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Another member of a court of appeals' management team may be its senior staff attorney, who supervises an office of attorneys whose duties range from reviewing all appeals filed by prison inmates without a lawyer's help to drafting proposed opinions on preliminary matters.
Each court of appeals has a circuit mediation program, also referred to as a conference attorney program. Although programs vary from court to court, the primary goal of the program is to achieve settlement of pending cases prior to submission to a panel of judges for decision.
The circuit librarian is appointed by each court of appeals and is responsible for the administration of the library program and related services within the circuit.
An important inquiry early on in any journalist's dealings with a federal court of appeals is to identify the person(s) within the court authorized to talk to the news media. Most courts of appeals do not have a public information officer, but the circuit executive or clerk of court likely has designated an individual who deals with the news media on a daily basis.
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