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Commercial Litigation

Commercial disputes are often inevitable when it comes to doing business. Our team has the experience necessary to mitigate risks and resolve issues that threaten your business.

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The COVID-19 pandemic presented new and unprecedented legal challenges to businesses which also must be managed. It is essential that clients have capable litigation counsel to manage the problems, litigate the disputes and successfully bring to them to resolution.

Resolving Complex Commercial Litigation Matters

Phelps’ commercial litigation team advises clients on all types of business disputes and complex commercial litigation across a broad spectrum of local, regional and national industry sectors.

Our litigators provide practical and strategic counsel on a diverse range of cases, ranging from contract disputes and regulatory matters, to large-scale class actions, antitrust matters, construction defect and toxic tort claims, appeals and other complex commercial  litigation. We have represented clients in business tort suits implicating sophisticated legal issues arising under federal and state law in cases of local, regional, and national significance, both in the context of individual lawsuits and in the context of multi-party and class action proceedings.

From the onset of a dispute through to resolution, our focus on trial-readiness yields the most effective and cost-efficient results, as key issues are identified early on and used to the full advantage in the litigation and negotiation processes.

Services

Our lawyers handle a wide variety of business disputes involving claims of commercial misconduct, including:

  • Unfair trade practices
  • Trade secret infringement
  • Interference with contracts or business opportunities
  • Commercial defamation
  • Breach of fiduciary duty
  • Contract fraud
  • Tortious misrepresentation
  • Lender liability
  • Unfair debt collection practices
  • Civil RICO violations

We have tried cases that focus on bankruptcy, banking, broker-dealer disputes, construction controversies, corporate problems, environmental issues, the hotel/hospitality industry, gaming, lender liability, oil and gas law, real estate, securities, tax and toxic torts. Several lawyers in the group also specialize in criminal defense work, in particular “white collar” cases.

 

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