Our team of award-winning brief writers and veteran oral advocates handles appeals and case-shaping motions in the U.S. Supreme Court, every federal court of appeals, state supreme courts and courts of appeal, and trial courts across the country. Half of our attorneys have completed appellate clerkships, including on the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and state supreme courts. Several held senior positions in state Solicitor General offices, where they led their states’ most consequential trial and appellate matters. We bring clarity and strategic judgment to the hardest legal questions, whether the objective is to reverse an adverse ruling, defend a critical victory, or shape emerging areas of law.
Because appeals are won with issues framed and preserved in the lower court, our Critical Motions & Appeals attorneys work as part of the trial team from the start. They identify the questions likely to decide the case, brief critical motions, and build a record that protects every argument for review.
Clients retain us at every stage: before a complaint is filed, at the outset of a case, ahead of trial, after judgment, or as appellate counsel in matters tried by other firms. We also coordinate strategy across related cases and jurisdictions when parallel proceedings raise the same issues. The goal is always the same: briefs and arguments that give courts both the legal foundation to rule for our clients and the confidence that doing so is right.
How We Help
Our attorneys regularly handle:
- Appeals from final judgments
- Dispositive motions, including motions to dismiss, to compel arbitration, and for summary judgment
- Venue and forum motions
- Motions for preliminary injunctions and TROs
- Class certification, expert (Daubert), and motions in limine
- Trial-team support and error preservation
- Jury instructions and post-trial motions
- Interlocutory and supervisory review, including mandamus and petitions for permission to appeal
- Petitions for certiorari, rehearing, and other discretionary review
- Emergency stays and injunctions pending appeal
- Amicus briefs
- Challenges to, and defenses of, agency action
- Challenges to statutes and regulations
