Business Litigation

We provide a wide variety of legal services to individuals, joint ventures, partnerships and corporations. For businesses of all sizes, we assist in dealing with a broad array of legal and practical issues.  When litigation is the only way to resolve a conflict, we know how to win.

• Breach of Contract

• Business Torts

• Construction Dispute Resolution

• Employment

• Financial

• Real Estate

In each of these areas, we have the resources and experience needed to help you develop and pursue sound legal strategies.

When building a defense, we keep clients in the decision-making loop to help ensure that litigation decisions and business decisions are compatible. We do this through a combination of budgeting, reporting, and risk analysis that builds trust, instills confidence, and underscores our commitment to your business goals.

When necessary, we take cases to the highest courts.  We try cases that should be tried, and aggressively seek alternative solutions when they should not. We will settle when doing so is in our client’s best interest, or provide alternatives to costly litigation altogether through arbitration and mediation.

Our business litigation practice covers the spectrum of business relationships. Its variety parallels the assortment of commercial ventures and arrangements in which our clients are involved.

Because of the variety of litigation we have handled, we have extensive experience with the breadth of remedies that are sought in business cases. From lost profits to receiverships to injunctions to specific performance to an array of consequential damages claims, we are prepared to creatively and persuasively present and defend claims based on these theories.

Our business litigation practice covers:

Breach of contract - The fundamental type of dispute involved is, one way or another, the classic breach of contract or agreement, with its many permutations. We have prosecuted and defended this type of claim, from the simple to the complex, in virtually every business context: manufacturing, distribution, communications, high tech, services, real estate, etc.

Business torts - We handle a variety of business torts claims, including negligent misrepresentation, fraud, concealment, conversion, and breach of fiduciary duty.

Construction dispute resolution - We have substantial expertise in preparing, presenting and defending construction disputes involving liability for defective design, delay and disruption claims, terminations for default, interference claims, back charges, change orders, bidding and award disputes, protests, labor, lost productivity, cost escalation, construction failures, warranties, insurance claims, and mechanics' liens.

Employment  - We handle a variety of employment litigation including overtime issues, employment discrimination, sexual discrimination, non-compete clauses, and wrongful termination.

Financial - We have handled all of the various types of litigation in which banks and other financial institutions may become involved, both as plaintiffs and as defendants, including numerous lender liability cases.

Real estate litigation - We represent buyers, sellers, developers, landlords, tenants and owners in a wide variety of real estate disputes.