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1) Judge Sullivan's hiring of private counsel to represent him in the DC Circuit's proceedings on @SidneyPowell1 's writ of mandamus has made a rare, unusual situation even more rare

Attended an excellent CLE today, taught by Judge Bacharach. Judge Bacharach is the author of “Legal Writing: A Judge's Perspective on the Science and Rhetoric of the Written Word.” Here

1) Various commentators have suggested that the DC Circuit cannot, at this point, grant @SidneyPowell1's writ petition, because Judge Sullivan has not actually denied the DOJ's motion to dismiss. #appellatetwitter

Raffi Melkonian

A little primer on "networking" from an introvert. Before #AppellateTwitter and so on, I would go to the big Texas appellate shin digs and execute my "stand next to the

1) The wording of the DC Circuit's order directing Judge Sullivan to personally respond to @SidneyPowell1's writ shows it is deeply troubled by Judge Sullivan's actions. #appellatetwitter 2) The Federal

Okay #AppellateTwitter, if the Navy really did follow through on this horrible idea to name a class of ships after a *checks notes* “constitutional concepts” what names would you recommend?USS

THREAD. In the wake of her recent hospitalization, let's remember how strong Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, truly is.#SCOTUS #appellatetwitter #NotoriousRBG #RuthBaderGinsburg #JusticeGinsburg Justice Ginsburg has defeated cancer at l

The New York bar exam, previously rescheduled to September from July because of #COVID19, has been canceled, by order of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.https://bit.ly/3h6d175

Raffi Melkonian

Having watched the first Zoom SCOTX argument, I think @blakeahawthorne way of having organized it is very good, and this is an entirely viable way of running oral arguments for

As a 1L, you just read every case. In full. Once when assigned then again studying for finals. Along with online summaries. 2L and 3L you read only summaries.https://twitter.com/nancyleong/status/1263593293440364546 But,

Re: ClerkshipsFor #lawstudents out there, I’ve been truly fortunate to mentor 10+ law students over the last year looking for clerkships. Most reached out because of the article written below.

Sarah Harrington

2020 is super hard, no question. And no end in sight. We are getting through it any way we can—this week and who knows what will get us thru next

Supreme Court Places

Want to hear a story about the growth of a new parenthetical in legal writing . . . that's 𝙣𝙤𝙩 about (cleaned up)? Then read on to learn about (capitalization

Stephen Hardwick

Starting in less than 20 minutes, @OHSupremeCourt’s first video-conferences oral arguments.#AppellateTwitter http://ohiochannel.org/live/supreme-court-of-ohio Classy. The chief stated out by thanking a lot of staff by name. First lawyer to get to

1/ THREAD:Can we talk about the total lack of consistency at the Supreme Court in how quickly they are deciding high profile and time-sensitive cases during this COVID-19 pandemic?#appellatetwitter #SCOTUS

For Thanksgiving-an #AppellateTwitter tale involving my grandfather. Virtually all of us have some professional disappointments. Before my grandfather became Justice Gul, he had a big one. My great grandfather was