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The National Law Journal Quotes Jonathan Freiman on Supreme Court Oral Arguments in the Pandemic Era
Jonathan Freiman was quoted in The National Law Journal article, “Supreme Court Argument Tips from 16 Lawyers Who Made Virus-Era Debuts.” The article offers advice from lawyers who have made the shift since May to telephonic arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, including “veteran appellate lawyers such as Wiggin and Dana partner Jonathan Freiman, who has argued extensively in state and federal appellate courts.” Jonathan, who recently argued for Germany and its Smithsonian-like consortium of Berlin museums in Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp offered this advice on pandemic-era arguments:
“Answer each question on its own terms. Don’t try to pivot to an affirmative point you want to make, because in the new one-justice-at-a-time phone argument system, each justice has very little time to ask questions, and you want to make sure they have time to ask their questions and to hear your answers. Besides, on the phone, where you can’t see people about to say something, if you try to pivot you can end up talking over a justice’s follow-up question.”
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