Virtual Training Event Description
Appellate Webinar Series, Session 9: Navigating the Cert Stage
This presentation will help federal criminal defense practitioners navigate the certiorari stage in order to maximize the odds of obtaining review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Topics may include: framing an effective petition for certiorari; parsing briefs in opposition by the Solicitor General; drafting an effective cert. reply; understanding the Court’s distribution schedule and calendar; securing amicus support; and determining whether and when to co-counsel with an outside firm/organization.
Presenter Biography
For the last decade, Andy Adler has been a member of the appellate division of the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. He has briefed and argued dozens of appeals in the Eleventh Circuit, including the en banc Court.
Over the past four years, he has also argued four cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. He was recently appointed by Chief Justice Roberts to serve on the Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.
Before joining the Federal Defender’s Office, he was an associate at Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Before private practice, he clerked for Judges Rosemary Barkett and Peter Fay, both of the Eleventh Circuit, as well as Kathleen Williams of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He also served as a staff attorney on the Eleventh Circuit.
He is a magma cum laude graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, and a graduate of Emory University.
CLE Applicable Event
VIRTUAL PROGRAM:
This is a virtual program. Defender Services Office Training Division, (DSOTD), generally seeks CLE accreditation for participants and faculty attending virtual programs. CLE for this program will be sought in all applicable jurisdictions. However, actual CLE approval is at the discretion of each bar association/organization. Notably, you must attend the entire virtual program to receive full CLE credit. To minimize reporting fees per attorney/program, if you are barred in more than one of the following states: NM, TN, PA, NE, attendance will be reported to one state only. Attorneys are responsible for making sure the appropriate state and bar number is on file with DSOTD. For states that require DSOTD to report attendance, attendance will be reported using the bar number(s) and state(s) listed on the registration form submitted for this virtual program. Failure to provide a state and bar number may result in DSOTD not being able to report your attendance. Within 30 days of the completion of this virtual program, DSOTD staff will send attendees a post program email with a CLE information sheet detailing the amount of CLE credit approved by each state, a uniform certificate of attendance and a program agenda. If you have further CLE questions about this program, please contact the DSOTD contact listed above. For general CLE questions, visit our CLE information center or email DSO_CLEAdmin@ao.uscourts.gov.
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