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.