Chair’s Message
Member Spotlight
September 2023 Chair’s Message
Greetings Appellate Practice Section Members, In my initial Chair’s message, I issued a challenge to all of our members. I challenged everyone to: Bring a friend. Bring an opposing counsel. Bring an...
Message from the 2023-2024 APS Chair
Greetings Appellate Practice Section Members, Several past APS chairs had a theme for their year. Sorry friends, I do not. Instead, at the Annual Convention, I issued a challenge to all our...
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...
Congratulations to New Board-Certified Lawyers!
Congratulations to the five lawyers who recently earned Florida Bar board certification inAppellate Practice: Jessica Christy Connor, OrlandoJonathan P. Picard, West Palm BeachMichael A....
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...
CLE
Featured Article
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...
A Feelgood Conversation with a Quintessential Floridian: Judge Robert “Bobby” E. Long, Jr.
By Eleanor H. Sills A real-life Captain America. Judge Robert “Bobby” E. Long, Jr., is the quintessential North Florida judge. A...
A Chat with the Chief Justice
By David Costello* Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz and his clerks read thousands of legal briefs each year. But they still make time to read novels—call...
2023 in Review: Amendments to the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure
By Samantha Wuschke* As we begin 2024, appellate practitioners should be aware of the...
September 2023 Chair’s Message
Greetings Appellate Practice Section Members, In my initial Chair’s message, I issued a challenge to all of our members. I challenged everyone to:...
A Feelgood Conversation with a Quintessential Floridian: Judge Robert “Bobby” E. Long, Jr.
By Eleanor H. Sills A real-life Captain America. Judge Robert “Bobby” E. Long, Jr., is the quintessential North Florida judge. A...
Coffee Talk with Judge Adam Tanenbaum
By Eleanor H. Sills Perhaps unsurprising from someone who is a self-described iconoclast, Judge Adam Tanenbaum is refreshingly unexpected....
A Chat with the Chief Justice
By David Costello* Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz and his clerks read thousands of legal briefs each year. But they still make time to read novels—call...
Judge Suzanne Labrit
You won’t hear it from her, but Judge Labrit has always stood out from her peers. At the age of twelve, Judge Labrit left home to attend Golden...
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...
2023 in Review: Amendments to the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure
By Samantha Wuschke* As we begin 2024, appellate practitioners should be aware of the...
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...
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...
