Virtual Training Event Description
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 Biography
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.
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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