Chair’s Message
Member Spotlight
January 2022
Happy Holidays, Appellate Practice Section Members! How is everyone doing as 2021 comes to a close? It has been a beautiful December in Florida - the type of weather where you can open your windows...
December 2021
Happy Holidays, Appellate Practice Section Members, It feels like just a moment ago we were celebrating Fall cocktails with President Tanner and working through a productive virtual Fall meeting....
October 2021
Hello, Appellate Practice Section Members! In just a week, we will be gathering for our Fall Meeting. We will shake off summer with a lovely Fall Forward Virtual Cocktail Class, led by Special...
APS Pro Bono Spotlight: Melissa A. Giasi
How did you first get involved doing pro bono work? I have done minor pro bono projects over the years. However, in 2017, I was contacted by a high school classmate who needed help with an...
APS Pro Bono Spotlight
PRO BONO ATTORNEYSARAH LAHLOU-AMINE How did you first get involved doing pro bono work? I give a lot of credit to my alma mater, Stetson University College of Law, for getting me involved in pro...
Member Spotlight: Samuel Walker
Section Member Samuel Walker was recently recognized by the Section for his exciting YouTube series featuring regular case updates from the Florida Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal. The...
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Judicial Profile
2020 Appellate Board Certified Attorneys
The Appellate Board Certification Committee is pleased to announce that the following attorneys have earned board certification: Kimberly Berman, Ft. LauderdaleEric Levine, West Palm BeachJohn...
AJEI / ECAPI 2018 Summit
Save the date! AJEI / ECAPI 2018 Summit | Nov. 8-11, 2018 Marriott Marquis, Downtown Atlanta The Appellate Practice Section is proud to support the Eleventh Circuit Appellate Practice Institute...
Join the Section for the 2018-2019 Monthly Audio Webcast Season
Last year, the Section moved into the technological age and revamped the monthly CLEs. It moved from a telephonic to a webinar format. This change was a huge success. It allowed the speakers to use...
On the Florida Supreme Court’s Amendment to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.130
Katryna Santa Cruz Prior to January 6, 2022, trial court orders granting or denying leave to amend a complaint to assert a claim for punitive...
Remembering Justice Grimes
By Julia Kapusta As we say goodbye to 2021 and hello to 2022, it is important to take the time to remember those that we lost this past year. ...
Lesser-Known Patron Saints of Lawyers: St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. John of Capistrano
By Wendy S. Loquasto On a recent trip to Santa Barbara, California, I saw paintings of Saint Catherine of Alexandria at the Getty Center, and I...
St. Thomas More – Patron Saint of Lawyers, Statesmen & Politicians
By Wendy S. Loquasto, Fox & Loquasto, LLC On May 19, 1935, four centuries after Thomas More was beheaded for refusing to take the oath...
Remembering Justice Grimes
By Julia Kapusta As we say goodbye to 2021 and hello to 2022, it is important to take the time to remember those that we lost this past year. ...
Justice John D. Couriel
By: Julia Kapusta At the age of eleven, Justice John D. Couriel, a self-proclaimed aviation nerd, traveled from London to New York on the Concorde,...
An Interview with Justice Robert J. Luck
In January of this year, Governor Ron DeSantis appointed the Honorable Robert J. Luck to be the 88th justice of the Florida Supreme Court, filling one of three vacancies left at the end of 2018 by the retirements of Justices Barbara Pariente, Fred Lewis, and Peggy Quince.
Tenth Circuit Judge Andrea Teves Smith Joins the Second DCA
Q: So you always knew you wanted to be an attorney?
A: Oh yes. When I was nine I drafted an affidavit on behalf of my sister after she was pushed off a bike.
Civil Appeals
Rules of Procedure
Criminal Appeals
Retroactive Application of Law to Cases Pending on Appeal
Occasionally, while an appeal is pending, the law changes in a way that could affect the outcome of the case. Therefore, appellate attorneys should...
Constitution Revision Commission Update
April 9, 2018 by Courtney Brewer And then there were twelve . . . or is it twenty-four? After a series of public hearings and meetings over the...
Appellate Practice Section Members Donate More Than 1,000 Hours of Pro Bono Time to the Guardian ad Litem Office
“It’s going like gangbusters.”
Constitution Revision Commission Update
February 16, 2018 The CRC wrapped up committee meetings in early February and is now traveling the state holding public hearings. To find out if...
On the Florida Supreme Court’s Amendment to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.130
Katryna Santa Cruz Prior to January 6, 2022, trial court orders granting or denying leave to amend a complaint to assert a claim for punitive...
A Primer on the Law of the Case Doctrine in the Eleventh Circuit
by Paul Avron The law of the case doctrine is not applied on a daily basis, but it is a viable tool for litigants who obtain favorable...
Appellate CPR: Resuscitating Your Family Law Case on Appeal Without a Transcript
Winter 2017, Volume XX, No. 7 By Michael M. Giel You’re holding a final judgment peppered with errors. Maybe the court awarded certain relief...
The Effect of Bankruptcy Stay on a Subsequently Filed Appeal
Winter 2017, Volume XX, No. 7 By: Heather M. Kolinsky The Second District Court of Appeal recently reiterated that an automatic stay in bankruptcy,...
Retroactive Application of Law to Cases Pending on Appeal
Occasionally, while an appeal is pending, the law changes in a way that could affect the outcome of the case. Therefore, appellate attorneys should...
Constitution Revision Commission Update
April 9, 2018 by Courtney Brewer And then there were twelve . . . or is it twenty-four? After a series of public hearings and meetings over the...
Constitution Revision Commission Update
February 16, 2018 The CRC wrapped up committee meetings in early February and is now traveling the state holding public hearings. To find out if...
Constitution Revision Commission Update – February 2, 2018
February 2, 2018 After a couple of full weeks of committee meetings, the Legislative Committee has some updates to report on the CRC, one of which...
