Power Advocacy: Tips and Techniques

Appellate Advocacy Workshop—Power Advocacy:  Tips and Techniques

Free one-day appellate practice skills workshop

• Morning devoted to brief writing and afternoon to oral argument
• Focus on concrete techniques for improving advocacy
• Opportunities to practice new techniques and get feedback
• Option of bringing in a real brief for editing assistance
• Taught by experienced appellate attorneys (criminal and civil) and law school faculty

Register for the full day or just the morning or afternoon session. But please note that space is limited and, if we reach maximum capacity, priority will go to full-day registrants. And you'll want to attend for the full day anyway, since full-day registration comes with lunch and a lunch-hour ethics presentation.

The workshop will be submitted for approval for 7 CLE credits, including 1 ethics credit (for full-day participants who attend the ethics lunch).

Schedule

Morning Schedule—Brief Writing

9:00 a.m. Arrive (breakfast)
9:15 a.m. Welcome
9:40 a.m. Developing the Issues Presented and the theory and theme of the case
10:25 a.m. Drafting the Statement of the Case and Statement of the Facts
11:10 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Using headings, roadmap paragraphs, and thesis sentences to focus your argument
12:00 p.m. Drafting Petitions for Review

Lunch

12:30 p.m. Break
12:35 p.m. Lunch—Ethical issues in appellate advocacy
1:35 p.m. Break

Afternoon Schedule—Oral Advocacy

1:45 p.m. Focusing on a theme
2:30 p.m. Crafting an opening statement
3:15 p.m. Handling questions and pivoting/building momentum
4:00 p.m. Addressing counterarguments
4:30 p.m. End

Workshop Presenters

Margaret Baumgartner, University of Wisconsin Law School
Amelia Bizarro, Bizzaro Law LLC
Rebecca Blemberg, Marquette Law School
Joseph Bugni, Federal Defender Services, Inc.
Sarah Burgundy, Wisconsin Department of Justice Criminal Appeals Unit
Brian Fahl, Fahl Law Office, LLC
Shelley Fite, Wisconsin State Public Defender, Appellate Division
William Gansner, Wisconsin Department of Justice Criminal Appeals Unit
Melissa Greipp, Marquette Law School
Beth Hanan, Gass, Weber, Mullins LLC
Ellen Henak, Henak Law Office, s.c.
Rob Henak, Henak Law Office, s.c.
Anne Kearney, Appellate Consulting Group
Lisa Mazzie, Marquette Law School
Timothy Pierce, State Bar of Wisconsin
Julie Rich, Wisconsin Supreme Court Commissioners Office
Andrew Turner, University of Wisconsin Law School
Ursula Weigold, University of Wisconsin Law School
Jake Wittwer, Wisconsin Department of Justice Criminal Appeals Unit

Directions & Parking

• Campus map
• Directions & Parking

Questions? Contact Melissa Greipp at melissa.greipp@marquette.edu or 414.288.6996.