Fonts Matter
Yes, please. I'll have my cultural reviews and literary fiction in Comic Sans. Thanks.
**retching**
A little tidbit from Mouth Media Designer's Blog with an article on the topic.
Appellate Advocacy Seminar
Lest you think we at the Appellate Record are all about Texas (or all about me) I wanted to put this little nugget out there for you.
The Appellate Advocacy Seminar conducted by the Defense Research Institute will take place on June 21 and 22 in Cambridge ("our fair city"), MA.
Lots of appellate lawyers and judges from all over the country will be in attendance, which is one of the main reasons I enjoy this event.
I won't be able to attend this year, but AK will be well represented by my partners Scott Brister and Cameron Pope.
AND we're sponsoring the cocktail reception. So we've got that going for us.
Which is nice.
You can download the brochure or follow the link to register.
Coming Soon:22nd Annual Conference on State and Federal Appeals
The legal world is just thrumming with excitement.
Why?
I'm glad you asked.
In a few short weeks Austin will play host to the rip-roaring 22nd Annual Conference on State and Federal Appeals.
And that's not all.
We at the Appellate Record will be speaking. Just look at that superstar faculty list.
I know, right? Almost more fun than someone ought to be allowed to have.
I'll pause to let you catch your breath.
If you look at the course schedule here, you'll see I have the absolute primo time slot:
3:15 on Friday afternoon.
I mean who doesn't want some luscious Supreme Court Updating to go along with a Friday afternoon coma?
The trick of course is how to give an updated Supreme Court talk when course materials are due a month before the course. We have attempted to solve the problem with a paper containing links to this blog where you'll be able to download the updated PowerPoint with up to the minute court stats and decisions on the day of the presentation.
Get the paper here, and keep it on your laptop or tablet so you can link to and download the presentation when the day comes.
This conference is the place to see all your dweebie appellate friends at least once a year. And all levity aside, it really is a must-do event if you are thinking of sitting for the board certification exam this fall.
To Cool Four Shcool
Words You Can't Say In Court
Here at the Appellate Record, we'd like to apologize for the last week. The practice of law has really interfered with the whole blogging thing.
And it's all about you, dear reader.
Actually, it's all about me, but I digress.
While I was out, the Appellate Record has been taking over the world.
Here we are listed amongst 100 Appellate Twitter Feeds to Follow. We're listed 18th. Some might say it's alphabetical, but I prefer to think we rank 18th of 100.
Then there was the Texas Lawyer Article about things you should never say in court.
Many of you sent very kind words and also very interesting e-mails about that article of practice pointers.
After the jump, confirmation from an actual juror that at least one of the practice pointers was correct.
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Announcing My Candidacy
QED
If you do not understand this reference, then you may be too young to have learned the "home keys" on a machine that flung a metal ball at a ribbon impregnated with ink to make a mark on real paper.
Meddling kids.
Zivotofsky v. Clinton: Marbury Lives!
Don't you just love when Chief Justice Roberts goes all 19th Century?
I know I do.
Last week the Court had occasion to revisit Marbury v. Madison, the quintessential judicial power cage match.
In Marbury, Chief Justice John Marshall performed the best feat of judicial judo ever, purporting to restrict the court's jurisdiction, but aggregating power to the court by claiming the right to declare an act of Congress--the Judiciary Act of 1789--unconstitutional.
In Zivotofsky v. Clinton, another chief justice named John (Roberts) did his own judicial Judo. He again protected the "province of the judicial department to say what the law is." And yet, he refused to say what the law was.
After the jump, when middle east politics aren't a political question.
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