Washington DC Appeals & Appellate Lawyers

Jess Johnson is one of the best young lawyers in Georgia. He has been recognized as a “Rising Star” in criminal defense and civil litigation by Super Lawyers Magazine for the past several years. While only 2.5% of lawyers in Georgia under the age of 40 receive such an honor, Jess was first named to this list after only 3 years of practice.

Jess has been instrumental in our firm’s success in both trials and appeals. In his very first trial, Jess was awarded an Acquittal Award from the Federal Defender Program for helping our firm win a “not guilty” verdict...

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.

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...

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