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<font face="Arial" color="#333333" style="font-weight:700" size="4">The 4th Annual Appellate Practice Institute</font></p>

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<font face="Arial" size="2">This is THE conference to attend, whether you are an 

experienced practitioner or new to the appellate process! Join your colleagues 

for this detailed exploration of appellate law and practice where you ll get 

practical advice and updates from the judges themselves and from seasoned 

practitioners, plus a short-course immersion in effective writing and advocacy 

from a renowned professor and author.</font></p>

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	Take your legal writing and advocacy to the next level with Professor 

	Timothy Terrell s guidance.</font></p></li>

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	Hear from eleven judges about appellate decision-making, strategies for 

	approaching appellate cases, and the year ahead   plus a review of Professor 

	Terrell s presentation.</font></p></li>

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	Learn the latest revisions to the Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure, the 

	news about electronic filing at the Eighth Circuit, and the most important 

	case updates.</font></p></li>

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	Meet and mingle with your appellate practice colleagues and members of the 

	bench at our annual reception.</font></p></li>

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	And much more!</font></p></li>

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		Featuring Special Appearances by:</font></b></p>

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	Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals:</font></b></p>

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	Judge Kermit E. Bye</font></p>

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	Minnesota Supreme Court:</font></b></p>

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	Chief Justice Eric J. Magnuson</font></p>

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	Associate Justice Alan C. Page</font></p>

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	Associate Justice Paul H. Anderson </font></p>

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	Associate Justice G. Barry Anderson</font></p>

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	U.S. District Court:</font></b></p>

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	Judge Joan N. Ericksen</font></p>

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	Minnesota Court of Appeals:</font></b></p>

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	Chief Judge Edward Toussaint, Jr.</font></p>

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	Judge Natalie E. Hudson</font></p>

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	Judge Michelle Ann Larkin</font></p>

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	Judge Louise Dovre Bjorkman</font></p>

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	Judge Bruce D. Willis (retired)<br>

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<b><font face="Arial" size="3">Special 

Presentation by Professor Timothy P. Terrell <br>

(back by popular demand!)</font></b></p>

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		<img border="0" src="/Materials/Seminars/55910_terrellphoto.jpg" align="left"></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2">Nationally recognized speaker and author Professor 

Timothy P. Terrell from Emory University School of Law will return to present a 

new three-hour intensive advocacy and writing course, <i><b>Persuasion and the 

Art of Storytelling: Organizing Facts and Law, and the Elusive Quality of 

 Style </b></i></font></p></td>

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