It’s now been nearly two years since leaving the Birmingham law firm where I was chair of the appellate practice group to undertake a career as a freelance appellate lawyer assisting solo practitioners and lawyers in small firms with their appeals and appellate brief writing. That’s been enough time for a number of those appeals to have been decided by the appellate courts and I’m happy to say that there have been as many appeals by appellants won as lost, which I consider a substantial success. For example, as noted in this post, recent data from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals showed that appellants were successful only 8% of the time. Although, the Alabama Supreme Court, the other appellate court in which most of…