25 min
Career Appellate Prosecutor Dishes On What It's Really Like To Argue Before The Supreme Court with Lisa Sarnoff Gochman The Jabot
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In this episode, Kathryn welcomes Lisa Sarnoff Gochman, an appellate lawyer and author of the book At the Altar of the Appellate Gods: Arguing before the US Supreme Court, to talk about how her career shifted from being in law school to being an appellate lawyer who has spent the last 40 years writing. Lisa also discusses how an appellate attorney is different from a lawyer doing trial work. She recalls how she worked her way up from the Bronx District Attorney's office to the New Jersey Supreme Court and ended up working on a case that went all the way to the US Supreme Court.
Who’s The Guest?
Lisa Sarnoff Gochman is a retired New Jersey Deputy Attorney General, with twenty-six years of experience, who specializes in complex criminal appellate litigation. She argued before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case Apprendi v. New Jersey.
Lisa is a graduate of the University of Rochester and Cardozo School of Law in New York City. She is a career appellate prosecutor and currently serves as an Of Counsel to the Appellate Section of the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.
Episode Resources
https://go.authorsguild.org/members/7023 http://www.lisagochmanauthor.com/ https://twitter.com/gochmanlisa https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-gochman-36b49236 At the Altar of the Appellate Gods: Arguing before the US Supreme Court
Episode Highlights Looking back: Why Lisa Sarnoff Gochman decided to go to law school Differences between trial and appellate work What an appellate attorney does How she determined how his law career will be The case of Charles Apprendi: A New Jersey hate crime Impact of gender diversity on the Supreme Court bar Dealing with the decision of the case The book writing process: What motivated Lisa to write the book
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In this episode, Kathryn welcomes Lisa Sarnoff Gochman, an appellate lawyer and author of the book At the Altar of the Appellate Gods: Arguing before the US Supreme Court, to talk about how her career shifted from being in law school to being an appellate lawyer who has spent the last 40 years writing. Lisa also discusses how an appellate attorney is different from a lawyer doing trial work. She recalls how she worked her way up from the Bronx District Attorney's office to the New Jersey Supreme Court and ended up working on a case that went all the way to the US Supreme Court.
Who’s The Guest?
Lisa Sarnoff Gochman is a retired New Jersey Deputy Attorney General, with twenty-six years of experience, who specializes in complex criminal appellate litigation. She argued before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case Apprendi v. New Jersey.
Lisa is a graduate of the University of Rochester and Cardozo School of Law in New York City. She is a career appellate prosecutor and currently serves as an Of Counsel to the Appellate Section of the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.
Episode Resources
https://go.authorsguild.org/members/7023 http://www.lisagochmanauthor.com/ https://twitter.com/gochmanlisa https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-gochman-36b49236 At the Altar of the Appellate Gods: Arguing before the US Supreme Court
Episode Highlights Looking back: Why Lisa Sarnoff Gochman decided to go to law school Differences between trial and appellate work What an appellate attorney does How she determined how his law career will be The case of Charles Apprendi: A New Jersey hate crime Impact of gender diversity on the Supreme Court bar Dealing with the decision of the case The book writing process: What motivated Lisa to write the book
Episode Sponsored By
https://pli.edu/
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25 min