Comments about ‘Appellate law is 'philosophy in action,' Zimmerman says’

Re: "Appellate law is 'philosophy in action'"

Yeah -- that about says it. Philosophy is the deadliest of all deadly-dull subjects in academia. Appellate practice is the deadliest of a long list of deadly-dull specialties within law practice.

It makes me smile to hear that there are lawyers, gluttonous enough for punishment, that they actually volunteer to specialize in it.

It gives the rest of us a fighting chance to avoid the weeks/months/years of mind-numbing research and writing, the moral and intellectual compromises necessary to distill it all down to a 10-minute argument, and the frustration that arises from the fact that we all know going in, that appellate judges will never let us make the argument, anyway.

All the best!