Appellate Webinar Series, Session 6 - You Are What You Write! The Ethical Implications of Appellate Brief Writing

Competence, candor, communication, decorum—all of these rules of professional conduct apply to appellate brief writing, often in surprising ways. Can we ghostwrite an appellate brief for a pro se appellant? How much language can we ethically borrow from a treatise or colleague or office boilerplate? What pitfalls await us when we incorporate new tech tools into our brief writing? Join us for this one-hour presentation to find out how paying attention to the ethics of brief writing can help us write appellate briefs that are not just ethically safer, but also more readable and more persuasive.

Presenter:

Paige Nichols has been an appellate practitioner and criminal-defense lawyer for over 30 years. Currently, she is an Assistant Federal Public Defender with the Federal Public Defender of Kansas.

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