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30 Summer 2015 The Mississippi Lawyer HED Continued development of rule for pro bono appellate counsel highlights Appellate Practice Sections third year way of raising the level of appellate prac- tice in their courts. Toward that end the section has sponsored several appeals-focused CLEs which have included workshops on writing oral advocacy and guidance from members of Mississippis two appellate courts. Valuable though those seminars have been for seasoned appellate practition- ers they also have been designed to introduce lawyers seldom dabbling in appellate work to the ways that appeals differ greatly from trial-level litigation. Sometimes really good trial lawyers or subject-area lawyers assume that they should handle the appeal because they are really good at what they do Bentley said. But appeals are dif- ferent and their skills that win trial and arbitrations or position their clients for good settlements do not always translate to a skillfully-presented appeal. In addition to McCarty and Bentley the Appellate Practice Sections seven- member Executive Committee is made up of Vice Chair Margaret Cupples of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Secretary Todd Butler of Phelps Dunbar LLP and members-at-large Amy Champagne of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell Berkowitz PC Will Bardwell of McCraney Montagnet Quin Noble PLLC and Meta Copeland of the Mississippi College School of Law. The committees diversity under- scores what McCarty describes as a broad slice of the Bar that supported the sections creation. He recalls Early on there was great support from experi- enced practitioners like John Henegan who became our first chairperson Luther Munford David Voisin Margaret Cupples Oliver Diaz and Wayne Drinkwater. A lot of lawyers who had an identifiable appellate practice saw that there was a need to form the Appellate Practice Section. McCarty and the other members of the Executive Committee encourage those who already practice in this area or who are interest- ed in learning more about it to join the Section and participate in its upcoming continuing education offerings. I