Practice Details

Appellate Practice

Our Firm’s appellate practice is necessarily extensive because it embraces all the areas of litigation in which we engage, namely, commercial disputes and business torts, insurance defense, insurance coverage, environmental, fidelity and surety, product liability and toxic tort, malpractice, errors and omissions, directors and officers, construction, private and public contract disputes, workers’ compensation, labor and employment, trade regulation, antitrust, intellectual property, franchise, real estate, banking, pension, probate, and white-collar criminal defense.

Our Firm has extensive appellate experience from both sides of the bench and is available to counsel clients with respect to all aspects of appellate advocacy. Our attorneys regularly serve as primary counsel before the federal and state appellate courts in a wide variety of matters. We work closely with clients to guide them through each phase of appellate litigation, including preparing and responding to post-verdict motions, evaluating prospects for appeal, reviewing trial transcripts or agency records for appellate issues, researching and analyzing substantive case law, filing motions for leave to appeal, drafting appellate briefs, presenting oral argument, preparing post-argument motions, and filing petitions for certification.

We are particularly well suited to address issues involving questions of law both novel and creative, given the broad experience of our appellate practitioners.  Former Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Clifford, who served on the Court for more than two decades, and former Dean of Seton Hall School of Law Ronald J. Riccio, are available to supervise and assist in the preparation of every appellate brief that goes out of this office, as are four attorneys who clerked in the Supreme Court and sixteen who clerked in the Appellate Division.