Virginia Hinrichs McMichael
Managing Attorney, Appellate Law Group LLC
Virginia Hinrichs McMichael practices exclusively in the area of appellate law. She appears regularly in the Pennsylvania appellate courts. In the last few years, she has represented appellants and appellees on appeal in cases involving contract disputes, land use, divorce, paternity, child support, and criminal defense. During her career, McMichael has successfully represented clients in complex national and international cases in state and federal courts in a wide range of substantive areas of law — including bankruptcy, civil rights, commercial, constitutional, criminal, employment, family, international, labor, medical malpractice, municipal, products liability, real estate, RICO, securities, tax, and trusts and estates.
McMichael is a former partner and Chair of the Appellate Practice Group at Dilworth Paxson, LLC, a premier litigation firm. Before joining Dilworth, she was an Attorney/Advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and an associate in the offices of Lynne Z. Gold-Bikin and Associates.
McMichael has a J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law, where she was a Senior Editor of the Texas International Law Journal, and an A.B. with High Honors in English from Middlebury College. She has an AV Pre-eminent peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, a “Superb” rating from Avvo, and is a Super Lawyer in the area of appellate practice. She is fluent in Spanish and French.
- University of Texas - Austin
- J.D. (1983) | Law
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- Activities: Coordinating Notes & Comments Editor, Texas International Law Journal
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- Middlebury College
- B.A. (1978) | English
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- Honors: High Honors in English
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- University of London, Goldsmith's College
- English
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- Founder and Managing Attorney
- Appellate Law Group LLC
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- Attorney/Advisor
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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- Attorney
- Lynne Z. Gold-Bikin & Associates
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- Using the Latest Technology to Tame the Appellate Record and Produce Better Briefs
- The Pennsylvania Lawyer
- What Appellate Lawyers Wish Trial Lawyers Knew About Appeals
- Pennsylvania Bar Association - Civil Litigation Update
- Choose Me! Maximizing Your Chances for Discretionary Review
- American Bar Association, Council of Appellate Lawyers
- The Changing Business of Appellate Practice
- American Bar Association, Council of Appellate Lawyers
- The Journey of a Lawyer, How one woman came to the law and where it has taken her
- The Pennsylvania Lawyer
- A Different Persuasion: Argument Before the Appellate Courts, PBA Civil Litigation Section Retreat 2020, Cape May, NJ
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Sophisticated Issues for Family Lawyers, Panelist on Appellate Practice, Mechanicsburg, PA
- Pennsylvania Bar Institute
- American Bar Association Council of Appellate Lawyers
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- Pennsylvania Bar Association Appellate Advocacy Committee
- Member
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- Philadelphia Bar Association, Appellate Courts Committee
- Member
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- Delaware County Bar Association
- Member
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- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Women in the Profession Committee
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- Pennsylvania
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- 2nd Circuit
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- 3rd Circuit
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Credit Cards Accepted
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
We handle appeals on a flat fee or billable hour basis.
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- French: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken, Written