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Strickland Webster, LLC Strickland Webster, LLC is an Atlanta law firm specializing in appeals and federal criminal cases.

Our team consists of two attorneys, Sydney Strickland and Leigh Ann Webster. As your attorneys, we are excited to advocate for you and to use our education and experience to help you. We work together on each of our cases, ensuring that you always have a team of experienced professionals working on your case. If you or someone you know needs assistance in any of the following areas,

please contact us at 404-590-7967. IMMIGRATION:
Ensuring your immigration status in this country is one of the most important challenges you can face. The attorneys at Strickland Webster understand this, and we will do everything possible to help you obtain and protect your immigration status. CRIMINAL DEFENSE AND POST-CONVICTION RELIEF
Because of their prior court experience, the attorneys at Strickland Webster have unique and invaluable perspectives on the challenges facing criminal defendants and those who have already been convicted. If you or your loved one is facing charges or has already been convicted, we can help. APPEALS
Whether you are a party seeking a new lawyer to handle your appeal or an attorney with a question about how to frame an issue on appeal, we can help. The attorneys at Strickland Webster have a combined six years of experience exclusively handling appeals.

09/19/2026

At yesterday’s hearing, the statewide agency responsible for “assuring that adequate and effective legal representation is provided, independently of political considerations or private interests, to indigent persons” entitled to representation suggested significant changes to Georgia’s appellate system that would severely curtail their own clients’ ability to vindicate their constitutional right to effective representation. This is our response to those proposals.

09/19/2026

One idea that keeps being thrown around in the discussions about when and how to litigate claims of ineffective assistance of counsel is that they don’t win very often. But does that mean they don’t matter? We can assure you that for the clients who win on those claims, they are incredibly important.

09/19/2026

The federal system isn’t always better, and it cannot be replicated in Georgia.

09/19/2026

Yesterday, Leigh Ann testified at the third and final hearing of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Post-Conviction Litigation in Milledgeville.

The Committee was created after Chief Justice Nels Peterson issued a concurrence that suggested moving claims of ineffective assistance of counsel to habeas petitions, instead of having them be litigated in a defendant’s first appeal. While we agree that there are lots of problems with the current appellate system, the solution is not to make it harder to litigate claims that a defendant was deprived of their constitutional right to an effective lawyer. Going into the 2027 legislative session, we hope that legislators will make appropriate changes to improve the system for all of its participants.

We are really grateful for all of the many hours people have spent on trying to improve the system, and to the Committee members for listening and taking our concerns seriously.

Lunch and Learn! Tune in Thursday for some super practical tips on how to handle an appeal from start to finish.
09/14/2026

Lunch and Learn! Tune in Thursday for some super practical tips on how to handle an appeal from start to finish.

Recently, Chief Justice Peterson of the Georgia Supreme Court issued a concurrence suggesting a major change to Georgia’...
08/22/2026

Recently, Chief Justice Peterson of the Georgia Supreme Court issued a concurrence suggesting a major change to Georgia’s appellate and post-conviction landscape: moving ineffective assistance of counsel claims to habeas petitions. A group of dedicated appellate/post-conviction practitioners has been working to address that proposal, including by developing some alternate solutions to the very real concerns voiced in the Sanders concurrence. Today, I testified at the second hearing of the Blue Ribbon Study Committee on Post-Conviction Litigation to put forth some of those proposals. We are all grateful for the time and interest of the Committee members and their commitment to making this process better, not worse.

We are quoted in this article about the Georgia Supreme Court’s decision to stop hearing most murder cases starting next...
08/18/2026

We are quoted in this article about the Georgia Supreme Court’s decision to stop hearing most murder cases starting next year. To put it succinctly, we aren’t fans of this decision.

Back, back, back again—this time to argue about whether the government’s withholding of evidence means our client should...
08/12/2026

Back, back, back again—this time to argue about whether the government’s withholding of evidence means our client should get a new trial, or if Brady doesn’t mean anything anymore. Fingers crossed the Court will do the right thing!

Sydney was back at the Eleventh Circuit for another oral argument today. This time, we were on appeal #2 for this clie...
08/11/2026

Sydney was back at the Eleventh Circuit for another oral argument today. This time, we were on appeal #2 for this client, after we won the first appeal and he got a significantly lower sentence on remand. But we’re always up for the fight to do even better so we were back trying to get an even better outcome for him.

Another 11th Circuit oral argument in the books today!
07/23/2026

Another 11th Circuit oral argument in the books today!

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