Cory Webster Appointed to Ninth Circuit Advisory Committee

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announced today that Cory Webster was appointed by Chief Judge Mary Murguia to the Ninth Circuit’s Advisory Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure.

The Advisory Committee was appointed by the court in 1984, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2077. The committee first undertook a major restructuring of the Ninth Circuit Rules with the objective of updating the rules to reflect current practice, putting the rules into a simpler format and style, and renumbering the rules to confirm to the numbering sequence of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Webster is highly skilled in drafting appellate briefs in the California Court of Appeal, California Supreme Court, and the Ninth Circuit, as well as post-trial motions and letter briefs to appellate courts. He often educates and mentors on legal writing. In his practice, he advises clients and trial counsel on appellate options after adverse non-dispositive rulings, and he prepares and defends against writ petitions in appellate courts.

While in law school, Webster authored the case problem for the National Entertainment Moot Court Competition. He also served as a teaching assistant in legal research and writing and appellate advocacy courses.

Webster earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law.