Litigation
For more than 120 years Squire Sanders lawyers have assisted the leading business entities of the day. More than 300 lawyers are dedicated to a litigation practice that achieves outstanding results for clients. We pride ourselves on providing strategic and creative advice to our clients and having the tactical skills and support essential to achieve success. We work closely with our clients, many of them leaders of major industries, to develop winning strategies, whether by trial, appeal, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) or negotiation. With a proven record of success, our legacy is a host of satisfied clients. But we also recognize that a client’s definition of success in a particular case may simply be the most cost-effective way of resolving the dispute, with due regard to overarching policy issues. Our commitment to clients is complemented by the caliber of our lawyers’ education and experience. What’s more, we have received numerous recognitions from respected groups and publications.
Case Management Techniques for Complex Litigation
Combining our deep arbitration and litigation experience with expert case management skills, we can handle large matters involving complex legal and factual issues, severe time constraints, multiple related cases and numerous parties and documents. Effective case management is one of the most important goals of large firm litigation. How we handle litigation at the outset affects not only our clients’ prospects of success, but also their satisfaction with our fees.
Our litigation work plans are central to many a success. Too often large firms assume every case will wind up at trial. At Squire Sanders, we work with clients and their in-house counsel early on to develop plans that account for the need and likelihood of litigation, the probability of success, the extent of discovery required and the possibility of ADR. Our plans become effective case management tools that maximize our client’s strategy and our own efficiency. We also adapt well to plans developed with major clients’ in-house counsel and other core counsel.
Pushing for Early Success
Although we are proud of our success at trials, we realize that many cases can be won with quick and aggressive applications. We position our clients to ensure that applications for summary judgment and other pre-trial remedies, where available, are made effectively and early in the proceedings. When possible we employ early arbitration, mediation and ADR where those techniques would better represent our clients’ interests. We take pride in our professionalism and our “can-do” spirit.
We represent clients in many types of litigation including:
- Antitrust
- Appellate and Supreme Court
- Banking
- Bankruptcy
- Class actions
- Commercial contracts
- Construction
- Converging technologies
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- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Labor and employment
- Pensions
- Product liability
- Securities
- Toxic torts
- White collar and corporate compliance
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Proving Our Case
Our combination of strategic and creative advice is just one of the reasons we have been chosen as national or regional counsel for many major corporations. In addition, independent research conducted around the world continually shows Squire Sanders lawyers as eminently qualified.
Practice Expertise
Case Studies
When Madrid-based pharmaceutical business Industrial Farmaceutica Cantabria sought legal assistance with a problematic investment in a Florida-based pharmaceutical company, a recommendation led the company’s corporate officers to Squire Sanders. A me...
In November 2009, Squire Sanders filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases for AmTrust Financial Corporation (now known as AmFin Financial Corporation) and five subsidiaries in Cleveland. AmTrust Financial was the holding company for AmTrust Bank, which was ...