The situation is all too familiar to many attorneys: after years of litigation, you and your client have been handed a crushing defeat by one of Pennsylvania's two intermediate appellate courts. Convinced that Superior or Commonwealth Court, as the case may be, "got it all wrong," you want to take your case to the Supreme Court. But how do you persuade the highest court in the commonwealth to take your case? Your first instinct may be to hone in on what you perceive as the most glaring legal errors. While that approach is often sound on direct appeal as of right, it is unlikely to prove fruitful when seeking discretionary appellate review. In fact, as we discuss below, persuading the Supreme Court to take your case requires a unique—and sometime counterintuitive—type of advocacy.