Trial

Our Firm’s Trial Department provides clients with trial skills and experience which can be effectively used in the many areas of law and business where disputes arise. We are regularly engaged in all aspects of civil, regulatory and white-collar criminal defense litigation in U.S. and international forums. Our goal is to efficiently resolve disputes to the satisfaction of clients, whether by trials, alternative dispute resolution or favorable settlements.

Our Firm delivers full litigation service from resident trial partners and associates throughout all of our offices. Our strategic office locations enable us to respond to clients’ needs quickly and effectively, regardless of geographic location. We staff cases with lawyers from more than one office as necessary to provide the best team possible for a given situation. All of our litigators work closely with and are supported by our other departments.

Our Trial Department has handled thousands of mediations, arbitrations, trials and appeals. Our experience includes handling emergency situations such as temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, bench and jury trials, arbitrations and alternative dispute resolution, including mediations and summary jury trials. This experience enables us to tailor out staffing and strategy to the individual case, because we know each case presents different facts, issues and objectives.

We staff cases carefully and efficiently, without an unnecessary number of lawyers, and use paralegals, proven case management procedures and early case resolution efforts to reduce the cost of litigation. We take pride in our training program for trial attorneys. Associates take part in a formal multi-year training program that develops their trial skills, including depositions, oral argument, trials and legal writing. We also have internal review programs which subject trial and appellate strategies to peer review.

Substantive areas and industries in which we have substantial litigation practices include the following: