The Appellate Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association will have its final meeting of the year on Thursday, December 17th, at noon at the Belo Mansion. Kirsten M. Castañeda of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell will present an United States Supreme Court Update. Also, as this is the annual business meeting, election of officers for 2010 will take place.
The Texas State Bar's Annual Appellate Practice courses are right around the corner. The Nuts and Bolts of Appellate Practice is scheduled for Wednesday, September 9, 2009, and the Advanced Appellate Practice course is scheduled for Thursday, September 10, 2009, and Friday, September 11, 2009. If you can't make that date, the course will be replayed on video in Dallas on October 7th, 8th, and 9th. For more information and for registration, click here.
The Defense Research Institute (DRI) Appellate Advocacy section is hosting its eighth Appellate Advocacy Seminar in La Jolla, California. That seminar is scheduled for Thursday, November 5, 2009, and Friday, November 6, 2009. Distinguished speakers include Texas's own Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson. For more information and for registration, click here.
On January 30, 2009, the Tarrant County Appellate Section is sponsoring a Brown Bag Seminar at Texas Wesleyan Law School in Fort Worth entitled "Fighting the Forum: Avoiding Litigation in Texas State Court." Topics will include Special Appearance, Forum Non Conveniens, Arbitration, Forum Selection Clauses, and Removal and Remand--all topics that are near and dear to appellate practitioners.
The seminar will be held at the Texas Wesleyan University Law School, 1515 Commerce St., in Fort Worth, TX. Registration begins at 12:00pm. The seminar will conclude at 4:45pm with a reception to follow.
Early registration is $70 for TCBA members, $95 for non-members. Late and on-site registration is $75 for TCBA members and $100 for non-members. For additional information, contact Sherry Jones at 817-338-4092.
The State Bar of Texas is sponsoring its 2009 Practice Before the Supreme Court on April 17, 2009, in Austin Texas. The one-day course will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center located at 1900 University Avenue.
The course will cost $325 ($275 for early bird registrants) and is worth approximately 5.5 hours of CLE credit. A tentative brochure for the program may be found at this link.
We want to announce some upcoming continuing education opportunities of interest to Appellate Practitioners.
The Dallas Bar Association, Appellate Law Section will have its monthly noon CLE on Thursday, November 20, 2008. The keynote speaker is David Horan of Jones Day who will speak about Federal Interlocutory appeals. Casey Kaplan of the K&L Gates firm will be the introductory speaker. The meeting will occur at the Belo Mansion in Dallas, Texas.
The Collin County Bar Association will meet at noon on Friday, November 21, 2008. The speaker will be Greg Lensing, Staff Attorney for the Dallas Court of Appeals, who will speak on Special Appearances and Personal Jurisdiction in Texas. The meeting will be held at Ralph & Kacoo's on Central Expressway in Allen, Texas.
Other upcoming seminars for Appellate Practitioners are listed below:
The University of Texas School of Law has scheduled its annual symposium on January 22-23, 2009, in the Eidman Courtroom at the University of Texas School of Law. This year's symposium is entitled “The Rise of Appellate Litigators and State Solicitors General,” and is scheduled to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Office of Texas Solicitor General.
The first day of the symposium will focus on appellate litigators in the private bar, and panel topics tentatively include "The Rise of the Appellate Litigator" and "Appellate Litigation from the Client's Perspective." The second day of the symposium will focus on state solicitors general and tentatively includes panel discussions on "State Solicitors General & the United States: A View from Washington," "Representing the States in the United States Supreme Court," and "The Impact of State Solicitors General on Appellate Litigation: A View from the Bench." Admission is free, but we are offering CLE credit for a fee of $150.00. For more information, about the symposium, click on this link.
The American Bar Association Appellate Practice Institute is hosting a national appellate practice workshop on May 29-31, 2009, at Northwestern Law School in Chicago. Further information may be found at this link.
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