By limiting our areas of practice, our clients receive a level of quality and expertise often lacking in firms with a more general practice. We help trial counsel make more focused, more persuasive presentations, heading off potential appeals. Trial counsel's selection and presentation of facts and objections frequently determines the outcome of appeals. To preserve the record, trial lawyers strategize with us. We focus on the legal issues from a fresh perspective, the same way reviewing courts examine cases.
Special rules apply to appeals.
We are familiar with the procedures and time limits which apply in the higher courts. Thorough evaluation before initiating an appeal can avoid costly mistakes. While we aggressively represent our clients, we also carefully evaluate settlement possibilities. All our attorneys have received alternative dispute resolution training. Wendy Cole Lascher is an experienced arbitrator, mediator and pro-tem judge who regularly volunteers as a settlement officer for the Second District Court of Appeal and as a settlement mediator for the Ventura Superior Court.