Services offered:

Consultation and association with trial counsel and other appellate counsel in appellate litigation, including jurisdictional issues, procedural matters, writing and editing of briefs, legal research, preparation of written and oral arguments, moot court.  The level and nature of assistance provided is determined with referring counsel in each case. Reasonable fees charged.

About Jefferson Lankford:

   *30 years at the bar (admitted in Arizona , the United States Supreme Court and the Federal, District of Columbia, Sixth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal).

   *Retired Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals.  Participated in thousands of appeals and authored more than 1,500 appellate decisions. 

   *Former Chair of Appellate Practice Department of a major Phoenix Arizona law firm.

   *Highly rated lecturer to lawyers and judges on legal writing and appellate practice.

   *Author of two books on legal subjects and editor of two others, including a multi-volume treatise on appellate practice.  

   *Graduate of University of Virginia School of Law (JD 1978, LLM in the Judicial Process 1992).

   *Recipient of Member of Year Award of Maricopa County Bar Association.

References available.

Areas of Experience:  Administrative law, arbitration, banking, bankruptcy, civil rights, communications law, constitutional law, construction law, contracts, corporations and partnerships, creditor and debtor relations, criminal law, criminal procedure,  discovery disputes, education law, employment discrimination, employment law, ethics (lawyers and judges), family law, health care law, insurance, jurisdictional and other procedural issues, real estate, taxation (income, property and sales), secured transactions, torts, trusts and estates, water law, zoning

Contact Jefferson Lankford:  jeffersonlankford@gmail.com