• Practical advice on handling appeals
• An overview of the Colorado justice system
• Informed discussions on the statutes, rules, and cases that govern the appellate process
• Separate chapters on finality, the general requirement for judgments to be appealable, and exceptions to the requirement for finality
• Coverage of important subjects such as preserving issues for appeal and the role of postjudgment motions
• Extensive annotations on standards of review
• Tables of statutes, rules, and cases

Topics include:

• Selection of judges
• Appellate jurisdiction
• Posttrial motions
• Stay of judgment
• Municipal and county court appeals
• Appeals from administrative agencies
• Procedure in district court appeals
• Notice of appeal, motions practice
• Supreme Court original proceedings
• Petitions for Certiorari
• Error and standards of review
• Appellate briefs
• Oral argument
• Appellate courts' opinion
• Petition for rehearing
• Costs, sanctions, fees, and interest