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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.
Standard of review — Plain error, if you did not preserve it.
The most expensive words in appellate practice are “not preserved below.” We embed with trial teams to make the objections that feel unnecessary in the moment and decisive on review.
This is unglamorous work. It is also the difference between an appeal and a regret.
On the record — trial preservation
- No. 21-0904 7th Cir.
Remanded for findings the district court declined to make on the record as it stood.
Remanded 2022
Send us the record
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.