Effective appellate litigation requires sophisticated legal analysis, skillful writing, oral advocacy, and an understanding of civil and criminal trial practice. Zuckerman Spaeder has assembled a team of appellate litigators with comprehensive experience and skills honed in federal and state courts throughout the country, including the highest courts of several states, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
We brief and argue important appellate cases in areas such as federal and state constitutional law, criminal law, federal administrative practice (including food and drug, housing, agriculture, automobile safety, nuclear power, environmental law), Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act, antitrust, and voting rights. When appropriate, we also solicit support from the federal and state governments and influential private organizations in briefs.
Our appellate lawyers also have extensive civil and criminal trial backgrounds. Many have spent years trying and overseeing litigation in
the public sector, at the trial and appellate levels, for the Civil Division in the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Justice Department's Tobacco Litigation team, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, and others. In addition, one team member spent more than a decade arguing civil cases for a public interest law firm.