Construction
Construction liability involves various professions, general contractors, architects, subcontractors, and owners in injury or property damage claims as well as those for economic loss.
Our Areas Of Practice
Premises
Premises liability involving landlord-tenant, hotel, and innkeepers from slips and falls in vestibules to actions for civil rape and everything in between.
Real Estate
Real Estate liability arises from contracts, deeds, wills, and governmental taking, affecting commercial and residential properties, condominiums, and easements.
Public Finance
Public Finance actively participated as bond counsel, underwriter’s and placement counsel and borrower’s counsel in numerous transactions involving state, county, city and 501(c)3 entities.
Transportation
Transportation liability involving automobiles, trucks, railroads, and pleasure and commercial watercraft resulting from claims of personal injury, property damage, or economic loss.
Insurance
Insurance liability involving coverage disputes, claims of bad faith refusal to settle claims, contract claims arising out of premium disputes, representation of premium financing institutions, general contractual liability disputes on behalf of primary, excel, and reinsurers, regulatory disputes involving such insurers, and construction and application of various statutes and regulations affecting such insurers.
Warranty
Warranty liability involving automotive manufacturers, foreign and domestic, and automotive dealers under federal fee shifting statutes sued as the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and state lemon law and other fraud enactments.
Employer
Employer liability involves claims of wrongful discharge, racial, sexual, age, and other discrimination, failure to provide benefits, and wrongful discipline based on federal and state statutes, regulations, common law, and contracts.
Professional
Professional liability involving attorneys, architects, engineers, accountants, insurance agents and brokers, investment counselors, financing institutions, real estate brokers, officers and directors, physicians, dentists, podiatrists, nurses, medical technicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, pharmacists, and medical institutions such as hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes.
Commercial
Commercial liability involving claims of breach of contract, breach of warranty, product disparagement, advertising liability, trademark and trade name infringement, violations of contract and statute involving sales representatives and manufacturers’ representatives, enforcement of or defense against non-competition agreements, partnership dissolution, and actions for accounting, creditors’ rights litigation in bankruptcies, and civil disputes generally arising from commercial activity including defamation (both slander and libel).
Environmental
We represent clients in the defense of complex environmental litigation matters. We are experienced in the evaluation of toxic exposures and the analysis of environmental laws and regulations. We handle claims from various circumstances, including personal injury, property damage, construction, and real estate litigation. We have successfully handled cases involving exposure to asbestos, agricultural, petrochemicals, and other toxic chemicals. We are also involved in litigation relating to hazardous waste cleanup, storm waste management, and surface and ground pollution.