The firm has represented clients in high-profile litigation and disputes concerning matters where anti-competitive action was alleged. Our clients have included Fortune 500 companies.
The firm has successfully represented numerous clients in arbitrations involving substantial commercial, insurance, and contract claims.
The firm has represented individuals and business entities of all types in the formation and dissolution of various forms of business organizations, the purchase and sale of assets and stock, and the preparation of shareholder, partnership, and employment agreements.
The firm represents foreign and domestic clients before the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce; the Office of Foreign Assets Control; the U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Federal Courts. We have experience in all phases of Customs proceedings, including customs duty assessments, criminal and civil enforcement proceedings, audit defense, antidumping and Safeguard laws and drafting of federal legislation and regulation. We guide corporations in import compliance and tariff engineering exercises to minimize risk and lower assessments.
We have extensive experience in environmental law, with both litigation and regulatory matters. We represent clients (insurance, municipal, and corporate) in various matters, including water pollution management, air pollution management, solid waste management and CERCLA. Our experience includes insurance coverage questions, environmental impairment, defending potentially responsible parties ("PRPs") in CERCLA litigation, cost recovery actions by the USEPA, and contribution actions by other PRPs.
The firm has extensive experience in the defense and handling of both federal and state securities law claims, including Rule 10(b)(5) and churning actions.
The firm has wide experience in defending general liability tort claims. These cases include premises liability, automobile accidents, electrical accidents, crane and other heavy equipment accidents, and other general negligence actions.
The firm maintains an active practice in the developing area of health care litigation and in labor and employment health care issues, including matters involving managed health care.
The firm maintains an active practice involving coverage issues arising out of policies of insurance, including comprehensive general liability, environmental impairment liability, and professional liability policies. We have analyzed bad-faith issues and have defended insurers in actions for bad faith and against allegations of improper claims practices. We have evaluated coverage issues on behalf of our clients not only under Pennsylvania law, but also under the laws of other states.
We have provided expert witness services in bad-faith litigation.
The firm has represented insurance carriers and their insureds in numerous and diverse claims covered by policies of insurance, including premises liability, personal injury, professional malpractice, equine-related claims, and fire and casualty losses.
The firm has been active in various roles in liquidation and rehabilitation proceedings involving both domestic and foreign insurance and reinsurance companies.
We provide representation to employers in non-union employment environments involving classic "unit" employees and administrative and executive staffs, and in union organizational campaigns, collective bargaining and arbitration proceedings, and in various claims of discrimination, unfair labor practices and other agency proceedings and other civil actions arising from the workplace, or as a result of employment-related controversies. We are experienced in state, federal and regulatory actions alleging race, sex, age, disability, and other discrimination claims under statutes such as Title VII, the NLRA, the ADEA, OSHA, and ERISA, in common law and statutory claims for wages, retaliatory discharge, wrongful termination, and the continuously evolving host of civil employment-related actions. We also have substantial experience in representing public employers in the gamut of their labor relations and employment-related concerns. A significant aspect of our practice is counseling employers in unionized, partially unionized, and non-union environments to attempt to improve communications and avoid litigation where it is unnecessary.
The firm has defended individual attorneys and law firms in various types of cases involving claims of professional malpractice. In addition, several members of the firm have provided expert witness services in legal malpractice actions.
The firm defends and provides legal counsel to health care providers in various types of medical malpractice cases. Those disputes have involved general practitioners, specialists, and hospitals.
The firm represents municipal corporations in matters concerning operations under the enabling statutes for municipal authorities and environmental liability and zoning.
The firm defends manufacturers and distributors of various products, including electrical devices, manufacturing and construction equipment, chain saws, lawnmowers, and truck-mounted cranes and lifts.
We have extensive experience in handling reinsurance litigation and arbitration matters. We have represented reinsurers, intermediaries, brokers, and managing general agents and have defended reinsurers being sued for breach of contract. We have also represented cedents in reinsurance collection matters. In addition, we have represented cedents and reinsurers in connection with regulatory matters and agency proceedings.
The firm has advised individuals, partnerships, cor-porations, and other business entities in state and local tax planning and has represented taxpayers before courts and administrative tax tribunals in contesting assessments.
The firm has been involved in a multitude of matters relating to insurance coverage and direct defense of toxic tort claims and Superfund litigation.