
#003: Raffi Melkonian - Texas Appellate Litigator and #AppellateTwitter Dean
How I Lawyer Podcast with Jonah Perlin
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Moot Court Practice
The rest of my practice it's what you would imagine from moot court I think it's preparing briefs arguing cases in various courts of appeals doing motion practice in appellate court. Something Texas specific but also maybe fifth circuit specific is that our courts of state courts of last resort in Texas are very open to a certification and that's true of Mississippi as well but less true of Louisiana. So there's a lot of like people will try to move to certify a case in the middle of briefing in the fifth circuit so they'll say like well you know we're briefing the case to you but also why don't you just send this to the Texas Supreme Court. Usually it's because they think they have some
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