Washington DC Appeals & Appellate Lawyers

A passionate defender of students’ rights, Kim helps those facing serious disciplinary actions navigate the most difficult times of their lives. She zealously advocates for students when a Title IX complaint and the daunting possibility of expulsion threatens to unravel their lives and destroy their futures. Kim has worked extensively with individuals facing conduct accusations, representing college, graduate, and medical school students, as well as university professors and employees looking at possible termination. She also works with those facing disciplinary action for alleged misconduct stemming from learning, language, and developmental disabilities. Kim understands the gravity of what’s at stake for those...

Ellen Renaud, a Shareholder at the law firm of Alan Lescht & Associates, P.C., has represented employees in public and private sector discrimination claims since September 2002. Ms. Renaud has litigated cases under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the D.C. Human Rights Act. She has tried and won several cases in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the Superior Court of the...

For over three decades, Jerry has litigated civil trial and appellate cases in federal courts throughout the United States. He has been lead appellate counsel in well over 100 appeals in the federal courts and has significant Supreme Court experience. He is one of the very few attorneys who has presented oral argument in all 13 federal circuit courts of appeals.
Jerry earned his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Dayton School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. He also earned an LL.M. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in securities and financial...

Prior to law school, Attorney McCants taught high school chemistry and at Southern Illinois University. In addition, Attorney McCants has worked in the legal department of large Chicago bank, the Illinois Attorney General Office, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, American Express Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Unit, as the independent auditor of the largest debt collection law firm in the Country, and as a Partner at the Cochran Firm (now Imhoff & Associates) as and as a longitude adjunct researcher at the University of Chicago. He has been published in nearly every major news outlet in the United States and Canada.

Licensed to practice in District of Columbia , Maryland, Florida and all United States District Courts in those jurisdictions.