The U.S. Supreme Court announced this week that it will hold oral arguments in May by teleconference and that “[d]etails will be shared as they become available.” Those details matter—they’ll help determine whether the Court’s pandemic-forced innovation will succeed.
I argued an appeal by phone last week. That gives me exactly one more such argument than many appellate lawyers—who, like me until very recently, have done zero. That doesn’t make me an expert, but my experience has led to thoughts on how the Supreme Court can make the best of this format.
