Partners Mark D. Engel Stephen Schultz Robert A. Adelson Of Counsel Peter L. Koff Stephen M. Politi Michael Roitman

Massachusetts Appeals Lawyers The firm's appeals lawyers have handled well over a hundred appeals. The Boston law firm's attorneys have appeared in every state appellate court, the highest court in Connecticut and Rhode Island, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Tax Court and the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board. The firm's appellate practice is headed by partner Stephen Schultz. At Yale Law School, Mr. Schultz won the Benjamin J. Cardozo prize for the best appellate brief written in the school's moot court program, as well as the prize for writing the best brief in the northeast region of the National Moot Court competition. In the thirty years since his graduation, he has continued to write quality briefs in appellate courts across the country, including two appeals that he has handled in the United States Supreme Court. As one of the best appeals lawyers around, he has handled appeals rasing some of the following issues: a patient's right to die, the right to forcibly medicate psychiatric patients, a state's right to restrict corporations from seeking to influence state referendums, a homeowner's right to sue for breach of an implied warranty of habitability, the constitutionality of changing a tax rate in the middle of a tax year, and the constitutionality of a contructive taking of property by a city for economic development purposes. He has also handled numerous appeals involving the more typical question of whether a lower court judge abused his discretion in reaching his/her opinion. Some of the appellate briefs written by Mr. Schultz can be found on the Briefs page of the firm's website. The Massachusetts law firm welcomes the opportunity to represent clients who utilized other attorneys, who do not specialize in appellate practice, to handle their trial. The firm cautions potential clients, however, that certain notices must be filed promptly after the issuance of judgments below in order to preserve appellate rights and a decision on which counsel to retain to handle an appeal must be made promptly if you are seeking or taking rather than defending an appeal. If you believe you may need appellate counsel, please contact Mr. Schultz directly by phone or by e-mail at sschultz@engelschultz.com. Engel & Schultz, LLP 265 Franklin Street, Suite 1801 Boston, Massachusetts 02110 Telephone: (617) 951-9980 Fax: (617) 951-0048 mail@engelschultz.com © 2006 Engel & Schultz, LLP The material contained herein may be considered advertising by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court