{"id":407,"date":"2026-05-05T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=407"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:31:38","slug":"duane-morris-partner-benjamin-shatz-named-president-of-the-california-academy-of-appellate-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2026\/05\/05\/duane-morris-partner-benjamin-shatz-named-president-of-the-california-academy-of-appellate-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Duane Morris Partner Benjamin Shatz Named President of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/Ben-Shatz-CA-Acc-of-Appel-Lawyers-2026-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/Ben-Shatz-CA-Acc-of-Appel-Lawyers-2026-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/Ben-Shatz-CA-Acc-of-Appel-Lawyers-2026-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/Ben-Shatz-CA-Acc-of-Appel-Lawyers-2026-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/Ben-Shatz-CA-Acc-of-Appel-Lawyers-2026-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/Ben-Shatz-CA-Acc-of-Appel-Lawyers-2026-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/Ben-Shatz-CA-Acc-of-Appel-Lawyers-2026-2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/05\/Ben-Shatz-CA-Acc-of-Appel-Lawyers-2026-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/benjaminshatz.html\">Benjamin Shatz<\/a>, a partner in the firm&#8217;s Los Angeles office, has been named as the next president of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.CalAppellate.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers<\/a> is the nation\u2019s oldest lawyers\u2019 organization dedicated to appellate practice. Its members are California lawyers with substantial appellate experience, who are elected to membership after rigorous scrutiny of their reputation, character and appellate advocacy skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Shatz, a partner in the firm&#8217;s Los Angeles office, has been named as the next president of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers. The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers is the nation\u2019s oldest lawyers\u2019 organization dedicated to appellate practice. Its members are California lawyers with substantial appellate experience, who are elected to membership after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2026\/05\/05\/duane-morris-partner-benjamin-shatz-named-president-of-the-california-academy-of-appellate-lawyers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Duane Morris Partner Benjamin Shatz Named President of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[238],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":238,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}