{"id":484,"date":"2026-10-13T16:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=484"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:02:45","slug":"appellate-trial-support-accelerating-growth-or-new-normal-for-defense-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2026\/10\/13\/appellate-trial-support-accelerating-growth-or-new-normal-for-defense-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Appellate Trial Support: Accelerating Growth or \u2018New Normal\u2019 for Defense Teams?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duane Morris Partner<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/leahmintz.html\"> Leah Mintz <\/a>was quoted in <em> The Legal Intelligencer<\/em> article &#8220;Appellate Trial Support: Accelerating Growth or \u2018New Normal\u2019 for Defense Teams?&#8221; to discuss the growing role of appellate attorneys during the trial stage of litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think that trend has definitely continued and continued to accelerate. We have not seen a leveling off of interest, at least in our practice,&#8221; Mintz said, noting that they have seen &#8220;more and more clients coming to us for this type of work as they get close to trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2026\/10\/12\/appellate-trial-support-accelerating-growth-or-new-normal-for-defense-teams\/\"><em>The Legal Intelligencer&#8217;s<\/em> <\/a>website\u00a0(subscription required). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Morris Partner Leah Mintz was quoted in The Legal Intelligencer article &#8220;Appellate Trial Support: Accelerating Growth or \u2018New Normal\u2019 for Defense Teams?&#8221; to discuss the growing role of appellate attorneys during the trial stage of litigation. \u201cI think that trend has definitely continued and continued to accelerate. We have not seen a leveling off &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2026\/10\/13\/appellate-trial-support-accelerating-growth-or-new-normal-for-defense-teams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appellate Trial Support: Accelerating Growth or \u2018New Normal\u2019 for Defense Teams?&#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":[],"ppma_author":[238],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":238,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/10\/dmlogo.jpg","author_category":"1","last_name":"Davies","first_name":"Thomas","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}