Litigation: Appellate

The Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP (CALG) is a leading appellate specialty boutique, with more than two-dozen award-winning appellate attorneys, former Supreme Court and appellate clerks, and retired appellate jurists. The firm has no associates, and every lawyer has more than a decade of experience taking on high-stakes appellate matters for large corporations, small businesses, and individuals. The firm practices nationwide, with special expertise in California and the Ninth Circuit.

Recently, the firm:

• prevailed on behalf of a Fortune 500 company in a $183 million Ninth Circuit appeal and defended that victory in the U.S. Supreme Court;
• won a precedent-setting decision for a large national insurance company in the California Supreme Court concerning insurers' responsibility to cover COVID-related business closures, a ruling potentially worth billions;
• obtained vacatur of a $36.5 million jury verdict against a mechanical engineering corporation sued in a wrongful death action;
• and successfully defended on appeal an intellectual property judgment in favor of one of the world’s leading technology firms.

The firm is currently representing a European conglomerate in a contract and tort appeal with nearly $200 million at stake, a technology firm litigating a claim for founders' shares, a divorce appeal with nearly $1 billion in contention, and many more. The firm also often frequently embeds its appellate, writing, and litigation strategy experts on trial teams.