Administrative Appeals​

The legal administrative world can be complicated.  With state, local, and federal agency regulations controlling what you can and can’t do (in both the private and public sphere), it’s important to have an administrative appeals attorney you can trust. ​

If you find yourself subject to an adverse agency ruling (for example, denying a license), you may be able to appeal to a court.  First, your petition for reconsideration of the agency’s initial decision must have been submitted and denied and all appeals within the agency must be exhausted.  The next step for you and your administrative appeals lawyer is to file a petition for judicial review, commonly called an appeal, with the correct court.   The petition for judicial review of a final agency decision must be filed within 30 days of the agency’s order.  ​

Keep in mind that, while your appeal is pending, the administrative order you are challenging will still be in effect unless you have petitioned for and been granted a stay from either the administrative agency that entered the order or the court to which you are appealing.  ​

Not all agency actions can be appealed.  If a party has not fully exhausted the internal agency remedies available, then they may not be able to appeal.  In other words, you cannot skip a step in the administrative review process and jump straight to a court of appeal unless there is a clear and legal basis to do so or the court to which you are appealing had jurisdiction over the original case (as with some agency seizures of high-value items that are also at issue in a court case.  Experienced administrative appeals attorneys are fully familiar with this and other complexities of the appeals process. ​

The most important parts of your appellate petition are the facts and legal arguments showing that you have a right to appeal to a court, the request for relief (describing which agency action you want the court to overturn), and – of course — your argument that your request should be granted.  Worley Appellate’s administrative lawyers have a long history of identifying solid grounds for appeal and reducing complex issues to concise, persuasive arguments.  When results matter, it is critically important to have an experienced administrative appeals attorney representing you early in the process.  ​

If you or someone you know is subject to an adverse decision or regulation issued by a state or federal government agency, contact Worley Appellate today to discuss your case.  Our appellate lawyers have more than 30 years of experience handling complex appeals and we have the resources to investigate and prepare your appeal.  Worley Appellate represents people from communities across the United States.  Some jurisdictions award attorney’s fees to the prevailing party in agency appeals, so you should discuss the possibility of recovering your attorney fees if you prevail on your administrative appeal with our administrative appeals lawyers.​​