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Indianapolis, IN
May 2, 2007
PATTON TO PARTICIPATE IN MOCK ARGUMENT AT NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER IN
PHILADELPHIA
***Panel Includes Judge Kenneth Starr***
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Bose McKinney & Evans LLP is pleased to announce that partner
George T. Patton, Jr.,
will participate in the opening event of the Bernard G. Segal Institute for
Appellate Advocacy LLC from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., May 29, at the National
Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Patton will begin the event with a mock argument against Miami, Fla. attorney
Neal Sonnett involving judicial independence in the context of campaign
contributions to judicial candidates.
Each attorney will have 20 minutes to present his case before a panel of former
judges that include Kenneth Starr, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit; William Webster, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit;
Henry Frye, Supreme Court of North Carolina; Miriam Shearing, Supreme Court of
Nevada; and Phyllis Beck, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Superior Court, the
intermediate appellate court in Pennsylvania.
Following the arguments, Seth Andersen, former vice president of the American
Judicature Society and Lynn Marks, former director of the Pennsylvanians for
Modern Courts, will moderate a panel discussion on the subject.
The Bernard G. Segal Institute for Appellate Advocacy was founded to respond to
the emergence of appellate practice as a distinct legal specialty.
Currently practicing from the firm’s Washington D.C. office located at 1120 20th
Street, N.W., in Lafayette Centre, Patton practices primarily in
appellate litigation,
election law and constitutional issues.
He has been a practicing attorney since October 1987 and a member of the firm
since August 1989. He was an adjunct assistant professor of appellate advocacy
at the Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington for five years while
practicing at the firm. Patton has served as the first Chair of the American Bar
Association’s Council of Appellate Lawyers, the first national appellate
bench-bar group, and the first Chair of the Indiana State Bar Association’s
Appellate Practice Section as well as the former Treasurer for the Edward Coke
Appellate Inn of Court in Washington, D.C., the only appellate inn of court in
the country.
Patton authored Indiana Practice Appellate Procedure (3rd edition, West Group
2001 & 2006 Supp.) and is the author of four articles in the Indiana Law Review
on appellate procedure. He also co-authored a chapter on appellate briefs in
“The Attorney’s Guide to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit.” Prior to joining the firm, Patton served for two years as a judicial
law clerk to Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard. He graduated, cum
laude, from Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington and received his
A.B., cum laude, from Wabash College.
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