Total Credits: 1 including 1 State Bar of California
Tags: Legal issues
This webinar will describe the value of appeals while spelling out the steps litigators must take in order to preserve appeal as an option. It will describe the critical importance of making a record for appeal, spelling out the procedural requirements, some strategies for how to meet them, and how to identify in advance the types of issues which may be worthy for appeal. It will also help attendees understand the need for courageous advocacy in the face of occasional judicial resistance to lawyers’ efforts to ensure the record for appeal is adequately developed. It will provide examples of appeal-worthy cases and will also invite discussion of attendees’ experiences and questions.
Joan Meier, Esq. is the founding director of the National Family Violence Law Center and the NFVLC Professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law School. She has been teaching, litigating, researching and educating professionals nationally and internationally for over 30 years. While directing the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP) from 2003-2019, she litigated numerous appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court and state appeals courts. Her team’s 2019 federally-funded empirical study is the first-ever national study quantifying family court responses to abuse and alienation claims.
