For members of the Ohio bar
The appeal,
handled.
One flat fee. Specialist reviewed. Every citation verified.
You won the trial, or you didn't. Either way, the appeal is a different craft. Appellate Ohio delivers a filing-ready merit brief for a flat fee, reviewed line by line by an attorney certified as a specialist in appellate law by the Ohio State Bar Association.
Why trial lawyers send us their appeals
Price certainty
One flat fee for the merit brief, quoted before you commit. No hourly meter running while the record gets read twice. Expenses pass through at cost.
Specialist review
Fewer than one percent of Ohio lawyers are certified appellate law specialists. One of them reads, edits, and approves every brief that leaves this shop.
Verified authority
Modern research tools are fast; they are also famous for inventing cases. Our rule: no authority is cited unless a lawyer has opened the official opinion and read it. You get the verification report to prove it.
Local rule compliance
Font, length, appendix, citation format, oral argument statements: each of Ohio's twelve districts does it differently. Your brief arrives conformed to the district that will read it.
Built on data
Research starts from a proprietary full-text database of Ohio appellate decisions, so issue selection is grounded in how your district has actually ruled.
Your client stays yours
Work with us as disclosed consulting counsel behind your signature, or bring us in as co-counsel. The client relationship, and the credit, stay with you.
The process, docketed
Send the caption
Judgment entry, deadline, and a short summary. Conflicts checked and a firm quote within one business day.
We master the record
Transcript ordered if needed, record reviewed, and you receive an issue selection memo identifying the strongest assignments of error and the standard of review for each.
We draft; the specialist reviews
Research, drafting, specialist edit, and citation verification against the official opinions.
You file a finished brief
Conformed to the district's local rules, delivered with the verification report, ready for your signature or ours.
Every district. One standard.
Local rules differ on everything from brief length to appendix format. Each filing is conformed to the district that will read it.
— and the Supreme Court of Ohio, for jurisdictional memoranda, merit briefs, and amicus work.
Beyond the brief
Oral argument prep
Moot panels, bench memos, and argument outlines built from the briefing, or let our specialist take the podium as co-counsel.
Appellate analytics
District-by-district reversal patterns, panel history, and issue-level outcomes from our proprietary database of Ohio appellate decisions, delivered as a memo you can act on.
Hourly consulting
Preservation audits during trial, post-trial motion strategy, jurisdictional memoranda, and anything else appellate, billed hourly.
The clock is running — App.R. 4 allows 30 days from the judgment entry
Send the caption today.
A firm quote within one business day.