Business and Real
Estate Litigation
Commercial Finance
Corporate
Employment Law
Estate Planning
Immigration
Intellectual Property: Patent, Copyright and Trademark
Land Use and Municipal Law
Lender Litigation
Mergers and Acquisitions
Probate and Trust Administration
Probate and Trust Litigation
Real Estate Transactions
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BUSINESS AND REAL
ESTATE LITIGATION
Litigation can often consume up to
40 percent of corporate legal budgets. Ineffectual litigation means
companies have less to spend on strategic initiatives such as research
and development or mergers and acquisitions. Our experienced
litigators combine dispute resolution skills with industry and local
knowledge to ensure your legal strategies directly support your business
goals.
How We Can Help
- Administrative/public law and
regulatory disputes - We represent private companies, government
institutions, and non-government organizations in regulatory
disputes involving administrative and public law matters, including
regulations on building, land use, planning and zoning.
- Commercial litigation - We help
resolve disputes between business entities arising out of breach of
commercial contracts, such as distributorship agreements;
post-acquisition issues, business defamation, as well as officer and
director liability.
- Construction litigation - We
represent developers, principals, contractors, major subcontractors,
engineering and architectural consultants.
- Information technology disputes - We
deal with all kinds of disputes relating to IT use, involving
privacy, security, e-commerce and online communications, systems
agreements and negotiations, intellectual property issues, and more.
- Insolvency/bankruptcy - We represent
secured and unsecured creditors in adversary proceedings and other
insolvency litigation as well as debtors, creditors and financial
institutions in liquidations and organizations. We also provide
assistance to individuals and businesses seeking protections of U.S.
bankruptcy laws.
- Intellectual property litigation - We
represent clients in enforcing or defending actions involving
infringement of trade secrets and other undisclosed information,
patent and trademark litigation and trade dress rights including
domain name disputes.
- Labor and employment litigation - We
defend or prosecute claims of wrongful discharge, discrimination,
harassment, unfair employment practices, and “whistle-blower”
actions. We also represent clients in the prosecution or defense of
labor or union-related issues such as grievance arbitrations or any
type of adversarial proceeding including litigation that involves
multiple plaintiffs.
- Probate Litigation - We provide
insights on the substantial, procedural and evidentiary rules
involved in the litigation and resolution of probate and estates.
- Real Estate litigation - We represent buyers and sellers of commercial
and residential real estate in varying disputes with brokers, banks,
mortgage banks, mortgage brokers or other parties to the
transaction.
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