Honora Tolliver
Appellate lawyer, Tolliver Law
Honora runs a one-lawyer appellate practice on Franklin Street and takes civil appeals, criminal appeals and post-conviction petitions, along with work for trial lawyers who want her on a case before the verdict.
She began her career as a law clerk at an appellate court, where she read briefs for a judge and drafted the opinions that answered them. It taught her that judges read closely and quickly, and that the first page of a brief decides how the rest is read.
She spent the next years in a litigation firm’s appellate group before opening her own office, so that every client would deal with the lawyer who writes the brief.
She lives in Eastport, across Spa Creek, and rows on the Severn when the weather allows.
Practice
- Civil appeals
- Criminal appeals
- Post-conviction petitions
- Appellate help for trial lawyers
Honora’s own record
Bar admissions
Maryland
2013
District of Columbia
2015
Courts
Supreme Court of Maryland
Appellate Court of Maryland
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Education
J.D., University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
2013
B.A., St. John’s College, Annapolis
2009
Clerkship
Law clerk to an appellate judge
Two terms
Languages
English
French
Reading
Memberships
Anne Arundel County Bar Association
Maryland State Bar Association
The office
A few streets from the water, and from the courts
The office is a second-floor room on Franklin Street, off Church Circle, a short walk from the appellate courts on Rowe Boulevard. Clients from out of town meet by video; the record travels by email either way.
Most of the work here is reading and writing, so the door is usually closed. Call ahead and it opens.
