The How-to-Win Appeal Manual - 2nd Edition

Price: $85.00 310 pages. 1 Hardcover Volume. Index. Published March 2008.
ISBN-13: 978-1-933833-12-5

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Table of Contents

About the Book:
Ralph Adam Fine, a Judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals since 1988, reveals how appellate judges really decide cases, and how you can use that knowledge to win your appeal. In this lucid, step-by-step manual, Judge Fine explains and demonstrates how to write effective and persuasive briefs that will get the appellate judges to want you to win. The How-To-Win Appeal Manual - 2nd Edition will give you a judge's-eye-view of the appellate process: what works and why, what hinders effective advocacy, and how you can better represent your clients on appeal.

You cannot afford to take or defend another appeal before you read The How-To-Win Appeal Manual!

Praise for The How-To-Win Appeal Manual

"Wish all of my lawyers got a chance to study it."
- Honorable Alex Kozinski, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“This is a useful guidebook. It is not the first book on appeals written by an appellate judge, but it
is a good one. Overall, this is a good buy. You might want later to pass it on to a younger lawyer.”
- The Appellate Practice Journal, (Section of Litigation, American Bar Association)

• How Judges Decide Cases (and Why That is Important To You)
• Too Many Cases - What the Heavy Appellate Caseloads Mean to You (and How You Can
  Get Your Briefs Noticed)
• The Brief
• How to Give the Judges the Tools to Decide Your Way
• The Keys To Writing an Effective and Persuasive Brief
• Be Honest and Forthright
• How To Make the Bad Facts Work For You
• How To Write a Powerful and Persuasive "Question Presented"
• How To Pick Your Best Issues (and Why This Is Crucial)
• How To Write a Powerful and Persuasive "Statement of Facts" That Will Make the Court Want You to Win
• How To Write a Powerful and Persuasive "Summary of Argument"
• How To Make the Statutes Relevant to Your Case Work For You
• How To Write a Forceful and Persuasive "Argument"
• How To Make the "Statement of the Case" Clear
• The Real Role of the "Conclusion"
• How the Appendix Can Help You Win
• Why You Should Always File a Reply Brief If You Are the Appellant (and How to Use It To Nail Down Your Win)
• The Secrets of a Winning Oral Argument
• "Standards of Review" Dangers and Opportunities: How To Make Them Tools for Victory
• How To Avoid the Black Hole of "Waiver"
• Why the Typical Appellate Brief Is Suicidal (and What You Can Do Avoid Common, But Deadly, Traps)
• How To Use Non-published Decisions
• Advocacy in the Real World: A Step-By-Step Analysis of Briefs in Two Real Cases (A Civil Appeal and a Criminal Appeal)
• Learn What Appellate Judges Like and What They Hate
• Practice Analyzing Issues To Come Up With Winning Themes
• Practice Honing-In On Your Most Powerful Points (and How To Avoid the Traps That Snare Other Lawyers)
• Practice Crafting A Winning, Powerful Brief That Judges Will Love to Read

"A succinct, masterful approach to trying cases."
- Gregory P. Joseph, Partner, Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC, New York and Former Chair
(1997-98) of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association.

"Judge Ralph Adam Fine’s The How-To-Win Trial Manual is filled with fresh ideas. By giving
lawyers a new point of view, Judge Fine’s book will make them better advocates."
- Professor James W. McElhaney, Joseph C. Hostetler Professor of Trial Practice and Advocacy
at Case Western Reserve Law School, Columnist on trial practice for the ABA Journal, and Senior
Editor and Columnist for Litigation, the journal of the ABA Section of Litigation.

"The best little book that I've ever seen . . . so practical . . . I carry that book with me every place."
- James P. Linn, Linn & Neville, Oklahoma City, OK.

About the Author:
Ralph Adam Fine has been a judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals since 1988. He served as a trial judge from 1979 to 1988, and presided more than 350 jury trials. He was the presiding judge in the PBS Frontline production Inside the Jury Room, which was the first time jury deliberations in a criminal trial were filmed and broadcast. Judge Fine has taught trial-advocacy, evidence, and appellate-advocacy at over one-hundred continuing-legal-education programs around the country, at in-house trial-advocacy programs to law-firm litigation departments, and as Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C. In January of 1995, the University of Virginia School of Law honored Judge Fine with the Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr., Award for his contributions to the teaching of trial advocacy.

Judge Fine is the author of The How-To-Win Trial Manual - 4th Edition , The How-To-Win Appeal Manual - 2nd Edition as well as Fine's Wisconsin Evidence (Juris), which Judge Jack B. Weinstein, original co-author of Weinstein's Federal Evidence, called "probably the best single-volume state treatise on the subject that I have seen." Judge Fine is also a senior contributing editor and reporter for the four-volume treatise Evidence in America (Lexis); and a contributing editor of the ABA publication Emerging Problems Under The Federal Rules of Evidence (Lexis 3d ed.). He has analyzed legal issues on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and PBS' The NewsHour, as well as a periodic guest on Crossfire and Larry King Live.

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