The California Appellate Law Podcast
An appellate law podcast for trial lawyers. Appellate specialists Jeff Lewis and Tim Kowal discuss timely trial tips and the latest cases and news coming from the California Court of Appeal and California Supreme Court.
Podcasting since 2020 • 153 episodes
The California Appellate Law Podcast
Latest Episodes
How the Cal. Appellate Project Promotes Appellate Experience and Access to Justice
There is a 700-appellate case backlog in Los Angeles and only around 450 attorneys on the California Appellate Project—Los Angeles panel. CAP-LA attorneys Jennifer Hansen and Jennifer Peabody share how the rest of us can pitch in to assuage thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 153
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39:51
CALP w/ Chris Dralla, Creator of Typelaw, Revolutionizing Legal Writing
Attorneys still wrestling with Microsoft Word to finish a brief need to be acquainted with Chris Dralla’s product Typelaw, the groundbreaking tool that lets attorneys turn plain text into fully formatted, cited, hyperlinked, local rule-complian...
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Season 1
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Episode 152
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40:01
Reaction to Judge Jones and Prof. Vladeck's Exchange on Judge Shopping
In this episode, Tim and Jeff dive into the recent heated exchange between Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones and Georgetown Professor Stephen Vladeck at the Federalist Society’s Lawyers National Lawyers Conference. The debate centered on the tens...
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Season 1
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Episode 151
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16:34
Why the Lack of an Record Is a Constitutional Problem, with Erin Smith (Part 2)
Responding to a decades-long lack of court reporters, the Los Angeles Superior Court in September 2024 ordered that electronic recordings may be made. This arguably violates a statute prohibiting the use of electronic recordings. But Erin Smith...
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Season 1
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Episode 150
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41:20
Why the Lack of an Record Is a Constitutional Problem, with Erin Smith (Part 1)
Erin Smith’s Family Violence Appellate Project has over 50 published cases under its belt—which is even more impressive considering how difficult it is to get a good record in these cases. In this first part of our conversation, we discuss the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 149
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30:52