October 19, 2023, 1:15 - 2:15 p.m. (Post-Luncheon CLE)

22 Person Limit due to capacity

Appellate Law and Court of Appeals Implications – 1 CLE Credit

Presenters: W. Thomas Chappell and F. Nash Bilisoly, Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black

Title: “A Haunted House of Procedural Default: Spooky Ways to Hurt (or Lose) Your Appeal at Trial”

Summary:

• The expansion of the Court of Appeals and the new right of appeal for civil litigants in Virginia courts requires litigators to be cognizant of how things done or not done at trial may affect a future appeal
• The presentation will focus on several areas where civil litigators may foreclose issues for an appeal or an appeal altogether by doing such things as failing to preserve error properly or waiving issues
• It will also focus on technical aspects that are important including ensuring that there is a sufficient record on appeal and that proper timing and procedure is followed in noting an appeal and in posting the appropriate appeal and suspension bonds

Area of law: Appellate

Must be present at the start of the CLE program until the end in order to received credit(s).

Additional Details:
Please contact bar association staff at (757) 622-3152 or email contact@norfolkportsmouthbar.org if you have any questions.

*Application for approval for this course or program is pending with the Virginia Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board.