The firm's litigation practice is nationwide and includes a substantial
number of commercial, securities, banking, and other business-related
cases. For certain clients, the firm continues to serve as either national
or regional litigation counsel in order to bring a uniform approach
to related or recurring problems. The lawyers are experienced in the
entire spectrum of resolving disputes: negotiation, settlement, mediation,
and taking cases before arbitrators, judges, juries and appellate courts.
While the substantive areas of the civil litigation practice are too
numerous to list exhaustively, those areas include claims for securities
fraud, fiduciary duty breaches, corporate derivative claims, banking
issues, contract breaches, business torts, Uniform Commercial Code actions,
failed corporate mergers, trade secret misappropriation, restrictive
covenants, antitrust actions, product liability, employment discrimination
and various forms of consumer litigation. In addition to defending and
prosecuting individual claims, the firm has extensive experience in
defending class and mass actions in the securities, ERISA, consumer,
and other areas.
All of the firm's trial lawyers are solidly credentialed and battle-tested.
Virtually all were selected for law review, with two serving as editor-in-chief.
They are trained to write and argue concisely and powerfully. In line
with professional standards of conduct and simple civility, they represent
their clients "zealously within the bounds of the law," and
they have a proven track record of success.