Appellate Practice

Almost every litigation matter carries with it the possibility of an appeal. Strategic thinking about the facts, the law and possible appeal points is needed ahead of time to ensure that cases are handled with an eye toward the final result, which may be reached only after the appeal. Williams Mullen offers a team of attorneys fully dedicated to the appellate process and experienced in the appellate courts. At the pretrial, trial and post-verdict stages, our appellate lawyers focus on:

• preserving the client’s right to appeal errors of the trial court
• ensuring a proper jury charge and proper post-trial motions
• making a record from which an appeal can be effectively taken

Almost every litigation matter carries with it the possibility of an appeal. Strategic thinking about the facts, the law and possible appeal points is needed ahead of time to ensure that cases are handled with an eye toward the final result, which may be reached only after the appeal. Williams Mullen offers a team of attorneys fully dedicated to the appellate process and experienced in the appellate courts. At the pretrial, trial and post-verdict stages, our appellate lawyers focus on:

• preserving the client’s right to appeal errors of the trial court
• ensuring a proper jury charge and proper post-trial motions
• making a record from which an appeal can be effectively taken

Providing Appellate-Related Services at All Litigation Stages
The Williams Mullen Appellate Practice Group provides appellate-related services at all litigation stages. These include pretrial case analysis, developing the jury charge, post-trial motion practice, identifying possible appeal issues, and error preservation. At the appellate stage, on behalf of appellants and appellees as well as amicus curiae, our services include developing the record on appeal and assigning error, research, development of legal issues and arguments, appellate motion practice, top-notch briefing, and oral argument.

Appellate Attorneys for North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and the Nation
The Williams Mullen Appellate Practice group is led by the former Solicitor General for the State of North Carolina who in that role argued four times before the U.S. Supreme Court, and includes lawyers who have served as clerks to justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Supreme Court of North Carolina and to judges of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina and the federal appellate courts. Our appellate practice attorneys are acquainted with and practice not only in North Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C., but also in state appellate and federal circuit courts around the country. These include the District of Columbia Circuit, the Second Circuit, Fifth Circuit, Sixth Circuit and Eleventh Circuit.