Legal Services For Fellow Attorneys

Your practice is busy. Your clients are demanding. You are preparing exhibits, meeting with witnesses, and drafting your direct and cross examinations. And then you get hit with a directive from the judge to brief a motion argument.

This is where we enter the picture. The busiest trial attorneys do not necessarily have the time to pore over every case relating to a single issue, to treat a discovery motion like an appellate brief, or to dig into the procedural and substantive rules at a time when they need to get the human beings involved in a case ready for trial.

Fellow members of the bar turn to Attorney Powers because this is where he goes to bat. Consider Kevin your designated hitter--available to take the pressure of a nuanced argument off of your shoulders and onto his own. While Kevin handles the batting duties, you are free to limber up for a run around the bases. The combination may well add up to a home run for your client.

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Motions.

One motion or twenty. An important part of our practice consists of writing well-researched trial, pre-trial, and arbitration motion arguments that feel, to a deciding judge, like a well-written appellate brief. Attorney Powers has seen, time and again, that the persuasive force of a memorandum that places a clear synthesis of the law and a crisp, direct line of reasoning before the judge will make that judge's work in deciding an issue much easier. Kevin draws upon the lessons that he learned as an Appeals Court law clerk and through years of trial and appellate practice to give co-counsel an argument that simplifies not only the job of co-counsel, but also the task weighing on the judge.

Appellate briefs.

It is never ideal for a seasoned trial attorney to be faced with a client who, dissatisfied with a result at trial, needs to appeal.  It is, likewise, never ideal for a seasoned trial attorney, flush with success from an ideal trial decision, to be faced with an appeal filed by opposing counsel.  The appeal, whether before a single justice or a full panel, is our forte.  We embrace the challenge of culling a dense transcript for the arguments that can convince a reviewing appellate court to reverse an undesirable trial court decision, or that can persuade the same appellate court to affirm a hard-won trial court win.
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Research.

Some trial attorneys enjoy the hands-on approach of assembling their own arguments, but have such thriving trial practices that it can be challenging to set aside the time to undertake an expedition to the law library and dig up the cases, the quotations, and the string cites that make judges agree with an argument. Attorney Powers enjoys working with attorneys who want to do their own writing but need an arsenal of clear, thoroughly-vetted research with which to arm their reasoning.

Oral argument.

Not a few trial lawyers who are passionate about presenting the evidence of a case to juries and judges would gladly spend more time developing the factual side of a case and less time disputing the application of a rule or reported case to a procedural skirmish.  Kevin is at home with the statutes, the rules, and the cases. Drawing fine-line distinctions between the cases that favor opposing counsel's argument and those that favor our co-counsel's position in the line of fire before trial judges, arbitrators, and appeals courts is an undertaking that we enjoy and excel at. Indeed, when it comes time to take questions from an appellate panel, we are as comfortable at oral argument as we are at writing a brief.

Moot court exercises.

You may be preparing for your first appellate oral argument ever, or you may be preparing for your first appellate oral argument in ten years.  Nothing readies an attorney for the gauntlet of arguing before an appellate court quite so much as an aggressive moot argument and a thorough debriefing.  You should walk out of a good moot court session with a sense that plenty of preparation lies ahead of game day, but you should walk out of the real oral argument feeling well-prepared by the moot court exercise.  Kevin enjoys providing insightful moot court exercises, potentially featuring panels of several experienced appellate attorneys or several retired appellate jurists.

Deadlines.

We understand deadlines. We know and appreciate the pressure that attorneys feel when a motion to continue is denied, when an appellate motion to expand time for filing is denied, and when a judge or arbitrator insists on hearing argument several days, or several weeks, earlier than co-counsel might have liked. Attorney Powers recognizes your challenging deadline; your calendar due date is the ticking clock that will invigorate Kevin's work on your behalf and drive him to produce the result you need at or before the time you need it most.

We also understand that some matters come to us after a deadline has been missed because co-counsel is in the midst of overwhelming pressures from multiple clients, multiple trials, and the innumerable demands that judges suddenly and unexpectedly spring upon busy attorneys. Kevin is comfortable wielding the rules of procedure to put together the best argument in favor of giving co-counsel a second chance to file, to oppose, or to otherwise respond.

Projects short and long.

Every co-counsel's needs vary. No two cases demand the exact same force of legal arms. Attorney Powers can and does assist with discrete, individual arguments, with an extended series of motions, and with cases from intake to disposition. We can come on-board at short notice, stay for as long as the matter warrants, see you back to your own solo voyage, or remain in a consulting role until the case reaches its end. And if you are a trial attorney whose case now calls for an appeal, we stand ready to take over the file and shepherd it through brief and panel argument as you may prefer.
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Budgets.

Kevin knows that budgets, like clients and cases, come in all shapes and sizes. Attorney Powers will work with you to develop efficient, cost-effective solutions that simultaneously enable you to enhance the representation that you provide to your client while providing clear value in a budget-conscious manner.