Areas of Practice

• General Commercial Litigation
• White Collar Defense and SEC Enforcement
• Employment Litigation and Counseling
• Appellate Litigation
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Arbitration and Mediation

Appellate Litigation

Our Commitment. Apart from appeals arising from cases that we have handled in the trial courts, our clients and referring attorneys frequently engage us to litigate appeals in lawsuits that other counsel have lost or won at trial.

Our Team. Our attorneys have substantial appellate experience in the Supreme Court of the United States; the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits; the appellate courts of Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, and Minnesota; and the appellate divisions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and the Massachusetts Department of Employment and Training. Members of our appellate team have served as law clerks to judges of the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Sixth Circuits, the United States District Court of Massachusetts, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Southern District of New York, and the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Our Work. Our attorneys have submitted briefs to the United States Supreme Court in a groundbreaking age discrimination case, a multi-state product liability insurance coverage dispute, a case determining whether a national service club was a "public accommodation" and was therefore required to offer enrollment to women, and "CERCLA" litigation concerning corporate responsibilities for environmental cleanup costs. Other subjects of our appellate representation have included a major intellectual property dispute, handicap and age discrimination cases, a will contest, a franchise dispute, wrongful termination litigation, defamation cases, debtor/creditor litigation, a land taking case, damages caused by a Boston Harbor oil spill, a trial court's award of sanctions and attorney's fees, a property boundary dispute, a litigant's entitlement to a new trial, a national origin discrimination claim, and a broker-dealer firm's liability for its agent's fraudulent investment counseling.