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Appellate Advocacy

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Appellate Advocacy

  Principles of appellate advocacy / Daniel P. Selmi, Fritz B. Burns Professor of Law, Loyola Law Scho  .New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, [2013]   Call #  KF9050 .S45 2013  

 Mastering appellate advocacy and process / Donna C. Looper and George W. Kuney. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2011.  Call # KF9050 .L66 2011  

  A practical guide to appellate advocacy / Mary Beth Beazley. New York : Aspen Publishers, 2010.  Call # KF251 .B42 2010 

  Federal appellate practice / Mayer Brown LLP ; editor-in-chief Philip Allen Lacovara ; contributing  Arlington, VA : Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 2008.  Call #  KF9050.Z9 F32  

    Appellate advocacy and moot court / Michael D. Murray and Christy Hallam DeSanctis.  New York, NY : Foundation Press ; [St. Paul, Minn.] : Thomson/West, 2006.  Call # KF251 .M88 2006  

    Effective appellate advocacy / Frederick Bernays Wiener ; Christopher T. Lutz and William Pannill, e  Chicago, Ill. : Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, c2004.  Call #  KF9050 .W5 2004  

 

  Appellate advocacy in a nutshell / by Alan D. Hornstein.  St. Paul, Minn. : West Group, 1998.  Call # KF9050.Z9 H668 1998  

 Appellate Practice, 2d (Vol. 24, Missouri practice. ) St. Paul, Minn. : West Pub. Co., [1953-]   Call # KFM7880 .M5  

 

Appellate advocacy : principles and practice / Ursula Bentele, Eve Cary.  Cincinnati : Anderson Pub. Co., c1998.  Call # KF9050.A7 B46 1998  

Appellate court practice in civil cases / moderator, Harold L. Lowenstein ; faculty, Charles B. Blac   Kansas City, Mo. : Continuing Legal Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City, c1990. Call # KFM8330.A2 A6 1990   

Missouri appellate practice and extraordinary remedies.  Jefferson City : Missouri Bar, ©1989-   Call #  KFM8355 .M58 1989

Appellate practice in the United States / Robert L. Stern.  Washington, D.C. : Bureau of National Affairs, ©1989.  Call # KF9050 .S75 1989  

Federal appellate practice.  New York, N.Y. : Practising Law Institute, ©1984-   Call #  KF9050.Z9 F32  

Appellate courts in the United States and England / forewords by Lord Evershed and William J. Brenna  [New York] : New York University Press, 1963. Call #  K2120 .K37  

The moot court book : a student guide to appellate advocacy / John T. Gaubatz, Taylor Mattis.  Charlottesville, Va. : Michie Co., ©1994.  Call # KF281.A2 G38 1994    

The ways of a judge : reflections from the Federal Appellate Bench / Frank M. Coffin. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1980.  Call # KF8750 .C63   

Preludes to Gideon ; notes on appellate advocacy, habeas corpus, and constitutional litigation.  Meador, Daniel John. Charlottesville, Va. : Michie Co., [1967]  Call # KF9646 .M4  

 

  Nobody's perfect : comparative essays on appeals and other means of recourse against judicial decisi Cambridge ; Antwerp : Intersentia ; [Maastricht] : Metro, 2014.  Call # K2350.A6 N63 2014  

    Supreme Court practice : for practice in the Supreme Court of the United States / Eugene Gressman ..  Arlington, VA : BNA Call #  KF9057 .S8 2013  

 

    The complete advocate : a practice file for representing clients from beginning to end / A.G. Harmon  New Providence, NJ : LexisNexis, c2010.  Call #  KF300 .H368 2010  

  Patent appeals : the elements of effective advocacy in the Federal Circuit / Mark Simon Davies.  New York : Oxford University Press, c2008. Call # KF3155 .D38 2008  

 

   Making your case : the art of persuading judges / Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner.  St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, c2008.  Call # KF8870 .S28 2008  

 

  Decision making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals / Frank B. Cross. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.  Call # KF8990 .C76 2007   

Federal standards of review : review of district court decisions and agency actions / Harry T. Edwar  St. Paul, Minn. : Thomson West, c2007.  Call #  KF9050 .E38 2007   

Mediation & conference programs in the federal courts of appeals : a sourcebook for judges and lawye Niemic, Robert J., [Washington, D.C.] : Federal Judicial Center, 2006. Call #  JU 13.2:M 46/2006  

  Judicial opinion writing handbook / by Joyce J. George. Buffalo, N. Y. : Hein & Co., 2006.  Call #  KF250 .G46 2007  

  Justice denied : clemency appeals in death penalty cases / Cathleen Burnett.  Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2002.  Call #  KF8365.C2 .B87 2002  

Professional judgment on appeal : bringing and opposing appeals / Steven Wisotsky.  Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2002.  Call # KF9050 .W57 2002 

 

 

Writing Appellate Briefs

  Persuasive written and oral advocacy in trial and appellate courts / Michael R. Fontham, Michael Vit  New York : Aspen Law & Business, c2002.  Call # KF251 .F658 2002  

 

Appellate practice handbook : a guide to appellate procedure and brief writing / Edward J. Horowitz. Seattle, Wash. : Butterworth Legal Publishers, ©1982.  Call # KF9050.Z9 H67 1982  

The winning brief : 100 tips for persuasive briefing in trial and appellate courts / Bryan A. Garner  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004. Call # KF251 .G37 2004  

The question presented : model appellate briefs / Maria L. Ciampi, William H. Manz.  Cincinnati, Ohio : Anderson Pub. Co., c2000.  Call #  KF251 .C53 2000 

    A brief guide to brief writing : demystifying the memorandum of law / Janet S. Kole.   Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, [2013]  Call #  KF251 .K65 2013  

   Aspen handbook for legal writers : a practical reference / Deborah E. Bouchoux, Esq., Georgetown Uni  New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, [2013]   Call #  KF250 .B68 2013  

   Legal reasoning and legal writing / Richard K. Neumann, Jr., Professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane Scho  New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, [2013]   Call # KF250 .N48 2013 

   Professional writing for lawyers : skills and responsibilities / Margaret Z. Johns, Clayton S. Tanak  Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2012.  Call #  KF250 .J64 2012  

Legal reasoning, writing, and other lawyering skills / Robin Wellford Slocum. New Providence, NJ : LexisNexis, c2011.  KF250 .S568 2011  

  Mastering legal analysis and drafting / George W. Kuney, Donna C. Looper.  Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2009.  Call #   KF250 .K86 2009 

 Winning on appeal : better briefs and oral argument / by Ruggero J. Aldisert.Notre Dame, Ind. : National Institute for Trial Advocacy, c2003. Call # KF9050 .A935 2003 

Legal writing by design : a guide to great briefs and memos / Teresa J. Reid Rambo and Leanne J. Pfl  Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2001.   Call #   KF250 .R355 2001 

   Writing to win : the legal writer / Steven D. Stark.  New York : Main Street Books, c1999.  Call #  KF250 .S8 1999  

Manuals for Appellate Advocacy

   Federal Appellate Court law clerk handbook / Joseph L. Lemon, Jr. Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, c2007.             Call # KF8807 .L46 2007  

 

  The how-to-win appeal manual : winning appellate advocacy in a nutshell / by Ralph Adam Fine.  Huntington, N.Y. : JurisNet, c2008

    Advocacy on appeal / Bradley G. Clary, Sharon Reich Paulsen, Michael J. Vanselow.  St. Paul, MN : Thomson West, c2004.  Call # KF9050 .C53 2004  Manual

    Federal Court of Appeals manual : a manual on practice in the United States Courts of Appeals / by D  Knibb, David G. St. Paul, MN. : West Group, 2000.  Call #   KF9052 .K63 2000  2006