Represent and advise clients on antitrust issues arising in joint ventures and e-commerce business relationships; advise corporate clients on antitrust implications of proposed conduct or transactions; represent clients in antitrust litigation. Represent individuals and businesses as plaintiffs or defendants in disputes involving all types of business relationships and transactions, including contracts, misrepresentation, fraud, fiduciary duties, professional negligence, or business torts. Our experience encompasses the growth of compulsory arbitration provisions in contracts affecting many business transactions and business relationships. Represent parties in all types of disputes, including completion of work, quality of work, and related matters. Represent parties in consumer fraud matters, including cases involving fraudulent insurance and annuity scams, real estate transactions, deceptive trade practices and pyramid schemes. Represent and advise businesses on a range of legal issues affecting their business and business relationships (including managing specially retained outside counsel for particular subject matters outside our area of experience), including contracts with business partners, vendors or customers, labor and employment matters and general issue-spotting and risk assessment. Represent borrowers or lenders in connection with all types of disputes or potential disputes, including loan workouts, real estate foreclosures and lender liability cases; represent lenders in bank participation agreement dispute resolution, financial institution bond coverage work, customer account disputes, and others. Antitrust
Commercial Litigation and Arbitration
Construction Law
Consumer Fraud
Corporate Outside Counsel
Financial Institutions
Represent insurers or insureds in a variety of matters arising out of the insurance relationship, including first party coverage disputes, employee or agent termination cases, insurance and reinsurance contract litigation, and defense of insurance good faith and fair dealing cases. Represent employers or employees in a variety of matters, including trade secrets, covenants not to compete, and wrongful termination claims. Represent landlords or tenants in a variety of matters arising out of the landlord/tenant relationship, including breach of lease disputes, landlord lien claims and related matters. Provide clients “fresh look” analysis or objective second opinion, pre-litigation or during existing litigation; experience includes assessment of management of costs and attorney’s fees and issue spotting in most areas of business disputes. Represent clients in court-ordered mediations as well as in contractually-mandated pre-suit mediations; have accepted court appointments to act as mediators in cases in which we are not representing the parties to the lawsuit. Represent parties in litigation matters involving federal and state securities laws, including securities fraud claims. Represent clients in establishing business transactions and business relationships, including drafting written agreements, where our extensive experience in dispute resolution gives clients a value-added component to try to avoid future disputes. Insurance
Labor and Employment
Landlord/Tenant
Litigation Risk Assessment
Mediation
Securities Litigation
Transactional Services