The Method is the textbook of the Record-Driven BIA Appeal Series:
It explains what record-driven advocacy is, why the Board reviews records rather than holds hearings, how appellate theories are discovered inside a record, and how to use every Teaching Case. It also includes the series roadmap and the practice instruments used throughout the curriculum.
You don't have to learn or buy everything at once.
Read the textbook first, then apply the method to your own writing, in your own style.
This is a textbook for practicing attorneys, not a formula to copy.
There is rarely only one right way to brief an appeal. My goal is simply to show you another way to read the record and build appellate arguments.
If you want to see the method applied in real litigation, the six Teaching Cases are available individually.
Each one reconstructs a different appeal and teaches a different mental model for approaching appellate records.
Start with the lesson that best matches the case in front of you today, or build the complete Record-Driven Method over time.
The Method is the textbook of the Record-Driven BIA Appeal Series:
It explains what record-driven advocacy is, why the Board reviews records rather than holds hearings, how appellate theories are discovered inside a record, and how to use every Teaching Case. It also includes the series roadmap and the practice instruments used throughout the curriculum.
You don't have to learn or buy everything at once.
Read the textbook first, then apply the method to your own writing, in your own style.
This is a textbook for practicing attorneys, not a formula to copy.
There is rarely only one right way to brief an appeal. My goal is simply to show you another way to read the record and build appellate arguments.
If you want to see the method applied in real litigation, the six Teaching Cases are available individually.
Each one reconstructs a different appeal and teaches a different mental model for approaching appellate records.
Start with the lesson that best matches the case in front of you today, or build the complete Record-Driven Method over time.
