Our Services
- Lead counsel on appeal. Serve as lead counsel in all appellate proceedings in state and federal civil courts.
- Co-counsel on appeal. If there are reasons for others to be lead appellate, we are willing to provide advice and support as co-counsel while others have primary responsibilities.
- Collaboration on briefs. Circulate briefs before filing to an in-house team of readers, who scrutinize and edit to improve both form and substance.
- Collaboration in oral argument preparation. Hold in-house moot courts before oral argument to anticipate questions, discuss the most effective answers, and receive feedback from a panel of colleagues who read the briefs much as the appellate judges will.
- Issue strategy. Identify potential legal issues early to help focus trial-court strategy and enhance the record for appeal.
- Preservation for appeal. Work with trial counsel to preserve key legal issues for appeal.
- Brief legal issues. Brief and argue legal issues before and during trial.
- Pre-suit litigation analysis. Develop pre-suit strategies for claims, defenses, parties, forum selection, and settlement.
- Insurance and indemnity opinions. Review insurance contracts for coverage analysis; provide opinions about indemnity agreements.
- Contract review. Analyze contracts to identify strengths and weaknesses of contractual claims and defenses.
- Case manager. Manage teams of lawyers handling complex litigation in an effort to coordinate strategy, focus efforts, control costs, and identify and achieve desired outcomes.
- Amicus briefs. Prepare amicus briefs for clients including industry trade associations, as well as private corporations or public institutions that may be affected by the outcome of appellate litigation in which they are not direct parties.
- Amicus advice. Provide advice on amicus efforts, and assist with locating sources of amicus support.
- Moot court judging. Conduct moot courts in which we read briefs, simulate a mock appellate oral argument, and ask questions that we think the appellate judges will ask.
- Moot court coaching. Provide coaching and advice for an upcoming appellate oral argument based on our experience as Appellate Advocacy professors in law schools, law school moot court coaches, and experienced oral advocates.
- Represent clients in mediation. Participate in post-trial mediations, present appellate arguments in mediation memoranda and joint sessions, and provide an informed evaluation of likely appellate outcomes.
- Serve as appellate mediators.
