Litigation sometimes does not end with a decision from a judge or a jury. The losing party, and sometimes the winning party, has a right to seek an appeal from any final decision in a lawsuit rendered by a judge or a jury. An appeal is a request to a three judge panel, in most matters, to have the decision reviewed in an effort to insure that the decision was rendered fairly. Rarely, the decision of the Court of Appeals is allowed further appeal to either the Supreme Court in any given state or to the Supreme Court of the United States. Like the trial court, the appellate court have their own Rules of Procedure that require attention to detail in the assertion of the appeal, preparing and presenting the appeal, and sometimes presenting oral argument to a panel of judges.

Our litigators have asserted and defended appeals and they are intimately familiar with the appellate rules of procedure. Many of our attorneys started their legal careers as law clerks to judges in the state and federal appellate courts which graces these lawyers with a keen understanding of these courts.