If trial lawyers live for the clinching closing or the cutting cross, appellate lawyers live for oral argument. It’s admittedly not quite as dramatic. In fact, it’s often 20 minutes or so of anticlimax.
Still, through months of combing the record, reading the cases and drafting the brief, oral argument shimmers in the distance. When the big day finally arrives, appellate lawyers understandably see it as their moment to shine. They will deliver carefully worded profundities, eyes will open, and the world will ineluctably see that they have been right all along.
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