As most appellate lawyers around Dallas know, the Fifth Court of Appeals has a reputation (well-earned) for disposing of petitions for mandamus in, let’s say, a summary fashion. Specifically, the mandamus denials, with few exceptions, have consisted of three-sentences memorandum opinions, two of which were reserved for the standard introduction ("The facts are well known

The DRI is sponsoring an Appellate Advocacy seminar in Chicago on July 18th and 19th. 

Highlights of the seminar include a moot argument, discussions on embedded appellate counsel at trial, in-house perspectives on appellate practice, and building an appellate practice.  Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson and current Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman are