Judicial Opinions and Appellate Advocacy in Federal Courts - One Judge's Views

Authors

Richard A. Posner

Abstract

I have been a federal court of appeals judge for thirty years, and naturally over this long span of time I have formed judgments about how federal court of appeals judges should go about deciding cases, what their judicial opinions should be like (which raises the issue of how judges should use staff, consisting mainly of law clerks), and how lawyers should brief and argue cases in these courts. My purpose in this article is to distill my beliefs concerning opinions and advocacy into practical advice for federal court of appeals judges, their law clerks, and the lawyers who practice before these courts.

First Page

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Recommended Citation

Richard A. Posner, Judicial Opinions and Appellate Advocacy in Federal Courts - One Judge's Views, 51 Duq. L. Rev. 3 (2012).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol51/iss1/4