Legal Resources
Resources of interest to all appointed appellate counsel, with an emphasis on Fourth District appeals.
General Appellate Practice
- ADI Guidebook
- ADI Manual
- California Supreme Court Practice
- Confidential and Sealed Records
- Electronically Filed Documents Signatures (2023)
- Ethics: Dealing with Unpublished Victories (2016)
- Exhibit Review Procedures (2025)
- Going in Style Articles
- Issue Spotting Article
- Legislative Research
- Motion Practice Guide (2024)
- Recent Opinions, Pending Issues & Pending Legislation
- Redaction and Metadata (2022)
- Retroactivity: Taking Advantage of Changes in the Law & Retroactivity (2019)
- Reversal and Remand: Appellate Counsel’s Duties (2025)
- To Brief or Not to Brief (2023)
- Working with Trial Counsel (2025)
Forms & Samples
Access our library of forms and sample documents. All samples should be adapted to apply to the facts of each particular case.
Changes in the Law
Index of recent developments and changes in the law.
General Appellate Practice
- ADI Guidebook
- ADI Manual
- California Supreme Court Practice
- Confidential and Sealed Records
- Electronically Filed Documents Signatures (2023)
- Ethics: Dealing with Unpublished Victories (2016)
- Exhibit Review Procedures (2025)
- Going in Style Articles
- Issue Spotting Article
- Legislative Research
- Motion Practice Guide (2024)
- Recent Opinions, Pending Issues & Pending Legislation
- Redaction and Metadata (2022)
- Retroactivity: Taking Advantage of Changes in the Law & Retroactivity (2019)
- Reversal and Remand: Appellate Counsel’s Duties (2025)
- To Brief or Not to Brief (2023)
- Working with Trial Counsel (2025)
Forms & Samples
Access our library of forms and sample documents. All samples should be adapted to apply to the facts of each particular case.
Changes in the Law
Index of recent developments and changes in the law.
General Appellate Practice
- ADI Guidebook
- ADI Manual
- California Supreme Court Practice
- Confidential and Sealed Records
- Electronically Filed Documents Signatures (2023)
- Ethics: Dealing with Unpublished Victories (2016)
- Exhibit Review Procedures (2025)
- Going in Style Articles
- Issue Spotting Article
- Legislative Research
- Motion Practice Guide (2024)
- Recent Opinions, Pending Issues & Pending Legislation
- Redaction and Metadata (2022)
- Retroactivity: Taking Advantage of Changes in the Law & Retroactivity (2019)
- Reversal and Remand: Appellate Counsel’s Duties (2025)
- To Brief or Not to Brief (2023)
- Working with Trial Counsel (2025)
Forms & Samples
Access our library of forms and sample documents. All samples should be adapted to apply to the facts of each particular case.
Changes in the Law
Index of recent developments and changes in the law.
Criminal Law
- Accomplice Liability for Murder (SB 1437 and SB 775) (2024)
- CDCR Case Manager Phone Numbers (2022)
- CDCR Litigation Coordinator Contact List (2021)
- Exhausting State Remedies (2023)
- Forfeiture
- LWOP & Sentences Amounting to LWOP in Youth Cases: Cruel & Unusual Punishment with Franklin Materials (2023)
- New Law Redefines Peremptory Challenge Procedures (AB 3070) (2021)
- Obtaining Prior Appellate Record in 1172.6 Appeals
- OSPD IDID Practice Guide on CDCR Guidance After Your Client is Resentenced to Time Served
- Racial Justice Act of 2020 (2024).
- Proposition 36: Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act and Related Legislation (2024).
- Recall of Sentence (PC 1172.1) (2023)
Dependency Law
- Dependency Resources
- Dependency Legal Services
- Guide for Counsel Representing Minors (2014)
- Locating Missing Parents in Dependency Cases (2014)
- New Legislation for Dependency Cases (2023)
- Non Party Records (2022)
- Paternity Basics (2022)
- Procedures in Non-Criminal Cases with no Arguable Issues (2011)
- Reminders to Dependency Attorneys (2010)
- Structuring a Logical Argument in Dependency Cases (2001)
- Sufficiency of the Evidence and the Burden of Proof at Trial (2023)