Attorney Howard Bashman.

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Upon Further Review

For many attorneys, our first introduction to something resembling appellate litigation occurred in a first-year legal writing and research class, which culminated in being assigned, together with a classmate, to brief and argue a two-issue hypothetical appeal against another two-student team. You were assigned to brief and argue one of the two issues, while your classmate would brief and argue the other issue.

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Only One Advocate Per Side at Oral Argument, Please (Generally Speaking)

Attorneys representing different parties on the same side of an appeal, if at all possible, would likely be advancing the interests of all of their clients by trying to avoid, to the greatest extent possible, dividing the oral argument among two or more lawyers.

November 08, 2021 at 12:24 PM

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