For many attorneys, our first introduction to something resembling appellate litigation occurred in a first-year legal writing and research class, which culminated in being assigned, together with a classmate, to brief and argue a two-issue hypothetical appeal against another two-student team. You were assigned to brief and argue one of the two issues, while your classmate would brief and argue the other issue.

Many law school moot court competitions replicate that approach. Although a moot court team may be larger than just two people, the hypothetical appellate case being briefed and argued will ordinarily involve two discrete issues, and two students per team will be chosen to argue the appeal, one addressing the first issue, and the other addressing the second issue.

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