Presentation and Signing:At The Altar of The Appellate Gods by Lisa Gochman

All are welcome to join for a presentation and signing with Lisa Sarnoff Gochman, author of At The Altar of The Appellate Gods: Arguing before the US Supreme Court.

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About the Author:

Lisa Gochman is a recently-retired career appellate prosecutor (Bronx District Attorney’s Office; Office of the New Jersey Attorney General, Division of Criminal Justice; Office of the New Jersey Insurance Fraud Prosecutor; Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office). Lisa has appeared before the New Jersey Supreme Court 25 times and represented the State of New Jersey before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark criminal case, Apprendi v. New Jersey. Her memoir, “At the Altar of the Appellate Gods” (Indiana University Press 2022), captures the terror, wonder, and joy of arguing before the Rehnquist Court in March 2000. Lisa and her husband Steven live at the Jersey Shore.

About the Book:

Have you ever wondered what it's like to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States?

In this poignant and compelling memoir, Lisa Sarnoff Gochman captures the terror, wonder, and joy of preparing for and arguing a landmark criminal case before the nine justices of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. At the Altar of the Appellate Gods traces the arc of a violent, racially motivated crime by white supremacist Charles C. Apprendi Jr. in rural Vineland, New Jersey, through the New Jersey state court system, and all the way up to the Supreme Court, where Gochman defended the constitutionality of New Jersey's Hate Crime Statute before a very hot bench. Gochman went head-to-head with Justice Antonin Scalia, fielded tough questions from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and strolled down memory lane with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Told with grace and humor, At the Altar of the Appellate Gods will interest anyone who is curious about the inner workings of our court system and what it is really like to bring a case before the highest court in the country.

See you at this very interesting book event!

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