Business & commercial dispute lawyers

Lisa S. Tsai tries commercial cases involving financial fraud, professional liability, fiduciary breaches, cross-border shareholder disputes, and complex business torts.

John W. Houghtaling II represents commercial policyholders in hurricane and property insurance disputes, with a practice built around policy evidence.

The question was how Anthropic obtained the books. Geman served as co-lead class counsel for authors in the copyright case that reached a $1.5 billion settlement.

Michael J. Gottlieb represented Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss through discovery sanctions, a damages trial, an injunction, bankruptcy enforcement, and satisfaction of their defamation judgment.

Christopher M. Mattei served as lead counsel for the Sandy Hook families against Alex Jones and represents plaintiffs in medical-malpractice and election litigation.

Robert A. Nersesian represents casino patrons and advantage players in false-imprisonment, property, gaming-law, and constitutional cases nationwide.

William M. Shernoff pioneered insurance bad-faith litigation for policyholders and has handled catastrophe, disability, health, and property-insurance claims.

Alexander R. Wheeler tries and appeals cases involving catastrophic injury, wrongful death, workplace and school safety, defamation, class claims, and judgment enforcement.

G. Kirk Domescik structures healthcare transactions involving hospital affiliations, physician-practice sales, facility portfolios, private equity, joint ventures, and governance.

Joel Friedlander prosecutes Delaware stockholder cases through trial and appeal, with a record including Rural/Metro, Activision Blizzard, and Mindbody.

Gregory V. Varallo prosecutes shareholder cases in Delaware, with a trial and appellate record spanning Tesla, Mindbody, and the Williams poison-pill challenge.

A ventilator order went undelivered during the pandemic. Kirtley’s firm represented the Maldives in arbitration that ordered repayment, damages, interest and costs.

Randall J. Baron represents shareholders in merger trials and litigation involving investment-bank liability and board accountability.

R. Joseph Barton represents employees and plan participants in ESOP, pension, and ERISA litigation.

Laura H. Posner represents public funds and other investors in securities class actions, market-manipulation matters, public enforcement, and fiduciary counseling.

Co-lead counsel for U.S. potash buyers in Minn-Chem v. Agrium, the en banc Seventh Circuit FTAIA ruling, and $90 million in direct purchaser settlements.

Katherine Rosenfeld litigates New York civil-rights and class actions involving police misconduct, disability and language access, prison abuse, pregnancy restraints, employment, and immigrants’ rights.

Sharan Nirmul represents investors in securities class actions built through discovery, expert proof, trial preparation, and settlement.

Terence R. Coates co-led the Elekta genetic-data breach and Advocate Aurora pixel class actions, which ended in $8.9 million and $12.225 million settlements.

Dara Hegar manages mass-tort litigation involving multi-plaintiff trials, product liability, negotiations with public entities, settlement allocation, and national case strategy.

Sigrid S. McCawley helped Epstein survivors pursue claims against JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America by tracing transactions, internal warnings, delayed reports, and the banks’ alleged knowledge.

Lane R. Jubb Jr. tries medical-malpractice, aviation, defamation, Title IX, civil-rights, and wrongful-use-of-civil-proceedings cases.

Jim Butler tries auto-defect cases for Georgia families, including Brogdon v. Ford, the Super Duty roof case that drew a $2.5 billion punitive verdict.

Mark C. Molumphy represents investors in securities and governance matters involving discovery, trial preparation, and negotiated resolutions.