{"id":346,"date":"2023-08-30T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=346"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:10:32","slug":"duane-morris-rob-byer-honored-again-as-appellate-lawyer-of-the-year-in-pittsburgh-by-best-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2023\/08\/30\/duane-morris-rob-byer-honored-again-as-appellate-lawyer-of-the-year-in-pittsburgh-by-best-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Duane Morris\u2019 Rob Byer Honored Again as Appellate \u201cLawyer of the Year\u201d in Pittsburgh by Best Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Morris partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/robertlbyer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert L. Byer<\/a> has been recognized by <em>Best Lawyers<\/em>\u00ae as the \u201c2024 Appellate Lawyer of the Year\u201d in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The recognition is given to only one attorney for each practice area and city. Lawyers are selected based on high marks received during peer-review assessments conducted by <em>Best Lawyers <\/em>each year. He also received this distinction in 2020, 2016 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Byer concentrates his practice in appellate and legal issues litigation. Mr. Byer is a former judge of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court and Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline. As an appellate lawyer, Mr. Byer has argued or briefed over\u00a0300 appeals in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, District of Columbia and Federal Circuits, the Pennsylvania appellate courts and the appellate courts of California, Maryland and Washington. He also has briefed and worked on appeals in the United States Supreme Court. His appellate work and legal-issues litigation experience covers a wide range of legal areas, including\u00a0corporate governance,\u00a0intellectual property, administrative agency law,\u00a0tax\u00a0cases, Constitutional law,\u00a0real estate\u00a0and land use regulation,\u00a0insurance coverage, contracts,\u00a0professional liability,\u00a0products liability and toxic torts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/robertlbyer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/robertlbyer.html noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/robertlbyer.html alignnone wp-image-348 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/ByerLOTY24.jpg\" alt=\"Rob Byer\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/ByerLOTY24.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/ByerLOTY24-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/ByerLOTY24-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Morris partner Robert L. Byer has been recognized by Best Lawyers\u00ae as the \u201c2024 Appellate Lawyer of the Year\u201d in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The recognition is given to only one attorney for each practice area and city. Lawyers are selected based on high marks received during peer-review assessments conducted by Best Lawyers each year. He &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2023\/08\/30\/duane-morris-rob-byer-honored-again-as-appellate-lawyer-of-the-year-in-pittsburgh-by-best-lawyers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Duane Morris\u2019 Rob Byer Honored Again as Appellate \u201cLawyer of the Year\u201d in Pittsburgh by Best Lawyers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,125,126,56],"ppma_author":[238],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-appellate","tag-best-lawyers-lawyer-of-the-year","tag-pittsburgh","tag-robert-byer"],"authors":[{"term_id":238,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}