Total Credits: 1 CLE
SEMINAR: Amendments to the Rules of Procedure for Special Actions
DISCUSSION ON THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR SPECIAL ACTIONS:
On August 4, 2023, the Arizona Supreme Court established the Task Force on Rules of Procedure for Special Actions to restyle the current Rules of Procedure for Special Actions based on styling conventions employed in other recent rule restyling projects and to integrate into the rules the principles of recent case law and to propose substantive changes to the rules that would optimize the use of court resources for such actions. While these changes remain open to public comment and input, the Appellate Practice Section invites you to join a number of distinguished members of the Task Force—Hon. Sara J. Agne, Hon. Andrew Jacobs, and Eric M. Fraser—to discuss the reasons the Task Force was created, the goals of the Task Force, and the proposed changes, the rationale for the same, and their effects.
FACULTY:
Hon. Sara J. Agne
Hon. Andrew Jacobs
Eric M. Fraser
MODERATOR:
David A. Timchak
DATE: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
TIME: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
LOCATION: This CLE will be held at the state courts building at 1501 W. Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona, on the First Floor in Room 101 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
REGISTRATION: FREE for Appellate Practice Section Members, $20 for Non-Members.
To register for the program, click HERE
**May Qualify for 1.0 CLE Credit**
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was appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court on December 13, 2017, and took the bench in early 2018. Judge Agne serves as the Arizona Tax Court Presiding Judge, and has a calendar that includes Commercial Court cases, while generally presiding over cases for the Civil Department of the Court. After graduation from the University of Michigan Law School, Judge Agne was a lawyer with Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., first as an Associate and then as a Partner in its Special Litigation and Compliance Group. Judge Agne co-chairs the Arizona Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Evidence and has served for nine years on the State Bar of Arizona Civil Practice and Procedure Committee. The judge is a veteran petitioner of several court rules cycles for a variety of rule sets and chaired the Ariz. R. Civ. P. 5.4 Working Group in 2018 and 2019. During the pandemic, Judge Agne chaired the Task Force on Conducting Juvenile Court Proceedings Safely in a Community Experiencing the Spread of an Infectious Disease, earning recognition as a "Presiding Judge's COVID Hero" for that work. A former journalist, Judge Agne earned a B.A. in Journalism from Arizona State University, serving as Editor in Chief of the University's morning daily, The State Press, as a college senior.
was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals by Governor Katie Hobbs on February 21, 2023. He studied history at the University of Illinois, and graduated Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 1992, where he was a research assistant to Professor Laurence Tribe. He was a partner at Jenner & Block in Chicago and Snell & Wilmer in Tucson and Phoenix, and led Snell’s appellate practice for thirteen years. The Arizona Supreme Court has appointed Andrew to six bodies: Judicial Performance Review, the Task Force on the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure, the Committee for Civil Justice Reform, the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, the Task Force on Jury Data Collection, Practices, and Procedures, and the Task Force on the Rules of Procedure for Special Actions. Andrew has served on the Arizona State Bar’s Civil Practice and Procedure Committee for fifteen years and was its Chair from 2014-18. He served in the Arizona State Bar Batson Working Group. Andrew was a principal initial drafter of Ariz. R. Civ. P. 26.2 (tiering) and has contributed to many more court rules. He served in the Ninth Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Rules and Civil Practice. He co-founded the District of Arizona’s pro bono program in 2006 and coordinated it for five years. He was the lawyer coordinator for the Ninth Circuit’s pro bono program from 2007-23 for Arizona and Nevada, and for the Arizona Court of Appeals for Division Two from 2014-23. He placed over 220 pro bono cases in these roles. Andrew was admitted to practice in Illinois, Arizona, and Nevada, joining their bars, the ABA, and the Arizona LGBT Bar, as a member of that community. He is also a member of AWLA, Los Abogados, and AAABA, and mentors in the Latina Mentoring Project. He re-founded the Arizona Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society and was its President for many years. Andrew argued sixty civil appeals among three federal circuits and six states. He took two cases to the U.S. Supreme Court as counsel of record. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a Member of the American Law Institute, a co-editor of the Arizona Appellate Handbook, and was an Arizona State Bar Member of the Year in 2016.
is a partner and co-chair of the appellate practice at Osborn Maledon, where his practice focuses on major civil appeals. He coauthors a monthly column in Arizona Attorney magazine covering civil appeals, coedits the azapp.com blog, and contributes to SCOTUSblog. He is a former chair of the State Bar's Appellate Practice Section. Eric received his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in Physics from Pomona College. Before joining private practice, Eric clerked for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
