The attached Findlaw blog rates US Supreme Court Justices’ hipster quotients:
Any thoughts on how our own Supreme Judicial Court Justices rank?
As you can see, we have a new format/platform. Let’s hope it’s easier to use that the last one. As always, all comments welcome, cconnors@pierceatwood.com. Now let’s finish discussing the SJC’s appellate seminar.
We had just finished up with Justices Alexander and Humphrey on jurisdictional issues. Next, Justice Mead spoke about Rules 5-7 on the brief and appendix structure. After observing that the people attending probably weren’t the offenders, Justice Mead stated that sometimes it appears that attorneys hand off appeals to a junior associate or secretary, who in turn calls the clerk’s office for questions answered in the rules. If you are the supervising attorney, he said, then supervise. You should know the rules, and the buck stops with you.
Regarding Rule 9(a) and the standard of review, Justice Mead said this is not the portion of the brief to exercise your advocacy skills. Just set out the standard.
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