There’s something of a subgenre here at The Litigation Daily involving appellate advocates who accomplish great logistic travel feats to deliver their arguments. Be it logging 1,100 miles to deliver arguments on back-to-back days in separate circuits or handling three arguments in four cases in one week, we’re a sucker for a story about an advocate hopping around the country like a contestant on The Amazing Race.
To that end, Wiggin and Dana litigation partner Jonathan Freiman based in New Haven, Connecticut, has taken things to a whole new level. Over 11 days beginning late last month, he logged an impressive 5,500 miles of travel to deliver three appellate arguments for clients across very different industries. To top it off, he delivered the last of those arguments on April 5, shortly after a magnitude-4.8 earthquake shook the whole Northeast corridor—more specifically, the 17th Floor Second Circuit courtroom in Manhattan where he was waiting to take the podium.
