Perhaps nothing frustrates appellate counsel more than discovering that a valid argument on appeal is foreclosed by trial counsel’s failure to properly raise the argument in the district court.

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Professor Bennett Gershman and Joel Cohen, a senior counsel at Petrillo Klein & Boxer, engage in a back and forth over a perplexing ethical and practical issue that has recently arisen and may ...