Winning On Appeal: Better Briefs and Oral Argument, Second Edition

Winning On Appeal: Better Briefs and Oral Argument, Second Edition

<b><i>Winning on Appeal</i></b> has been adopted by top-flight law schools for appellate advocacy courses. It also has become a popular desk reference on how to write an effective brief and deliver a persuasive oral argument.<br /><br /> <br /><br />In the <b>Second Edition</b>, Ruggero J. Aldisert, a 40-year veteran of the federal appeals bench, fundamentally reorganizes the book. By creating 25 chapters in place of the previous 17, Aldisert creates a wonderfully instructive how-to manual for the appellate advocate and a must volume for those who select appellate advocates.<br /><br /><br /><br />Throughout <b><i>Winning on Appeal</i></b>, 19 current chief justices of state courts, nine chief judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals, more than 20 U.S. Circuit and state appellate judges contribute their thoughts on how to write a brief and how to argue a case-information that is not available in any other publication or resource. Judge Aldisert draws the perfect roadmap for the attorney who wants to win on appeal.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Reviews</b><br /><br /><br /><br />"With 35 years on the appellate bench, Judge Aldisert has a huge network of friends in judicial and appellate practitioner ranks - people who now provide quotable guidance throughout his book, in one or a few sentences, on everything from perfecting the written argument to pet peeves, from vignettes on being persuasive to a "compendium of advice" on what makes a brief effective."<br /><br />-Oregon Bar Bulletin<br /><br />"<b><i>Winning on Appeal</i></b> is an impressive achievement. Appellate lawyers and judges will profit immensely from consulting it."<br /><br />-William J. Brennan, Jr., Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1957-1990)<br /><br />"Told from a judge's viewpoint, the book is an expose of appellate lawyering from the other side of the bench. It fills a curious void in the existing literature on appellate advocacy, until now authored almost exclusively by non-judges. While practitioners and academics often have invaluable insights, theirs is only half the story."<br /><br />-Alex Kozinski, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit