About

Focus on appellate litigation

Joshua Gordon’s practice is devoted to assisting businesses, individuals, law firms, and institutional attorneys who find themselves litigating on the appellate level. Attorney Gordon has handled 265 federal and state appeals. Of those, 98 have resulted in full published opinions, some have been decided by summary decree, and others have settled when private resolutions were appropriate.

Because appellate litigation is a niche, Attorney Gordon’s practice spans a wide variety of legal practice areas, including commercial disputes, employment, land use, condominiums, probate, government agency, criminal, and personal injury.

He has handled cases in family law including pensions, pre-nuptials, cross-state jurisdiction, adoption, child welfare, parenting, and guardianships. He has argued municipal, election, zoning, construction, and building appeals from several perspectives. Attorney Gordon has been involved in commercial and employment cases, including non-competes, trade secrets, finance, securities, banking, and consumer protection. He has several times vindicated the rights of people wrongly convicted, including in the United States Supreme Court.

Many trial attorneys are unfamiliar with the specialized rules of an appellate forum, or cannot find the uninterrupted time required for detailed appellate research and writing. This is especially true if an appeal poses new or important constitutional or statutory questions, requires state-by-state comparison of law, or involves legislative history. Sometimes separate appellate counsel may improve a case because the appellate attorney was not involved with trial strategy decisions and is therefore not colored by them.

Attorney Gordon’s legal briefs are well researched, well documented, and well written. Having conducted 126 appellate oral arguments, his courtroom advocacy is professional and organized. He can seamlessly conduct an appellate case from notice of appeal through final decision, while ensuring trial counsel and other professionals maintain their existing client relationships.

Attorney Gordon is located near Concord, the state capital. He maintains subscriptions to major federal and state electronic research databases, and is close to New Hampshire’s only major law libraries and the New Hampshire archives.

If you or your client are involved in or considering an appeal, please call.