Appellate and Legal Issues
The Appellate and Legal Issues Practice Group specializes in appellate advocacy, complex legal issues, and scientific briefs. The group has expertise in all phases of litigation, from summary judgment to mandamus proceedings and appeals across all practice areas. The Appellate Group serves clients in both the federal and state appellate courts. They have appealed cases across a wide range of legal fields, including business torts, defamation, arbitration, class actions, securities, banking, personal injury, gas and oil, employment, insurance, family law and media.
Articles and publications
- Review of Arbitration Awards After Hall Street Associates v. Mattel
- The Supreme Court of Texas and the Emancipation Cases
- Slaves, Reconstruction, and the Supreme Court of Texas
- Should We Abandon the Consideration Requirement?
- Crafting a Court's Charge From the Defense Perspective
- Lost Secret Revealed: The Seven ABCs of Successful Appellate Advocacy
- Improper Jury Argument: To Object or Not to Object?
- Crown Life Ins. Co. v. Casteel: Return of the Prodigal Son
- Superseding the "Other Judgment"
- Working Together: Some Practical Advice for Lawyers and Forensic Economists
- Tape Recording of Conversations: Ethics, Legality, and Admissibility
- Caught in a Crossfire
- Religious Freedom Texas Style
- Tunnel Vision: Appellate Review of a Summary Judgment Order Stating a Specific Ground as the Basis for the Judgment
- Appellate Review of a Jury's Finding of "Zero Damages"
Events
News
- Appellate Specialist Rob Gilbreath Helps Preserve Significant Win at Texas Supreme Court
- Fourteen Lawyers from HPTY Selected for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012
- Florida Supreme Court Holds Retroactive Application of Medical Criteria Unconstitutional
- 1st District Court of Appeals of Texas Finds Medical Criteria Bill Unconstitutional When Retroactively Applied
- HPTY Steps In to Secure Last Minute Stay From Appellate Court
- Ed Slaughter and Lauren Wood Win Dismissal Mesothelioma Case in Arizona
- David Marshall and Eric Ludwig Prevail Before the Kentucky Supreme Court
- Rob Gilbreath Argued in Supreme Court of Texas on Criminal Contempt Finding
- Kim Jackson to Author Book Chapter on Verdicts, Judgments and Post-Trial Motions
- Eleventh Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction for HPTY Client in Lanham Act False Advertising Case
- Georgia Supreme Court Affirms Summary Judgment in Legal Malpractice Case
- Rob Gilbreath Secures Texas Supreme Court Victory for Merrill Lynch
- HPTY Secures Supreme Court Victory in Arizona
- Rob Gilbreath Featured in Texas Lawyer Article
- Rob Gilbreath Secures Victory in Texas Supreme Court for D.R. Horton
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Attorneys
- Bean, Brenton S.
- Bedinger, III, Frank C.
- Bowlby, Stephanie L.
- Davis (Fletcher), Evelyn
- Gilbreath, Robert
- Gowin, Julia
- Gregory, Jason P.
- Groch, Jason
- Jackson, Kim M.
- Keith, C. Shane
- Lazzaroni, Teresa E.
- Ludwig, Eric A.
- Sapp, Matthew
- Schirm, Barry R.
- Slaughter, Edward M.
- Sprinkle, Brian W.
- Whitlock, Kathryn S.
- Wood, Lauren E.