Taking Your Appellate Advocacy in the PA Courts to the Next Level

Every appeal benefits from skilled brief writing and argument.

Join a panel of appellate judges and experienced appellate lawyers as they walk you through the process of appealing a case to a higher court. They’ll also identify potential minefields that you may encounter and provide guidance for side-stepping an explosion. 

The View from the Well of the Court — Experienced Litigators and Corporate Counsel Help You Get Started: 

• Differing perspectives: trial lawyer vs. appellate lawyer 
• Preservation of issues, early involvement of appellate viewpoint 
• Preparing the record 
• Briefing a commercial case on appeal 

Special Feature: Judges from Pennsylvania’s Appellate Courts Share Their Preferences, Procedures, Pet Peeves 

Best practices tips for appealing to one of the higher courts: 

• Commonwealth Court 
• Superior Court 
• Supreme Court 

The View from the Pa Appellate Courts

• Workload of the Court & how this impacts complex commercial cases 
• The time between acceptance and final decision 
• Commercial vs. criminal vs. personal injury vs. domestic vs. estates and other cases  
• How to most effectively present a commercial appeal 
• Specialization among jurists – criminal/ personal injury/domestic/ estates/ commercial 
• Pennsylvania’s place in business law—the Bench’s versus practitioners’ perspectives 

Two convenient attendance options

• In-person in Mechanicsburg for in-person time with the judges and attorneys on the panel.
• Virtually via webcast for ease of attending anywhere.

All attendees will receive the course book as a digital download.

Recorded in June 2023.