Seminars and Programs

Federal Appellate Practice in the Eleventh Circuit
This seminar, held on April 18, 2002, was designed to provide State Bar members with an in-depth look at appellate practice before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. C. Andrew Head, Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta and Myles E. Eastwood, Law Offices of Myles E. Eastwood, Atlanta, presided as the two program Co-Chairs. The topics discussed were jurisdictional considerations, internal operating procedures, the Court's standard and scope of review, preservation and protection of the record on appeal, brief writing, mediation practices; and a judge's view from the bench. Speakers included the Honorable Stanley F. Birch, Jr., Thomas Kahn, and Paden Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals; C. Andrew Head and Laurie Webb Daniel of Holland & Knight LLP; Myles E. Eastwood, Law Offices of Myles E. Eastwood; Patrick O'Conner of Oliver Maner & Gray; Teresa Roseborough of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan; and Caleb Davies, IV.

Appellate Practice in the Georgia Appellate Courts
This seminar, held on March 8, 2002, was designed to be informative to the seasoned appellate lawyer as well as the lawyer who has never done an appeal before. The topics addressed were preservation of issues for appeal; preparing and drafting a brief; appellate jurisdiction; the workings of Georgia's appellate courts, from docketing to decision; news from the clerks; and effective oral argument. Speakers included Chief Judge G. Alan Blackburn and Judges Charles B. Mikell, Jr., M. Yvette Miller, and J.D. Smith of the Georgia Court of Appeals; Justices Robert Benham, George H. Carley and P. Harris Hines of the Georgia Supreme Court; Lynn Stinchcomb, Chief Deputy Clerk for the Georgia Supreme Court; William L. Martin III, Clerk for the Georgia Court of Appeals; Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General for the State of Georgia; Joseph Drolet, Solicitor General, City Court of Atlanta; Professor Timothy Terrell, Emory School of Law; and James Grant, Alston & Bird.

Appellate Strategies
This seminar, held on April 12, 2001, included many of the Section's leaders and focused on some of the practical aspects of appellate advocacy that have not been addressed in recent appellate seminars, such as the role of the appellate lawyer in the trial court; use of amicus curiae briefs; tips on emergency motions at the appellate level; appellate mediation; and guidelines for dealing with the PR issues when a high profile case is on appeal. Judge Ed Johnson from the Georgia Court of Appeals and Judges Frank Hull and Stan Birch provided valuable views from the bench on many of these topics.

Appeals and Technology
This seminar was a morning workshop held at the Georgia Supreme Court on March 15, 2001. Sherie Welch, Clerk of the Supreme Court, and Ward Mundy of the Eleventh Circuit spoke of the use of technology in these courts.