Notwithstanding the foregoing, counsel respectfully submits that it may be appropriate for the court to consider whether relief of some nature might potentially be warranted. The judgment below cannot stand. We win the ones that matter.
Standing
Federal and state, since 2009
Against a national average near 9%
Plus four state courts of last resort
Doing only this
What we are actually hired to do.
All practice areasCommercial appeals
We are brought in after the verdict, usually by the lawyers who tried it. Contract, fiduciary duty, and valuation disputes where the record is long and the issue is narrow.
- $1.2B fiduciary judgment vacated
- Reversal of a class certification order
Trial preservation
Appeals are won at trial, in the objections nobody wanted to make. We sit second chair and build the record you will need eighteen months from now.
- Embedded counsel, 9-week AAA arbitration
Administrative review
Agency action, rulemaking challenges, and the arbitrary-and-capricious standard as it is actually applied.
- Vacatur of a final rule on notice grounds
Class actions
Certification, decertification, and the interlocutory appeal that decides the case before it is tried.
- Rule 23(f) petition granted and reversed
Amicus practice
We write for trade associations and academic coalitions when a case will set the rule for everyone downstream.
- 14 merits-stage briefs since 2019
The record, not the rhetoric.
All results- No. 24-11889th Cir.Commercial appealsReversed2024
Held — District court exceeded its remedial authority; the injunction swept beyond the parties before it.
- No. 23-0947Del. Ch.Commercial appealsVacated2024
Held — Valuation record could not support the fiduciary award; remand ordered on the damages question only.
- No. 23-06122d Cir.Class actionsReversed2023
Held — Predominance was not established. Certification order reversed on Rule 23(f) interlocutory review.
- No. 22-1455D.C. Cir.Administrative reviewVacated2023
Held — Final rule vacated. The agency never gave notice of the standard it ultimately adopted.
- No. 22-03385th Cir.Commercial appealsAffirmed2022
Held — Defense judgment affirmed in full; cross-appeal on fees dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Matters listed are representative and reported only where the record is public.
Four people. No associates you have never met.
All counsel
Marguerite Oyelaran
Argued 41 appeals. Reads the record twice before she forms a view.
Tobias Renner
Sits second chair so the objection exists eighteen months later.
Imani Belrose
Former agency counsel. Knows what the rulemaking file will not say.
Harlan Vosk
Writes the Rule 23(f) petition that gets granted.
Four commitments, in writing.
These are in the engagement letter, not just on the website. Hold us to them.
- 01
We read everything first
Before we take a view, we read the whole record — every transcript, every exhibit, every order. Most appellate pitches happen before anyone has done this. Ours happens after.
- 02
We tell you if you should not appeal
Roughly a third of the matters brought to us should not be appealed, and we say so in writing. A firm that never declines is selling hours, not judgment.
- 03
One issue, argued properly
Courts reverse on one thing. We find the issue that can carry the judgment and put the rest in a footnote — or nowhere. A brief that raises nine issues concedes it has none.
- 04
The person who wrote it argues it
No handoffs. The lawyer who built the argument stands up at the lectern and answers for it. That accountability changes how the brief gets written in the first place.
If the judgment is wrong, it is worth one conversation.
We read the opinion and the operative briefs before the first call, at no charge. You will get a straight answer about whether an appeal is worth funding.