NYS Bar Association offers moot court for court of appeals practitioners
Attorneys always doubt the efficacy of oral argument at the Court of Appeals while judges insist that they can be useful. Now attorneys will at least have the opportunity to put their best foot forward thanks to the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA).
The Bar Association’s Court of Appellate Jurisdiction committee is now offering attorneys scheduled to argue at the state’s highest court a chance to practice their oral argument in moot court.
“Not every case merits a moot,” Ed Markarian, a partner at Magavern Magavern Grimm LLP and committee member, wrote in Leaveworthy, the NYSBA’s committees’ newsletter. “But how many times will we make it to the Court of Appeals? Maybe never again. We scrub our briefs. Why not do the same for oral argument?
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