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Advocacy Before The Eleventh Circuit: A Clerk’S Perspective, Kevin Golembiewski, Jessica Arden Ettinger
Advocacy Before The Eleventh Circuit: A Clerk’S Perspective, Kevin Golembiewski, Jessica Arden Ettinger
University of Miami Law Review
Appellate attorneys must tailor their advocacy to the court hearing their appeal. Each court of appeals has different jurisprudence, rules, traditions, and decision-making processes. Yet there are few articles on appellate advocacy tailored to a particular court. We wrote this article to help fill that gap. As former law clerks for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, we offer advice specifically for attorneys who practice before the Eleventh Circuit. Our advice is based on our experiences as clerks, as well as our analysis of the Eleventh Circuit’s rules, procedures, and public statistics. We offer no inside …
Why Don’T Judges Case Manage?, Hon. Jennifer D. Bailey
Why Don’T Judges Case Manage?, Hon. Jennifer D. Bailey
University of Miami Law Review
The problems of cost and delay experienced by parties seeking civil justice have been the subject of complaints for nearly one hundred years, going back to the days of Roscoe Pound. In the past few years, court leadership across the country has emphasized judicial case management as a significant tool for delivery of cost-effective, fair, and timely civil justice. The declining civil caseload has brought new urgency to these problems as evidence grows that litigants are deserting the civil justice system. Calls for case management to contain cost and delay have come from the Chief Justice of the United States, …