- Practices
- Complex litigation
- Education
- J.D., University of Chicago Law School, with high honors — Order of the CoifB.S.F.S., Georgetown University
- Admissions
- New YorkU.S. Courts of Appeals, First, Second, Third & Ninth CircuitsSupreme Court of the United States
- Clerkships
- Law clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitLaw clerk, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Contact
- cdoyle@westbrookhayes.example
Counsel · Appellate & Critical Motions
Catherine L. Doyle
“A brief has one reader that matters. Write every sentence for that reader.”
Catherine Doyle runs the firm's appellate and critical-motions desk — the briefs that end cases and the records that win appeals before they are filed. Two federal clerkships taught her how judges actually read; her practice is built on writing for that reader and no one else.
Trial partners bring her in on day one, not after the verdict. The firm's view is that appellate strategy is trial strategy, merely on a longer clock.
Representative matters
Fictional matters shown on a sample site; past results do not guarantee future outcomes.
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Briefed and argued the appeal reversing a $240M adverse judgment against a firm client.
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Authored the dispositive-motion strategy that ended a securities class action at the pleadings stage.
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Has briefed more than 30 federal appeals, including as invited amicus counsel.
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Embeds with trial teams from the first complaint to preserve the record the appeal will need.