2022 APPELLATE ADVOCACY SEMINAR – MATERIALS and PRESENTER BIOS
Sponsored by the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit, Mississippi College School and Law and University of Mississippi Law Center Program Chair – Allison Jones
10 hours of CLE including one Professionalism and one Ethics – Louisiana and Mississippi
9 hours of CLE including one Ethics – Texas
Monday, October 3
Writing Workshop
9:30 – 11:30 Writing Workshop- “Trailers, Transitions, and Tracking: How Screenwriting Techniques Can Enhance Lawyers’ Storytelling”
Mary Largent Purvis, Mississippi College School of Law, Director of Legal Analysis and Communication
Chandra Lee, Mississippi College School of Law, Legal Analysis and Communication Instructor
Heather Hall, Mississippi College School of Law, Legal Analysis and Communication Instructor
LUNCH
1:00 – 2:00 The Clerk’s Office –
Lyle Cayce, Clerk of Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
2:00 – 3:00 Legal Writing: A Judge’s Perspective on the Science and Rhetoric of the Written Word
Hon. Robert Bacharach, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Oklahoma City, OK
Moderator: Marcy Greer, Alexander Dubose Jefferson and Townsend, Austin, TX
3:15 – 4:15 pm – Professionalism – “How Implicit Biases Erode Ethical Judgment.”
Kate Margolis,Bradley, Jackson, MS
Tuesday, October 5
8:00 – 11:00 Observe Oral Arguments – John Minor Wisdom Building – Statement of Issues
9:30 – 11:30 Supreme Court Panel – Current Issues Before the Court
Tim Crooks, Attorney at Law, Houston, TX
Daniel Geyser, Dallas, TX
Jeffery T. Green, Sidley Austin, Washington, DC
Aaron Streett, Baker Botts, Houston, TX
11:00 – 12:30 LUNCH IN THE GREAT HALL
1:00 – 2:00 Current Issues in Criminal Law – What’s Hot and What’s Not
Hon. Brian A. Jackson, U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana
Hon. Richard B. Farrer, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Texas
Cynthia Orr – Goldstein, Goldstein & Orr, San Antonio, TX
Moderator – Samantha Kuhn, Office of Federal Public Defender, New Orleans, LA
or
1:00 – 2:00 Current Issues in Civil Law
Moderator – Allison Jones, Downer, Jones Marino & Wilhite, Shreveport, LA
Martin Stern, Adams and Reese, LLP, New Orleans, LA
Michael Bentley, Bradley, Jackson, MS
2:00 – 3:00 A Glimpse Behind the Curtain : Judges discuss the inner workings of how an appeal gets processed – from oral argument to mandate. Q&A session with Judges. No materials available.
Hon. Stephen A. Higginson, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Hon. James C. Ho, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Hon. Cory T. Wilson, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Moderator: Allison Jones, Downer, Jones, Marino & Wilhite, Shreveport, LA
3:15 – 4:15 – Ethics – “Regulatory Reform in the Delivery of Legal Services.”
Ben Cooper, Senior Associate Dean, University of Mississippi School of Law