Practice
Appealing a civil judgment, or holding on to one
We take appeals from judgments after trial and from the few orders that can be appealed before one. We also defend judgments: the side that won at trial needs a brief too.
Verdicts and bench decisions
A jury verdict or a judge's decision in a contract, business, property, injury or family case, and the post-trial rulings that came with it.
Defending a judgment you won
When the other side appeals, the respondent's brief keeps the result. We write it to the standard of review that favors you.
Orders you can appeal early
Injunctions, orders denying arbitration and a short list of others don't wait for the end of the case. The clock on each starts at once.
Fee and cost orders
An order for attorney fees or costs is often appealable on its own, with its own deadline.
Writ petitions
When an order can't be appealed yet but can't wait either, a writ asks the higher court to step in now. Few are granted, so we tell you the odds plainly.
Stays and bonds
Pausing a judgment while the appeal runs, and the bond a money judgment usually needs to do it.
Sample matters
Three civil appeals, as they ended
Reversed
Contract judgment
The trial court let in a damages theory the contract excluded. The judgment was reversed and sent back.
Affirmed for our client
Property dispute
We represented the owner who won at trial. The court of appeal kept the judgment as entered.
Remanded
Fee order
A fee order counted hours spent on claims our client won. It went back to be recalculated.
Sample matters, invented for this template; the firm replaces them with its own. Every appeal turns on its own record, and a past outcome doesn't predict the next one.
Lost at trial, or about to be appealed?
Send the date the judgment was entered. Both sides of an appeal run on deadlines, and the respondent's are short too.