Raffi Melkonian @RMFifthCircuit
Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter (banner from Art Lien) wrightclose.com/attorneys/raff… Houston, TX Joined January 2012-
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A common problem in moots is getting questions that are too deep in the doctrinal weeds. Those aren't bad questions, but a moot where you only get those questions is as incomplete as a moot where you get none of them. Unprepared "judges" can bring things down to earth.🧵
A common problem in moots is getting questions that are too deep in the doctrinal weeds. Those aren't bad questions, but a moot where you only get those questions is as incomplete as a moot where you get none of them. Unprepared "judges" can bring things down to earth.🧵
Someone was complaining to me recently about a bad moot they experienced. I've never really thought about that issue before. If your mooters are unprepared, or don't get it, how can you still make that moot productive? #AppellateTwitter.
The Third Circuit Bar Association gives out really top-flight pens to counsel that argue in that Court. Not just pretty, but also write really nicely.
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7th Circuit took over 4 years to resolve a petition for rehearing. What's going on?
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Law Twitter: Did you go to law school knowing that you wanted to have the career you got upon graduation? When did you have the "ah ha" moment when you decided you're best suited as a transactional lawyer or a litigator (or tax lawyer, regulatory lawyer, etc.)?
@RMFifthCircuit It's a rather short opinion. A $1.6 billion reversal over 13 pages works out to about $120 million per page. Maybe that's a record?
My uncle Lewis got arrested at Columbia in 1968 and expelled … later he ended up being a Columbia professor.
Interesting new opinion on Del. law that discusses a recent article of mine (located here: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archive/…). Thanks to @ProfRobAnderson for flagging.
was waiting for this opinion re: whether directors owe duties to "diversified" shareholders. awesome opening, correct as to doctrine, but there's a lot of tension in the doctrine courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Downl…
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It took me 10 years post to get to the right side of the “v.”
Law Twitter: Did you go to law school knowing that you wanted to have the career you got upon graduation? When did you have the "ah ha" moment when you decided you're best suited as a transactional lawyer or a litigator (or tax lawyer, regulatory lawyer, etc.)?
@RMFifthCircuit Imagine the conflicts checks. (Or imagine accidentally hitting reply all to a firmwide email)
@1dgrn @RMFifthCircuit Honestly, I’m glad I retire soon. I’ll do my best to leave things in the right place for the next person, but better them than me.
@ObiWine_Kenobi @RMFifthCircuit That’s absolutely right - how do those firms differentiate themselves?
@RMFifthCircuit Actually, more mid-tier than mid-sized. The niche between “I don’t care what it costs, get those guys” and “lowest qualified bidder.”
@RMFifthCircuit I’m seriously not sure what the future for the midsize firm looks like. Seems tough.
@RMFifthCircuit @MattMarcotte Poor Mr. Hartson, lost to history.
@strowhiro @UTLawCLE If you’re going to watch I will actually have to prepare. Thanks a LOT.
My 7YO plays a bedtime game called "cozy fight" where one of the adults is the client and lies on the bed and he puts blankets over you and pillows under your head and long story short I may have taken a brief nap.
@obarcala @RMFifthCircuit The court thinks that contract interpretation (where both sides claim the outcome is unambiguous, the DCT agrees with one side and the CT5 agrees with the other) is a legal question subject to de novo review. This seems like a vice of textualism as applied?
@obarcala @RMFifthCircuit This is an interesting way to do New York textualism.
@RMFifthCircuit Shades of Dow Chemical Co. settling for $835 million upon the death of Justice Scalia.