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Sort by:  | The Appeal: How Long Will This Take?
Taylor C. Young; Mandel Young plc, Appellate Lawyers;
Legal Alert/Article April 19, 2013, previously published by Attorney at Law Magazine (Greater Phoenix Edition) (Target Market Media Publications, Inc.) on April 2013 Aside from "How much will this cost?" the most consistent question our firm is asked by prospective appellate clients is "How long will this take?" Of course, the answer is "It depends." For direct appeals in civil matters ..., we tell clients to expect to wait at...
| | Amended ARCAP 7(a)(2) Affords Civil Litigants Greater Access to the Arizona Court of Appeals
Robert A. Mandel; Mandel Young plc, Appellate Lawyers;
Legal Alert/Article March 20, 2013, previously published by Attorney at Law Magazine (Greater Phoenix Edition) (Target Market Media Publications, Inc. 2013) Deciding whether to appeal a money judgment—indeed any judgment—can be an intensive intellectual exercise, to be sure. But there are important pragmatic considerations as well. Among them is whether the appellant has the financial wherewithal to “bond the judgment” and thus...
| | Written and Oral Advocacy on Appeal: A View From My Room
Taylor C. Young; Mandel Young plc, Appellate Lawyers;
Legal Alert/Article March 20, 2013, previously published by Attorney at Law Magazine (Greater Phoenix Edition) (Target Market Media Publications, Inc. 2013) Like Didion and Zinsser, my clearest thinking comes in the act of writing. Often, a winning argument will only reveal itself after the toil and scrutiny of writing causes me to discard conspicuous, but less deserving arguments that are obscuring my view. By constantly asking myself, what am I...
| | New Year's Resolution: Clean Briefs
Taylor C. Young; Mandel Young plc, Appellate Lawyers;
Legal Alert/Article January 21, 2013, previously published by Attorney at Law Magazine, Greater Phoenix Edition (Target Market Media 2013) Nearly 25 years ago, Mr. Christopher Lutz, the noted Washington D.C. attorney and author, observed that “[l]awyers write badly.” “Probably no group has been more relentlessly hounded by calls for better writing[,]” Lutz noted. Not much has changed in the intervening years,...
| | Beware the Law of the Case
Robert A. Mandel; Mandel Young plc, Appellate Lawyers;
Legal Alert/Article December 21, 2012, previously published by ATTORNEY AT LAW MAGAZINE, Greater Phoenix Edition (Target Market Media 2012) "[T]he law of the case doctrine does not deprive a judge of the power to change his or her own non-final rulings prior to entry of final judgment simply because the question was ruled on at an earlier stage. A trial judge retains the authority to change a ruling prior to entry of the first...
| | The Final Judgment Rule: A Ticking Bomb on Appeal
Mandel Young plc Appellate Lawyers;
Legal Alert/Article December 3, 2012, previously published by ATTORNEY AT LAW MAGAZINE, Greater Phoenix Edition (Target Market Media Nov. 2012) The final judgment rule, which embodies the principle that appellate jurisdiction is appropriately invoked only by a timely-filed notice of appeal from a final judgment, is a ticking bomb for unwary Arizona lawyers. Central to the problem is determining what constitutes a final judgment. Noticing...
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