Why Hegge & Confusione?

We're devoted to only appellate practice. This makes us superior appellate advocates.

We've earned a reputation as an emerging leader—particularly in New Jersey's appellate courts. We've litigated more than 100 appeals in New Jersey's Appellate Division and Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second and Third Circuits.

Most recently, we represented plaintiffs in design-defect litigation against Ford Motor Company and persuaded a New Jersey appeals court to reverse a no cause of action verdict that Ford had obtained after a 14-day jury trial (click here to read more). We've had continued success in landmark criminal appeals as well, persuading the New Jersey Supreme Court to reverse 37-year-old precedent that permitted polygraph results into evidence at New Jersey trials (click here to read more).

What's our formula for success? Not having tried the case, we give clients the fresh perspective that's needed on appeal—clarifying the issues that matter to appellate courts. We view the case in much the same way that the appellate judges themselves are likely to view it (judges who also were not involved at trial).

We take particular pride in our written briefs. Our experience has taught us that appeals are usually won or lost on the brief, and that the best briefs raise only one or two issues that really impacted the case's outcome. We identify these issues and frame them in a way that encourages the appellate court to adopt our construction of the case—a construction that implicitly favors our clients and leads to rulings in their favor. We don't obscure these issues by raising other trial rulings that appellate courts routinely disregard as harmless error. And while we value oral argument, we understand its role: to reinforce the arguments we've already advanced in our brief and to address questions the court may have in trying to decide the case.

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