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.£) (sic) Describe thm aspects of your legal erience whibh . you ‘believe especSly qualify you to be a dge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. - Throughout my legal experience, commencing with my clerkship, I have been engaged extensively in appellate work. Together with my legislative and my teaching experience, I think I have had unique exposure to the ingredients of the appellate process. “4 Court and/or administrative agency experience with respect to the last five years (or the last five years which you practiced law): a) Did you appear in court or before administrative agencies regularly, occasionally or not at all? If the frequency of your appearance has varied during this period, describe each such variance, giving the dates thereof. Regularly. b) What percentage of these appearances was in 1) Federal courts 40% 2) State courts of record, ’ 30% 3) Before administrative agencies 30% 4) Before other courts, including quasi-judicial bodies None c) What percentage of your litigation was 1) Civil 903 2) Criminal 10% d) State the number of cases in trial courts of record you tried to verdict or judgement (rather than settled), indicating whether you were sole counsel, chief counsel, or associate counsel and describe the type of experience. 40. In all of these, I was either the sole or chief counsel. They involved primarily civil matters, usually in the chancery (equity) courts of Illinois. Approximately 10 of them were in the federal courts and included censorship cases, tax cases, bankruptcy claims, contracts and one or two suits involving the U.S. government. Most of the cases were non=jury. My involvement included everything from the initial pleadings, presentation of witnesses, submission of trial briefs and documentation, and the handling of appeals, if any. Py