Overview
Our litigation teams are well-equipped to handle the most complex business trials, arbitrations, and appeals. We have developed especially deep experience in the defense of class actions and mass actions, white collar representation, high-stakes business litigation, and government investigations. We have tried more than 1,500 cases to judgment or verdict and defended several hundred class actions across the country. We are one of only a handful of firms that have actually tried major class action cases. In the life insurance and financial product liability areas alone, we have represented life and annuity companies in well over 200 class actions in more than 30 states.
The cases we handle cut across every subject area, including consumer and business fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practice Act enforcement, contracts, shareholder disputes, antitrust, insurance, securities, product liability, construction, real estate, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy, labor and employment, intellectual property, health care, telecommunications, energy, constitutional claims, international and domestic arbitration, and federal and state governmental disputes.
Our firm and our trial attorneys receive frequent recognition for their professional excellence and accomplishments. In the 2019 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers, we earned national rankings in several practices including commercial litigation.
Offers clients wide-ranging litigation expertise across both civil and white-collar crime issues. Held in high regard for its criminal defense and government investigations work and excels in an array of areas including healthcare, tax and securities fraud cases.
Named a "Standout" law firm for Complex Commercial Litigation, Class Action Litigation, and Complex Employment Litigation, and included on the "Honor Roll" for Intellectual Property Litigation and Securities and Finance Litigation.
BTI’s Litigation Outlook 2019: Changes, Trends, and Opportunities for Law Firms