Since 1992, appellate law specialist Paul W. Flowers has successfully represented individual and business clients in over 200 appeals and original actions in state and federal courts in Ohio and California. He has appeared for oral argument in all Twelve Districts in Ohio, as well as on approximately twenty occasions before the Ohio Supreme Court. He is licensed in both Ohio and California, and has been certified as an Appellate Law Specialist by the Ohio State Bar Association. Mr. Flowers has received a number of awards throughout his career, including Ohio Lawyers' Weekly Top Ten Attorneys in 2001 and was a Public Justice Foundation Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalist in 2007. He has been recognized in Ohio Super Lawyers from 2007 to the present and is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest recognition possible in the legal industry for professionalism and ethics.
The Firm is able to draw from a deep reservoir of experience and a library of successful legal briefs to work quickly and efficiently for clients in each new case. The Firm offers research and writing services to other attorneys facing complex motion practice as well as procedural and evidentiary issues at the trial court level. It also keeps close watch over significant appeals pending before - and opinions released by - the Ohio Supreme Court and intermediate appellate courts. While working closely with co-counsel, the Firm regularly prepares and submits memoranda in opposition to summary judgment, requests for class certification, responses to Daubert challenges, trial briefs, and jury instructions in trial courts throughout the state and within the federal judicial system.
These legal services are typically provided on a standard hourly rate basis, although contingency fee arrangements are accepted in select instances. Estimates are furnished upon request.
