Business and Commercial Litigation

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The Firm focuses its business litigation practice on complex financial-based disputes in federal and state courts.

Unparalleled Trial Experience

The Firm’s lawyers provide strategic advice and direction to their clients, leading to successful resolutions of complex financial disputes. The Firm considers its lawyers to be advisors and counselors as well as advocates. If a pre-trial solution cannot be found, the Firm has highly skilled and experienced trial lawyers ready to represent clients before judges and juries.

The Firm has represented, as plaintiffs and defendants, countries, states, corporations, and individuals before federal and state juries, trial courts, appellate courts, and arbitration panels. Its lawyers have represented clients nationwide, in almost many areas of financial and commercial law, including contractual disputes, UCC, securities, real estate, partnership and joint venture disputes, fraud, lender liability, aviation, construction, intellectual property, employment, international arbitration, administrative law, and regulatory actions.

The Firm has also been engaged to prosecute and defend numerous business torts ranging from intentional interference with contractual relationships to defamation. It has obtained injunctions and defended actions to enjoin theft of trade secrets and unfair competition. It has prosecuted and defended actions for conversion, civil theft, unfair trade practices, antitrust, RICO, and many other statutory and common law torts.

The Firm is unparalleled in its experience in actually trying cases involving complex business disputes. The Firm has tried cases before judges and juries in such arcane and complicated legal areas as interest rate swaps, reverse repurchase transactions, lender liability, securities, partnership disputes, corporate governance issues, construction defects, and bankruptcy avoidance issues.