New York | Chicago

Our small firm culture fosters nimbleness, innovation and efficiency. We are accessible to our clients 24/7.

Practice Areas

Litigation

We practice in state and federal courts (jury and non-jury trials) and alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. We have extensive experience in a number of areas, including Products Liability and Toxic Torts, Commercial, SEC Defense, Corporate Insurance, Financial Services, Employment, Real Estate, Antitrust, Unfair Competition and Arbitration/Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Antitrust law

Whether your business is large or small, recent increased emphasis on antitrust enforcement at all levels of government make antitrust compliance more important than ever. We have a full service antitrust practice that can assist by helping design business operations of all sizes to maximize opportunities while avoiding practices that would be risky or excessively conservative.

Employment LAW

We have a full service employment law practice, counseling businesses, schools and universities, and executives, officers, directors and trustees, on matters involving virtually every aspect of employer-employee relations.

Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Device and Chemical Practice

Our Practice includes lawyers with advanced doctoral and medical degrees, direct experience with clinical and laboratory research, and advanced training in clinical trials. At the same time, we bring the experience gained in hundreds of major client representations, successfully presenting legal and scientific issues to juries, judges, and arbitrators/mediators.

Real Estate

Our real estate practice includes the following: Commercial Leasing, Purchase and Sale Transactions, Financing Transactions, Not-for-Profit Organizations,Cooperatives and Condominiums and Workouts and Foreclosures.

 

Corporate Governance, SEC Defense and Investigations

We have extensive experience in government and internal investigations, compliance programs, class action defense and matters of corporate governance. We counsel on how to improve business ethics compliance programs to avoid future risks. We are well-versed in crisis management and the legal obligations and duties of directors.

Business and Corporate

Our business law practice includes public and private businesses of varying sizes and the following areas: Securities Laws, Transactional Practice, Business Ventures and Not-For-Profit Organizations.

Private Client

Our private client practice includes services for Estate Planning Focusing on the Transfer of Wealth, Impact of Matrimony on the Transfer of Wealth, Trust and Estate Administration, Estate Litigation and Residential Real Estate Transactions.

Food and consumer products

Our Food and Consumer Products team counsels clients and defends litigation involving product design, manufacture, distribution, collaboration, marketing, compliance, licensing, trademark, and advertising. Our combined experiences cover such products as pharmaceuticals, biologics, combination products, food, food packaging, animal feed and drugs, food safety equipment, and consumer goods, for products made in the US and imported from abroad. Our team includes affiliated specialty counsel with depth in specific product and regulatory areas, and some of our lawyers have doctoral degrees in scientific fields.