Upcoming appellate seminars

Attention appellate lawyers: Here are some upcoming seminars you should know about.

First: DRI (Defense Research Institute) is holding its appellate seminar on March 9-10, 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona. Details are here. As a member of the DRI Appellate Advocacy Committee, I may be biased, but DRI seminars as a rule are very good, and the appellate seminars (I've attended all of them) have been excellent.

Second: I'm informed by La. Supreme Court Justice (Retired) Harry Lemmon (a friend and sometimes adversary) that the ABA Council of Appellate Lawyers and Appellate Judges' Conference will hold their joint seminar in Dallas, Texas on November 9-11, 2006. The attendance at this seminar is usually split 50-50 between lawyers and judges, so it's a great opportunity for the two groups to get to know each other socially.

For the immediate future, Harry and I will present a one-hour session on Louisiana appellate practice as part of the La. State Bar Association's Bridging the Gap program, a two-day seminar for newly minted lawyers, designed to "bridge the gap" between law school and law practice. The seminar will be held on January 26-27 in New Orleans; Harry's and my presentation will be on Friday, Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m. We plan to present the nuts-and-bolts for filing appellate briefs, applications for supervisory writs, and (in the La. Supreme Court) applications for writs of certiorari or review.