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 • 204 episodes
The California Appellate Law Podcast
Latest Episodes
The End of Hallucinated Cases: Ross Guberman's RealityCheck Arrives
Legal writing authority Ross Guberman has been busy absorbing AI tools into his popular BriefCatch and now-related suite of writing tools. Ross returns to discuss how BriefCatch cousin app RealityCheck uses a traditional authority base plus AI ...
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April Fool's Legal Myths: From "One Phone Call" to Dual-Citizenship
The law is riddled with things "everybody knows" that aren't actually true. In this April Fool's-themed episode, Tim Kowal and Jeff Lewis discuss several legal myths, half-truths, and courtroom fictions—from rules of evidence to constitutional ...
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From BigLaw to Boutiques: David Lat on Trump, VanDyke, and the Art of Oral Argument
David Lat—founder of Above the Law and author and host of Original Jurisdiction blog and podcast—explains what these stories reveal about a legal profession navigating ideological warfare, economic disruption, and the enduring craft of persuasi...
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The Myth of the Rule of Law in Nude Female Korean Spas
Two explosive First Amendment cases from the Ninth Circuit show how culture-war flashpoints are reshaping speech doctrine and judicial decorum. In B.B. v. Capistrano Unified, the court held that elementary students have enf...
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CA Trans Law Stay in SCOTUS, and AI Sanctions in SCOCA
Justice Kagan has more words about the emergency docket, aka shadow docket. This one is about the 9th Circuit panel injunction of California’s law requiring school officials not to share with parents when their children present as trans. The Su...
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