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Best wishes for a healthy, happy, and rewarding 2010!

Best wishes for a healthy, happy, and rewarding 2010! Thanks so very much to all of this blog's readers for their frequent visits to the site in 2009, and a special thanks to those readers who took the time to send along thoughts, links, or tips via email.

2009 was a wonderful year for me. At work, even before yesterday's important victory, 2009 was a great year -- the best since I began my solo appellate practice. I wrote a total of twenty-one appellate briefs. I presented eight appellate oral arguments. I wrote two responses in opposition to complex post-trial motions filed to challenge the verdicts that resolved two lengthy jury trials and assisted in briefing post-trial motions filed in a third case that's at least equally as complicated. One of these three cases has already resulted in appellate work (namely, the Brief for Appellees that I filed in the Pa. Superior Court two days ago) and the other two are likely to do so in 2010. And this year is already off to a fast start, with several appellate briefs due this month and a federal court appellate oral argument likely to occur later this month.

Here at "How Appealing" in 2009 -- in addition to the usual volume of frequently updated new posts -- I made blog-related visits to New Orleans; Covington, Kentucky; Huntington, West Virginia; and Washington, DC. The trip to New Orleans was particularly wonderful, given that my wife was finally again able to accompany me on a blog-related trip (her first since we went to Brainerd, Minnesota in July, 2006), and this blog's readers provided excellent suggestions for restaurants and other fun things to do.

On the home front, 2009 also had many fond memories. The baseball team on which my son played had a better end to its year than the Philadelphia Phillies did, although the opposing team admittedly did not have the payroll of the New York Yankees. My son and I attended a Phillies World Series home game for the second year in a row, and the Phillies won both of those games. We also got to see every Phillies minor league team play at home except for the ones based in Florida. We attended a minor league baseball all star game. We got to see games played in the new Yankees and Mets stadiums. And we won't soon forget our early September minor and major league baseball road trip that took us to Williamsport, Pa.; Altoona, Pa. (where the Altoona Curve baseball team features mascot Al Tuna, seen here on video); Niles, Ohio, Akron; Cleveland; and Pittsburgh, before a non-baseball stop at the Gettysburg battlefields. For 2010, we've purchased a full season ticket plan for the Phillies, in place of the Sunday plan that we've enjoyed in years past. Last but not least, in 2009 I officially turned old.

In closing, thanks to all of this blog's readers and to my clients, colleagues, friends, and family who made 2009 such a wonderful year. And I hope that 2010 is an even better year for all.

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 01, 2010 (boomark / email).