Appellate Advocacy

Appellate Experience

Appellate briefing: We provide comprehensive and persuasive appellate briefing in appeals at the state and federal level.

Appellate argument: Our team has extensive experience with the unique skills required for presenting oral arguments in state and federal appellate courts.

Consultation with trial counsel: We are often retained as monitoring counsel providing guidance and trial strategy to develop a robust appellate record preceding and during trial.

General appellate advice: We provide guidance on appellate matters, including post-trial, as amicus curiae, and for administrative appeals.

Amicus counsel: Our team has also been asked to prepare amicus curiae briefs to appellate courts deciding important issues impacting our clients.

Why Choose LCBF

The firm has a seasoned and thriving appellate practice. Our wide-ranging experience in appellate matters runs the gamut of the firm’s practice areas, and we have obtained successful results in the great majority of U.S. Courts of Appeals and the highest courts of numerous states. Representative appellate court decisions are listed below.

We typically handle post-trial motions and appeals in cases that our own firm has tried. Moreover, clients often ask us to either assist or assume prime responsibility for representing their interests in post-verdict and appellate proceedings involving difficult or high-exposure cases. We are also frequently retained by our clients as appellate counsel long before a verdict at the trial level (often as early as the filing of the complaint). We frequently work behind the scenes with trial counsel, providing guidance pre-trial and summary judgment stages, and at trial to provide trial motion support and otherwise best preserve the trial record for appeal.

LCBF’s deep appellate experience strengthens the firm’s ability to fashion strategies to achieve favorable outcomes at or before trial. By the same token, the firm’s knowledge and rich practical experience in trying cases substantially enhances our ability to identify and persuasively advocate the most promising issues in the appellate courts both in our briefs and at oral argument.