Post-Trial and Appellate Advocacy Practice Group

PIONEERING

Established more than a quarter-century ago, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin's Post-Trial and Appellate Advocacy Practice Group began as a pioneer in its field and continues its leadership in providing fully cooperative, innovative, objectively thorough, and technologically advanced services to help clients achieve their litigation goals as early and as economically as possible.

EXPERIENCED

Our Post-Trial and Appellate Advocacy Practice Group attorneys have been involved in more than 1,600 cases, and they continue to provide solid and efficient litigation support through sound advice and guidance and zealous hard work in the evaluation, development, and promotion of clients' interests in the pre-trial, trial, and post-trial phases of their cases.

ORIENTED

Our Post-Trial and Appellate Advocacy Practice Group attorneys work closely with clients and trial counsel, and they impart the unique perspectives of the post-trial and appellate courts in the execution of their dual mission: to augment the depth and effectiveness of pre-trial and trial teams, and to prosecute and defend post-trial motions and appeals.

EFFECTIVE

As their practice group's title implies, the work of our firm's appellate attorneys includes front-line responsibility for conducting the necessary legal research, for writing the required briefs, and for preparing and presenting oral arguments in post-trial motions and appeals.  By undertaking the execution of those tasks, our appellate team enables our clients' trial attorneys to meet the demands of the trial courts free from the radically different, deceptively intricate, and time-consuming regimens of the post-trial and appellate courts.

TEAMWORK

In addition, our appellate attorneys employ the unique insights gained from their interactions with the appellate courts to support trial counsel in the development and prosecution of dispositive pre-trial motions, in the strategic legal research and analysis of complex and first-impression issues, and in the development of effective trial strategies and tactics.

HIGH STANDARDS

Our appellate attorneys are dedicated to their professional mission.  They adhere to high standards of excellence, efficiency, and client-oriented service.  Their cumulative experience encompasses hundreds of cases and spans all areas of our firm's wide-ranging litigation fields.

STATE-OF-THE-ART

Our appellate attorneys employ state-of-the-art word-processing, computer-assisted legal research programs, and in-house publishing facilities to enhance the substantial productivity, quality control, and cost efficiencies that they provide to clients.

INVOLVED

To maintain their skills and to enhance the quality of appellate practice and the relationship between the appellate courts and appellate practitioners, our appellate attorneys participate in beneficial professional associations, such as:

Pennsylvania Bar Association's Post-Trial and Appellate Practice Committee (founding co-chair and members)

DRI's Appellate Advocacy Committee (leadership, case reporter and seminar roles)

ABA's Council of Appellate Lawyers (leadership and case reporter roles)

Appellate Practice Committees of the ABA's Tort Trial and Insurance and Litigation Sections (case reporter)

INSTRUCTIVE

Our appellate attorneys also provide instructive seminars and other presentations to enhance clients' understandings of the complexities and intricacies of post-trial and appellate practice.

To refer a case or to obtain further information about the services of our firm's Post-Trial and Appellate Advocacy Practice Group, please contact: