Why Trial Lawyers Aren’t the Right Choice to Manage Appeals
It’s not easy to accept a judgment when you lose a case. Sometimes there are valid reasons to want to appeal the decision. When you are thinking about appealing a ruling, consider whom you will have representing you. Should you stick with your trial lawyer, or is it better to get an appellate lawyer to […]
How To Win a Criminal Appeal: 9 Steps That Can Strengthen Your Case
Winning a criminal appeal requires more than hope—it takes strategy, precision, and a clear understanding of the legal process. Discover the 7 essential steps to improve your chances of success.
What Is Appellate Law? (And What Is The Role Of An Appellate Lawyer)
The call comes to you at an odd hour. A loved one is in a county jail, their voice is heavy, and they are asking an urgent question: “How long can they hold me like this? What Is Habeas Corpus? You start asking Google different questions, and two words appear repeatedly in all your searches: […]
How Has COVID-19 Affected Law Firms
The world has been reshaped by the 2019 coronavirus, and numerous industries will undergo a transformation. Once the dust settles down, the legal landscape is going to look extremely different. How Has COVID-19 Affected the Legal System At Large Coronavirus’s influence on the practice of law is felt the most inside the courtroom. There are […]
Seven Points to Consider When Selecting an Attorney
Finding an appeals attorney can be a complicated task and would require you to consider a plethora of factors before making a decision. An attorney is someone who represents you in the court of law, which is why it is imperative to make an informed decision, especially when it comes down to an appeal attorney. […]
6 Tips for Appellate Advocacy Especially If you’re Appellant’s Counsel
The appeal is the means by which the modification of a resolution or sentence is requested by the higher judicial organization that issued it. An appeal filed against a sentence of a Criminal Court, for it to be reviewed by the Provincial Court. The appellate attorneys use the term appeal, to refer to those appeals […]
Why Hire a Criminal Appellate Attorney?
The Importance of Appellate Attorneys The word “attorney” means many different things to many different people. Attorney traditionally translate as someone who is well versed in the law. In decades past this was probably a fair translation. In today’s world this translation is about as useful as knowing that a teacher is someone who helps […]
Does Sex Sell?
Ask anyone in the marketing industry whether sex sells and the answer is almost always a resounding yes. Ask someone in law enforcement, however, and the answer quickly becomes the opposite. In the United States there is an outright prohibition on the sale or solicitation of sex. As with all outright prohibitions, there is one […]
Lisa Mearkle: A Question of Self Defense or Criminal Homicide
In February a Hummelstown Police Officer named Lisa Mearkle attempted to pull over David Kassick. Mearkle noticed that the car Kassick drove had an expired inspection and emissions sticker. Kassick was not interested in pulling over that day. He sped away, leaving Mearkle with little choice but to chase after him. Mearkle caught up to […]
The War on Drugs: Is It Enemy #1?
When President Nixon declared drug abuse as Americas public enemy number one in 1971, he wasn’t kidding. Could his declaration been an unintentional foreshadowing of the future? Suddenly many federal agencies were created to try to stop the influx of drugs into the United States, and made not only their use, but possession, a serious […]