Appellate work is different from other types of legal work that attorneys do. Appellate courts review the decisions by trial courts for error, to make sure that the trial was fair and that the trial judge applied the law correctly.

We represented a parent defending against a grandparent rights claim. At trial, our position was that the grandparent rights statute must be followed to the letter, and that the circumstances did not support a grandparent rights order.

Kathleen Egan just won an appeal restoring our client’s parental rights. Her work on the appeal reversed a trial court’s decision allowing an adoption to proceed without our client’s consent.