The Kon Firm
Trial & Appellate Counsel · Miami
Practice 07 · Appeals

Appeals

Appellate advocacy, state and federal. A colder record, a harder audience, one shot at persuading a panel that has read everything and owes you nothing — and, where the verdict has not landed yet, the record built for that shot while there is still time.

SCOPE

What the firm handles

COUNSEL

Working with trial counsel

Because the firm tries cases as well as appeals them, the brief is grounded in how the error actually happened at trial — not a law-review reconstruction of it. Referring counsel stay involved to the degree they want: some hand the case off entirely, others co-author strategy and keep the client relationship front-and-center. Either way, the client remains the referring lawyer's client, and fee arrangements are written, transparent, and compliant with the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.

RECORD

Notable appellate victories

Each stated in the court’s own words, with its citation, so any of these can be pulled and read.

Supreme Court of the United States

Florida district courts of appeal

A selection, not the full docket, from matters handled before this firm was founded. Every case turns on its own facts; no result predicts another.

CLOCK

Appellate deadline calculator

Set the date the order was rendered. The dates that follow are the ones that matter, each with the rule that sets it. Weekends and Florida legal holidays are rolled forward.

Read this before you use it. This calculator is not legal advice and using it does not create an attorney–client relationship. It applies a few general rules to a date; it knows nothing about your case. It can be wrong. A real deadline can turn on whether the order is final, whether a motion was authorized and timely, whether the court has extended or shortened a time, or whether a different rule governs altogether — none of which this can see. Do not rely on any date it produces. Check every one against the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure and the court’s own docket, and if a deadline matters, speak to a lawyer.

Enter a date to see the schedule.

Nothing typed here is sent anywhere. The whole calculation happens inside your own browser, so no detail of your matter reaches this firm or anyone else — which also means the firm has no record of it and no deadline of yours is being watched by anyone here.

Appellate deadlines are short.

Thirty days from rendition disappears quickly. Send the order and the record; the merits read comes back inside the week.