Sentences with phrase «appellate counsel in cases»

Acted as appellate counsel in cases where the firm was not trial counsel, including matters involving complex commercial litigation and novel issues of law.

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Randall G. Bennett is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Tennessee School Boards Association where he provides general legal opinions to local boards of education, superintendents and TSBA staff on school governanace issues, organizes and presents at seminars and training events, prepares and files amicus briefs in appellate cases affecting public schools, monitors current litigation and changes in state and federal law, and supervises the Association's Policy Department, A former school board member and police officer, Mr. Bennett obtained his law degree from Nashville School of Law.

Whether you are seeking zealous representation in a high - stakes business dispute, catastrophic injury or death case, a top notch defense in a nationwide class action, appellate counsel to handle the appeal of a runaway jury verdict, or coordinating counsel for cases pending around the country, we can help.

Joel served as lead counsel in many landmark cases in both trial and appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and participated in shaping several important pieces of federal legislation enforced by the FDA.

She has been trial counsel for multiple matters tried to a favorable jury verdict, as well as appellate counsel for cases in which she has both written the appellate briefs and argued the appeals in state and federal courts.

Warnken, LLC served as appellate counsel in this Baltimore City case.

Combined they have tried hundreds of cases serving as litigation and appellate counsel in federal district courts, before the International Trade Commission, (ITC) and before various U.S. Courts of Appeal.

Represented citizens group in election redistricting case in Pennsylvania, by stepping in as appellate counsel obtaining reversal of unfavorable lower court judgment, on appeal to Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.

Or, one will see cases in which the judge refers to a long list of cases — some appellate, some co-ordinate, all of which deal with the point in issue — and concludes with the line that since neither counsel cited the binding authorities, let alone any, nobody gets costs.

In recent years, we have acted successfully for clients in leading cases related to land use and development as appellate counsel for appeals from the Ontario Municipal BoarIn recent years, we have acted successfully for clients in leading cases related to land use and development as appellate counsel for appeals from the Ontario Municipal Boarin leading cases related to land use and development as appellate counsel for appeals from the Ontario Municipal Board.

Roy is an experienced trial lawyer and has tried cases throughout Texas state and federal courts, courts of neighboring states, and has served as appellate counsel in the Texas Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit.

We are frequently brought in shortly before trial to serve as lead trial counsel, co-trial counsel or appellate counsel to make sure that the case is properly tried and that all appellate issues are properly preserved.

He has been lead counsel on cases in more than 30 Ohio counties, appellate courts and the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Appellate counsel, cognizant that the New York Court of Appeals rejects numerous cases that were wrongly decided — only accepting those raising important, novel issues — recognizes that practicing before the Court requires a fundamentally different strategy than that used in the intermediate appellate court.

Since 1938, when Sutherland's founding partner Judge Elbert P Tuttle argued in the US Supreme Court to establish a Sixth Amendment right to counsel in criminal cases (Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 US 458), our lawyers have been lead appellate counsel both in cases we have tried and in cases brought to us by other counsel after trial.

He is lead trial and appellate counsel in high - profile cases.

Lead trial and lead appellate counsel in representation of national drug - store chain lessee in breach of high value commercial lease case resulting in favorable judgment.

The appellate judge in this case imparted strong advice to defence counsel at the end of the judgement — advice that can be applied equally to the entire legal bar, regardless of the area of practice.

He also regularly serves as appellate counsel on trial teams in high - exposure cases.

Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.

We include the first openly lesbian judge in the nation; the first openly gay and lesbian appellate judges in California history; the founder of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; founders and former executive directors of Equal Rights Advocates and the East Bay Children's Law Offices; a former chief attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, as well as several other former public defenders; a former California labor commissioner; a former chief deputy attorney general; and a former chief deputy city attorney and the lead counsel who successfully argued the historic gay marriage case that changed lives in our community forever.

Although at the time this case was heard, the majority of provincial and territorial appellate courts held that courts had jurisdiction to prevent defence counsel from withdrawing due to non-payment in fees, there was some division in the case law and differing approaches had been taken in the codes of conduct established by provincial law societies.

Counsel seem to have supposed, if effect be given to the repealing act in question, that the whole appellate power of the court, in cases of habeas corpus, is denied.

It has almost all of the characteristics of the adversarial litigation system — counsel present on both sides, a process focused mainly on resolving the substantive issues according to the statutory law and appellate decisions, and a third party neutral whose main experience has been in deciding adversarial cases in an imposed process.