Business Litigation
Are you being sued? (or) Do you need to resolve a dispute?
Whether you are being sued or need to assert a claim against another party, our firm can assist you.
We handle business litigation and Appeals.
We represent Businesses and individuals with all types of business litigation needs from unfair competition and contract disputes to construction Construction Law defect, commercial leasing disputes and real property disputes.
While we will review alternative dispute resolutions (Mediation & Arbitration), if the matter cannot be settled, litigation may be your best option to achieve the result you want.
Identify your problems,
but give your energy
to the solutions!
If you are interviewing several attorneys to find a good fit, which we urge you to do, consider a no-cost telephone or zoom consultation with one of our attorneys, after we conduct a conflict-of-interest check, to determine whether we can best assert or defend your claim.
“Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
– William Gaddis
If you are in litigation, you want an Attorney that is experienced, who you can trust to know the process, provide sound advice, explain your options and make it affordable, so that you can see it through to the end.
Pre-Filing Preparation:
Before filing a lawsuit or answering a complaint, it is important to:
- (1) Scan all relevant documents into a confidential, page numbered file
- (2) Create a factual chronology of events that names witnesses and their oral admissions, as verbatim as possible, and then
- (3) Annotate the chronology with the documents,
- (4) Create a discovery plan of what documents or statements might still be needed from the other side(s) to prove claims, damages, and defenses.
Often, the urgencies of threatened or needed injunctive relief, delay in hiring counsel, ongoing operating deadlines in a client’s business, and other time pressures might allow for only an abbreviated preparation. However, the more complete this preparation, the more efficiently the litigation can proceed. A thorough marshaling of evidence saves considerable attorney time and fees and allows counsel to act within less time and with greater decisiveness.
Review of Options and Goals:
With over 30 years of experience, options in tactics and procedures can be developed and reviewed with our clients, along with relative cost estimates, within a very short time after having an opportunity to review the evidence in hand. As much as possible, each client is empowered to not only control the direction and goals of any dispute resolution but also to control the timing and costs relative to their business’ cash flow. Almost as important as realizing an optimal result, in the end, is ensuring that any adverse impacts of litigation upon a client’s business are minimized.
Dispute Resolution:
From the very onset, business disputes are negotiations. Each side must weigh adverse costs and risks against benefits, fine-tuning their needs, goals, and tactics with each change in circumstances. We can employ extensive jury and bench trial and appellate experience, along with numerous methods of arbitrations and mediations. Litigation procedures, used in combination with hybrid dispute resolution formats, tailored to fit your case means that our clients enjoy optimal and efficient methods of resolving disputes at the earliest possible time.
Preventative Law:
It is not enough to resolve disputes. Attorney representation must go beyond that to deliver real value to each client. Each dispute presents an opportunity to assist a client in adjusting business practices to avoid similar disputes in the future as far as reasonably possible to do so without compromising the competitiveness of a client’s business. Effective preventative efforts can effectively double the value of the legal services that we can offer by saving our clients future litigation costs, or alternatively, enabling our clients to more effectively and efficiently address them if they should ever arise again. We provide future benefits of preventative law, which sets us apart from other representations in litigation.