Civil Service Advocacy Series
By: Broida
Price: $125.00
Edition: 1st
Sku: 14BOMP
Samples: Workbook Table of Contents
Format: 4hr 11min .mp4 video on DVD-ROM; workbook; + optional 50% off MSPB Basics
*optional 50% off MSPB Basics (for appellants) and/or MSPB Basics: The Agency Edition

Presented by Peter Broida, who writes the principal treatise on MSPB practice, this video training course covers the major elements of representation of agencies and appellants before MSPB judges. The course includes Mr. Broida’s lecture (.mp4 video sent on a DVD-ROM), a workbook, and optional 50% off MSPB Basics: A Brief Guide for the Distressed and Perplexed and/or MSPB Basics: The Agency Edition. The workbook contains a course notes-outline, reference materials, cases and a bibliography.
The course provides instruction for individuals or groups on:
- MSPB structure and jurisdiction
- Litigation basics- working with judges, opposing counsel and pro se appellants
- Purpose of the adjudication process
- Components of the Board’s record-defining the issues and developing the record
- Litigation management-litigation master file, correspondence file, research folder, and evidence folders
- Appeal timeliness
- Gathering information before the appeal or during the appeal and outside discovery
- Initiation of an appeal before the Board-content of the appeal, acknowledgment order and the agency’s response to the appeal
- Motion practice-structure of a motion, responses and procedural and jurisdictional motions
- Discovery-interrogatories, taking and defending depositions, document requests, limitations on discovery, physical or mental examinations, objections and motions to compel, and protective agreements and orders
- Prehearing orders and conferences-prehearing orders, submissions, conferences and summaries
- Hearing preparation-hearing notebook, exhibit notebooks, witness preparation and working with a technical advisor
- Hearing-presentation of the evidence through witness testimony and exhibits, making and responding to to objections, and closing arguments and briefs
- Petition for review and judicial review-length limitations and responses
- Settlement—settlement binder, settlement agreement provisions and considerations
.mp4 video on DVD-ROM & workbook
Additional workbooks sell for $25 each or in sets of 10 for $150. Call or email to purchase.
*optional 50% off MSPB Basics (for appellants) and/or MSPB Basics: The Agency Edition
