It is difficult for an attorney with a busy practice to find the uninterrupted time it takes to do quality appellate-level research and write a brief. This is especially true if your client's case poses a new or important constitutional or statutory question, requires a state-by-state comparison of law, or involves legislative history.

I can furnish a well researched, well documented, well written, and good-looking brief.

Some attorneys are simply not interested in appellate litigation. Moreover, separate appellate counsel may improve your client's case because the appellate attorney was not involved with trial strategy decisions and therefore is not colored by them.

I can seamlessly assume your client's case and conduct the appeal from notice of appeal through final decision.

Your client's case may pose a new or important question of law which needs to be fully presented to the trial court. It is often difficult, however, for an attorney with a busy trial calendar to find the time to assemble more than cursory motions.

I can provide you with motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, other pre-trial motions, memoranda of law, objections, motions to reconsider, notices of appeal, and other pleadings. I can conduct pre-complaint research so you can advise your client on the chances for success if suit is commenced, and so you can later conduct discovery focused on the precise legal elements your case presents. I also do non-litigation research so you can advise your client on a proposed course of action fully apprised of current law.

I generally bill at the same rate you have negotiated with your client, but am willing to discuss any payment arrangement which would satisfy your client and you. You may pass along the cost of my assistance as "research services," or you can provide your client with a copy of my bill. If I conduct an appeal, I can bill the client directly, and the trial attorney need not be involved. In either case, my bills contain a detailed accounting of time and costs.