Pricing
Hourly billing punishes
thoroughness.
A flat fee aligns everyone: you can quote your client a real number, and we can read the record as many times as the case requires.
- Record and transcript review
- Issue selection memorandum with district-specific analytics
- Research, drafting, and unlimited internal revision
- Review and approval by an OSBA certified appellate law specialist
- Citation verification report: every authority read and logged
- Local rule conformance for the hearing district
Plus case expenses at cost (transcript, record preparation, filing fees). Unusually large records or consolidated appeals quoted individually before engagement. Reply briefs quoted at intake.
Add-on engagements
Oral argument preparation
Bench memo, argument outline, anticipated questions, and a moot session. Or retain the specialist to argue as co-counsel. Quoted flat per engagement.
Appellate analytics
A data memo from our proprietary Ohio appellate database: how your district and, where known, your panel has handled your issues, reversal patterns, and framing recommendations. Quoted flat per engagement.
Hourly services
Issue preservation audits, post-trial motions, memoranda in support of jurisdiction in the Supreme Court of Ohio, amicus briefs, and appellate strategy consults, billed hourly with an estimate up front.
The ethics of the fee
Our engagement letters are built to comply with the Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct. Depending on the structure you choose, the flat fee is either a disclosed cost of consulting counsel or a division of fees between co-counsel under Prof.Cond.R. 1.5(e), with client consent documented where required. Total fees to the client must always remain reasonable, and we will flag any structure that does not work on the numbers.
The clock is running — App.R. 4 allows 30 days from the judgment entry
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A firm quote within one business day.