Monthly Telephonic CLE
September 21, 2010 at 12:10 p.m.

Topic TBA

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Appellate Practice Section Next Meeting
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Hilton Orlando

To be held in conjunction with
the Florida Bar Midyear Meeting

Highlights include:
Committee Meetings
Executive Council Meeting

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Third DCA Procedure for
Motions for Enlargement of Time

The Third DCA has posted an important notice on its website regarding motions for extension of time.

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Florida Supreme Court Issues Interim Policy on Electronic Appellate Court Records

On July 29, 2010, the Florida Supreme Court issue an
administrative order, which is a first step toward
appellate e-filing statewide.

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Justice Raoul G. Cantero

What I Learned From My Fiction Writing Professor, Part I

All I know about legal writing I learned from my fiction writing professor. Well, maybe not all of it; only everything that matters. Years after law school—after I learned to start a statement of the issues with "whether" and to include a short conclusion at the beginning of law firm memos—I realized that most of the essential legal writing skills—the ones that matter to the judges who actually read our work product—were skills about writing. Legal writing is just the genre. Yet when law schools teach it, they assume (often falsely) that students already know how to write well; and they should focus only on how to write in the legal context. That's like teaching people to drive an eighteen-wheeler before they learn to drive a car.

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