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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.
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Average audio length:
41 minutes
Guest interviews
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English
United States
223 episodes
since July 1, 2020
episodic
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If someone is going to make #AppellateTikTok a thing, it’s John Stobart. John is a certified appellate specialist who shares practical guidance on responsible AI use for lawyers through short videos on TikTok and at stobart.ai. John walks Tim and Jeff through how he actually uses Claude in an appel…
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Law students won a Ninth Circuit appeal on a broader theory than they argued. Now it’s en banc, and they have to defend the result, not the reasoning, in front of the judge who wrote the opinion.
The case is King v. Villegas, and the students are from the Pepperdine Ninth Circuit Advocacy Clinic, c…
Tim Kowal and Jeff Lewis discuss Family Violence Appellate Project v. Superior Court, the California Supreme Court's unanimous August 2026 decision holding that an indigent litigant unable to find or afford a court reporter is entitled to an electronic recording, and that the trial court has a…
Ben Feuer, chair of Complex Appellate Litigation Group, joins Tim and Jeff to discuss how CALG built a successful appellate firm by rejecting the traditional law firm pyramid entirely.
CALG hires no associates and pays attorneys a percentage of billings rather than a fixed salary. The result is a f…
Retired Associate Justice Thomas L. Willhite Jr. of the California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Four, joins Tim Kowal and Jeff Lewis to discuss nearly four decades in the legal system, from coordinating capital appeals at the California Attorney General's office to authoring roug…
John Mitch Mitchell joins Tim Kowal to unpack Maniago v. Desert Cardiology Consultants’ Medical Group, a July 2026 California Supreme Court decision that shuts down a procedural shortcut California litigators have been relying on for years. Mitchell, who represented the plaintiffs on appeal, offers…
Why do tenants' rights cases end up on appeal—and what happens when the Ellis Act gets weaponized? Tenants' rights appellate attorney Fran Campbell joins Jeff Lewis as a guest host while Tim Kowal is on vacation, sharing hard-won insight from landlord-tenant litigation, mobile home park l…
One California city has been quietly collecting $5,000-per-incident fines from short-term vacation rental owners. And if the regime is struck down, the city may owe half a million dollars back.
Former constitutional law attorney David Koslow joins Tim Kowal and Jeff Lewis to break down two Appellat…
Why do writ petitions so often fail? Judge Tom Fay covers the technical writ rules that attorneys often overlook. In part 2 of our conversation with former lead writs attorney at the Santa Ana Court of Appeal, Judge Fay covers the CRC 8.486 and local rule requirements for your writ petition, the av…
Tom Fay spent years as the lead civil writs attorney for California's 4th District, Division 3, processing every emergency petition that crossed the court's threshold. Effective June 29, 2026, he's now Judge Tom Fay of the Orange County Superior Court. We caught Judge Fay between app…
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