Tycko & Zavareei LLP lawyers use experience, creativity, and courage to fight for the public interest in complex, groundbreaking cases.
Why Tycko & Zavareei LLP?
Tycko & Zavareei LLP lawyers use experience, creativity, and courage to fight for the public interest in complex, groundbreaking cases.
Glenn Chappell is chair of Tycko & Zavareei LLP’s Appellate Practice Group. He and his team primarily represent consumers, plaintiffs, and public interest groups in high-impact appellate litigation. He briefs and argues cases in appellate courts across the country, most recently including the United States Supreme Court (one principal brief and three amicus curiae briefs in the past year), numerous federal circuit courts (more than a dozen appeals in the past year), and state appellate courts. He has significant experience at every stage of pursuing and defending appeals, including oral argument, principal and amicus curiae brief writing, petitions for certiorari and interlocutory review, and motions practice.
Mr. Chappell believes the best appellate lawyers have intimate first-hand knowledge of how a case is tried. Accordingly, he also maintains an active litigation practice in the trial courts. He is currently serving as Discovery Chair in two multidistrict litigation proceedings and class counsel representing millions of consumers at both the trial and settlement stages in multiple cases. He also routinely serves as embedded appellate counsel in trial court proceedings, advising co-counsel on crucial issues in the case with an eye toward future appellate proceedings. He and his colleagues have secured victories for their clients at every level from trial courts to courts of last resort.
Before joining Tycko & Zavareei, Mr. Chappell was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. During his time at Gibson Dunn, he practiced in the firm’s award-winning Appellate and Constitutional Law and Litigation practice groups. He also maintained an active pro bono practice that focused on police and sentencing reform.
Mr. Chappell graduated summa cum laude from Duke University School of Law in 2017, where he dedicated more than 450 hours to pro bono work and served as Managing Editor of the Duke Law Journal and Senior Research Editor of the Duke Law & Technology Review. After graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Honorable Anthony J. Trenga of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. His legal scholarship has appeared in multiple publications, including the Duke Law Journal and the University of Richmond Law Review.
He graduated with honors from Saint Leo University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration.
Counsel for Senator Mark Warner in Supreme Court case involving challenge to federal government’s engagement with social media platforms over foreign malign influence threats.
Counsel for a coalition of law and history scholars in Supreme Court case involving First Amendment challenge to social media anti-censorship laws.
Lead counsel in appeal presenting important issues of fist impression concerning interpretation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Lead counsel for plaintiff in United States Supreme Court litigation.
Briefed and argued appeal that resulted in the Fifth Circuit reversing the dismissal of a class action suit by a student against her university for refusing to refund tuition and fees paid for in-person, on-campus instruction and services canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Co-lead counsel in appeal that resulted in the Ninth Circuit reviving a multimillion dollar False Claims Act suit against one of the nation’s largest corporations.
Appointed Apple Discovery Counsel, assisting Offensive Discovery and ESI Coordination Counsel, with discovery efforts related to all claims against Apple.
Obtained certification of three nationwide classes of consumers in Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit against one of the nation’s largest real estate companies. Successfully opposed petition for appellate review of class certification order in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Successfully opposed petition for appellate review of class certification against one of the nation’s largest auto insurance companies in U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Successfully opposed petition for interlocutory review in Louisiana Court of Appeal.
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