Massachusetts Appeals Practice Areas
Appellate practice spans many legal issues. However, with appellate litigation, the concentration is on appellate advocacy rather than trial advocacy. Attorney Driscoll's practice focuses upon the broad area of civil appeals brought from cases throughout Massachusetts. In short, civil appeals are those that are not resulting from trials for criminal convictions.
Attorney Driscoll represents clients with appeals of temporary orders (interlocutory appeals) and appeals from final orders. On appeal from final orders, Attorney Driscoll represents clients in single justice matters, as well as before a panel or full sitting of the court. Some examples of civil appeal topics include:
♦ Probate Appeals:
- Will disputes, trust disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, guardianships, conservatorships, and more.
♦ Parenting and Divorce Appeals:
- Legal and physical custody, relocation of children, child support, alimony (spousal support), division of assets and debts, health insurance and uninsured costs, college expenses, interference with parental rights, grandparent rights, contested prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements, and more.
♦ Adoption Appeals:
- Surrogacy parent, birth parent consent, wrongful adoption, confidentiality of adoption records, inheritance, insurance coverage, sibling visitation, or post-adoption contact between child and birth parents (i.e., "open adoptions"), and more.
♦ Abuse Prevention Appeals
- Restraining Orders, Harassment Orders, and more.
♦ Constitution and Government Appeals
- First Amendment, Second Amendment, civil rights, discrimination, education, privacy rights, consumer protection, municipal appeals, police conduct, and more.
♦ Business and Employment Appeals
- Commercial disputes, contract disputes, trade secrets, consumer protection and 93A claims, non-compete contracts, interference with business business relationships, discrimination, sexual harassment, workplace injuries, employee benefits, and more.
♦ Land and Housing Appeals
- Land use, contract disputes, lead poisoning, eminent domain issues, landlord and tenant disputes, commercial and residential real estate disputes, environmental violations and disputes, and more.
♦ Personal Injury and Insurance Appeals
- Injury caused to animals or by animals, alcoholic beverages, assault & battery, automobiles, premises liability, wrongful death, wrongful birth, wrongful life, defective products liability, negligence, and more.
♦ Professional Malpractice Appeals
- Medical, Dental, Legal, Accountant, and more.
♦ Miscellaneous "Bad Acts" Appeals
- Assault, battery, conversion, emotional distress, false imprisonment by restraint on liberty, fraud, fraudulent conveyance, defamation, property damage, malicious prosecution, negligence, and more.