Remember, in legal writing, the Rule is King. That means that apart from citing the rule that governs the case in your argument — and analyzing the facts of your case through its lens — you should also structure your…
In appellate law, the standard of review is not a formality. It is the single most consequential choice in framing an issue for the Utah Court of Appeals or Utah Supreme Court. Get it wrong and you are fighting uphill…
When I first began practicing law, I found myself in the Attorney General’s office for the State of Utah, in the criminal appeals division. Fred Voros was legendary there. He had served as division chief for many years before taking…
There is a briefing mistake that forfeits appeals silently — one that does not announce itself in the oral argument or the reply brief, but shows up in the Utah Court of Appeals’ opinion in a single quiet sentence: “Because…
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