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…
A petition for writ of certiorari to the Utah Supreme Court is one of the most demanding documents in Utah appellate practice — not because the legal analysis is necessarily more complex than a Court of Appeals brief, but because…
If you are involved in a Utah family law appeal — or deciding whether to bring one — at some point you will encounter the raw material of appellate law: the published opinions of the Utah Court of Appeals and…
If you’ve lost a court case — or won one that’s now being challenged — you may be asking yourself whether you need an appellate attorney and, more fundamentally, what an appellate attorney actually does. The answer matters, because appellate…
Lotus Appellate Law handles appeals throughout Utah, serving clients in all counties and courts across the state including: