Fourton & Associates, PLLC handles both state and federal appeals in New York. Our appellate experience spans all areas of our practice, from copyrightand intellectual property to antitrust, arbitration, business torts, commercial contracts, financial products, insurance, media, securities, products liability and white-collar criminal defense.
Determining if your case can be or should be appealed.
Working as head or co-counsel for your appellate case.
Providing legal counsel to your trial lawyers.
Creating required appellate applications.
Perfecting an appeal as significant practice rules have changed.
Reviewing briefs and finalizing arguments on your behalf.
An appeal requires a fresh perspective on your case. The groundwork of an appeal is to identify and address critical issues that the trial court overlooked. Experienced appellate practitioners will notice that many long-standing appellate practice rules have changed.
Errors that can justify reversal on appeal include:
Incorrect instructions to jurors.
Using inadmissible evidence.
Misapplying governing law.
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At Fourton & Associates, we are proven leaders in New York’s appellate courts, where our advocates have litigated hundreds of civil and criminal appeals, in both state and federal appeal courts. Our New York appellate lawyers can make an important contribution to your litigation team through our effective appeals counsel and cost-conscious solutions. We are dedicated to providing the fresh perspective you need.
Learn more below about whether appealing is the right option for you at this time – whether you’ve won or lost.
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Because everything you’ve fought for—the years of discovery battles, motion practice, and careful witness preparation—can be lost if your opponent highlights even a single error that warrants reversal.
In preparing for and trying a case, parties and their counsel sometimes forget the power of appeal. It can completely reverse the case you fought so hard to win. With an effective appellate lawyer, your opponent can amplify mistakes that seemed trivial in the trial court yet may now upset the entire case.
You need an effective appellate lawyer on your side who knows how to:
Counter your opponent’s arguments
Explain why they don’t merit reversal
Persuade the appellate court that your victory is just
By pursuing an appeal with an appellate attorney, you can end up preserving the time, money, and effort you spent on winning the case in the first place. It’s the key to preserving trial success.
Because a persuasive appellate argument can correct the below decision and turn the case around in your favor for your benefit.
The trial court’s or jury’s decision is not the end of the road. In many cases, it’s incorrect or unfair, based on misleading jury instructions, improper evidence, or overlooked case law.
Even an indefensible decision will stand, however, unless the losing party appeals and retains an effective appellate advocate to explain, in plain English, how trial errors undermined the process and caused an unjust result.
The effective appellate advocate can regain tremendous leverage for the losing party by threatening to overturn the entire case. Simply initiating the appeal and filing a compelling brief can renew settlement discussions with the opposing party and lead to results thought impossible after an unfavorable result.
Why not just continue with trial counsel on appeal? Because appeals are typically different th
How are appellate cases different?
Appeals require experience in presenting cases to appellate judges, not juries.
Appeals require a firm that knows which issues to present and not to present, and how to present them effectively.
Appeals require a lawyer who can see the case’s larger picture.
The appellate specialist can provide the client with a fresh perspective on the case, clarifying the issues that matter to appellate courts.
Trial counsel who is not experienced with the appellate process can have difficulty objectively assessing an appeal’s merits. Where they’ve won at trial, these counsels tend to trivialize appellate issues the adversary has raised that, in fact, may be significant. Where they’ve lost at trial, these counsel contest too many trial rulings, disregarding that most rulings, even if incorrect, had little impact on the outcome and are unlikely to obtain appellate relief. Filing a scattershot brief that fails to focus on the one or two issues that usually impacted the result does not give the client the best chance of winning on appeal.
Permitting your trial counsel to continue representing you or your company on appeal—without input from experienced appellate counsel—can be a costly mistake. The ineffective appellate advocate can squander your one chance of overturning an unjust result.
And where you’ve won at trial, the ineffective advocate can forfeit your victory. Everything you or your company fought so hard to win can be lost if your opponent highlights just a single error that persuades the appellate court to reverse the case.
To discuss your case, give us a call at 800-688-6040 or request a consult online – email: fourton@fourtonlaw.com
