Practice Areas

Our Firm is predominantly engaged in litigation and related practice areas including administrative proceedings and the use of alternative dispute resolution forums. The Firm's litigation practice involves a wide variety of case types, including the following areas of emphasis:

Insurance
The Firm provides a wide range of services to the insurance industry. The Firm provides coverage advice and opinions, takes statements under oath, secures policy releases, handles "bad faith" claims, and pursues and defends coverage actions including declaratory judgment actions and inter-carrier contribution and subrogation claims.

Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
Our Firm's personal injury practice focuses on cases involving serious or catastrophic injury or death. Such cases include injuries from burns, electric shock, head trauma, amputations, medical malpractice, and numerous other injury events. Firm attorneys have been involved in personal injury cases in such diverse factual scenarios as auto, truck and motorcycle cases, oil rig accidents, ski accidents, premises liability, sexual abuse, fires and explosions, product defects, aviation disasters, medical malpractice and numerous other factual circumstances.

Products Liability
The Firm has handled cases involving drugs, chemicals, paint, motorized and non-motorized aircraft, firearms, medical devices, food, recreational equipment, industrial equipment and numerous other products.

Construction
The Firm's construction practice involves the defense of claims for home builders, commercial builders and sub-contractors.

Commercial
The Firm represents a wide variety of corporate and individual clients in commercial litigation. Cases include employment, contract disputes, real estate and intellectual property. The Firm also counsels commercial clients in non-litigation matters.

Professional Malpractice
The Firm handles cases involving alleged medical malpractice, legal malpractice, pharmacy liability and insurance agency liability.

Toxic Tort
The Firm handles toxic tort cases involving pesticides, solvents, asbestos, petroleum, carbon monoxide, radiation, and many other toxic substances.

Environmental
The Firm defends product manufacturers, property owners and other defendants in both state and federal court and administrative proceedings. Such cases are often large, complex cases involving dozens or hundreds of plaintiffs and entire subdivisions of property owners. The Firm has also successfully pursued environmental cost recovery claims.

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