🎙#080: Paresh Patel - Appellate Federal Public Defender
👋 Welcome back to the How I Lawyer Podcast!
In today's episode (#80!) I speak with Paresh Patel who is currently the Chief of Appeals at the Office of the Federal Defender for the District of Maryland where he has worked for the past 18 years. In this role he represents clients on post conviction matters including direct appeal and federal habeas. He also assists trial attorneys on complex legal issues that arise in their cases.
In our conversation we discuss his path to becoming a public defender, the unique role of an appellate lawyer in the federal criminal system, the United States Sentencing Guidelines, the ways criminal law and criminal prosecutors have changed over the past two decades and how those changes have affected his role, how he drafts briefs and prepares for oral argument, the process for becoming a public defender, the impact of storytelling in his writing, the strategy of balancing the arguments of individual clients and other similarly situated criminal defendants, and the power of on the job learning as a young lawyer.
🎙Listen Now: Paresh Patel
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Jonah
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