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From the program: Appellate Advocacy 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 21, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Appellate Advocacy 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [00:58:28] Effective and Persuasive Brief Writing  [00:58:28] Practical suggestions for brief-writing: Question presented, introduction, statement of case , statement of facts, summary of argument and argument The “Golden Rules” of written argument The purchase price of this segment includes the following ...

Recorded on: Mar. 21, 2013

JANET SIEGEL: It is now my pleasure to introduce to you the chair of this afternoon's program. David Gossett serves as the assistant general counsel for litigation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he leads the group of lawyers who defend the Bureau in litigation, as well as handling all appellate and amicus litigation for the bureau. Previously, he was a partner in the Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice at Mayer Brown. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 26, 2012

DAVID M. GOSSETT: But for now, I'm going to start by introducing Scott Chesin, who is sitting to my immediate right. Scott is a partner at Mayer Brown, a former colleague of mine before I moved into the government last year. [? And he's ?] a part in the appellate practice there. He's based here in New York, though his practice is national. He clerked for Judge Leval in the Second Circuit and has argued appellate cases in various courts, including ...

Recorded on: Mar. 21, 2013

DAVID GOSSETT: As I said at the beginning of this afternoon, brief writing is one of the most important parts of oral argument-- of appellate advocacy. Oral argument is clearly the other most important part of oral advocacy. And you are in for a real treat now to have Roy Englert and Kevin Newsom here to discuss oral advocacy with us. Roy is one of the founding partners of Robbins Russell Englert Orseck Untereiner & Sauber in DC, which is a small ...