Virginia School of Law honored Judge Fine with the Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr., Award for his contributions to the teaching of trial advocacy.

Judge Ralph Adam Fine is the author of The How-To-Win Trial Manual - 5th Edition , The How-To-Win Appeal Manual - 2nd Edition as well as the annually supplemented Fine's Wisconsin Evidence, which Judge Jack B. Weinstein, original co-author of Weinstein's Federal Evidence, called "probably the best single-volume state treatise on the subject that I have seen." Judge Fine is also a senior contributing editor and reporter for the four-volume treatise Evidence in America (Lexis); and a contributing editor of the ABA publication Emerging Problems Under The Federal Rules of Evidence (Lexis 3d ed.). He has analyzed legal issues on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and PBS's The NewsHour.

Bibliografické informácie

NázovHow to Win Appeal Manual - Fourth Edition
AutorRalph Adam Fine
VydavateľJuris Publishing, Inc., 2015
Kód ISBN1578233976, 9781578233977
Dĺžka360 strán (strany)
  
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