At Lotus Appellate Law, we get calls from people who represented themselves pro se at the trial level in their own divorce or custody case, things went badly, and now they are hoping an appellate law firm can fix it….
One of the most difficult calls at Lotus Appellate Law comes from someone who represented themselves pro se in district court, made serious mistakes, and now wants to know if appellate counsel can fix it on appeal. The answer is…
At Lotus Appellate Law, we have encountered pro se clients who come in with motions they have drafted using ChatGPT. They are proud of them. The language sounded professional. It cited cases. It made arguments that sounded legal. So they…
Experienced appellate attorneys began noticing it a few months ago. Pro se motions that had a particular structure. A certain kind of verbosity. Cases cited in ways that no human lawyer would cite them. The language was smooth, but something…
At Lotus Appellate Law, some of the hardest conversations happen with people who have represented themselves and filed a motion that violated a procedural rule. They call hopeful that it is fixable. That maybe the judge will excuse the defect….
When you lose at trial, the impulse to represent yourself on appeal makes sense. You know your case. You know what went wrong. Hiring appellate counsel costs money. But something happens in a Utah courtroom when a pro se motion…
Lotus Appellate Law handles appeals throughout Utah, serving clients in all counties and courts across the state including: