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Bailey Cavalieri LLC's Litigation Practice Group possesses the full range of capabilities required to meet the litigation needs of the firm's sophisticated business clients. Representing the firm's clients in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels and before governmental regulatory agencies, Bailey Cavalieri's litigation attorneys regularly handle all manners of contract disputes, business-tort disputes, intellectual-property disputes, shareholder disputes, class-action disputes, employment disputes, securities disputes, antitrust disputes, and other disputes that arise in business contexts. The firm's litigation attorneys also handle insurance disputes and professional liability disputes. Recognizing that their clients' interests are often best served through achieving resolutions of disputes without going all the way through trials, Bailey Cavalieri's litigation attorneys have become seasoned veterans of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including mediations and arbitrations.

Contract and Business-Tort Disputes

Businesses do business through contractual relationships, and the competitive marketplace can be a rough-and-tumble world. Unfortunately, disputes sometimes arise. The attorneys in Bailey Cavalieri's Litigation Practice Group regularly assist the firm's clients in navigating the troubled waters of business and commercial litigation and have amassed many years of experience in litigating all manners of business and commercial disputes in the federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels.

Intellectual-Property Disputes

These days, businesses have a lot more to protect than bricks and mortar. Information, ideas, and identifiers can be among a business' most valuable assets. Such items of "intellectual property" can take many forms, including patents, trade secrets, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and copyrighted materials. When Bailey Cavalieri's clients need help protecting their intellectual property through litigation, the attorneys in the firm's Litigation Practice Group have the know-how and experience to be able to help.

Shareholder Disputes

Just as "[t]he best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry," shareholders in closely-held corporations, despite the oneness of purpose that brought them together in their enterprise, sometimes find themselves at odds, resulting in the eruption of disputes that can threaten the very existence of the enterprise. Corporate shareholders at times feel that management is not being sufficiently assertive in pursuing the corporation's rights, and shareholder derivative litigation can result. Shareholder disputes have been around as long as there have been corporations and take many forms. The attorneys in Bailey Cavalieri's Litigation Practice Group represent the firm's clients in handling shareholder disputes of all shapes and sizes.

Class-Action Disputes

"Class action" is a phrase that strikes fear into the heart of many a business executive, as class-action litigation is frequently high-stakes, complex, protracted, and expensive. Consumer class actions often carry the additional specter of multiple-damage and punitive-damage awards. With their experience, the attorneys in Bailey Cavalieri's Litigation Practice Group can help take the fear out of class-action litigation.

Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR")

Litigation in the courts, while time-honored and oftentimes the only way to achieve resolution of business disputes, is increasingly being recognized by many as cumbersome, slow, and expensive. Many a businessperson has lamented: "There must be a better way." Well, there are other ways to resolve many business disputes, and, sometimes, they are, indeed, better. While not exactly panaceas, processes such as early neutral evaluation, mediation, arbitration, summary jury trial, and summary bench trial—which collectively have come to be known as "alternative dispute resolution" techniques or just "ADR"—in many instances result in faster and cheaper resolution of disputes. The attorneys in Bailey Cavalieri's Litigation Practice Group are well versed in all ADR techniques and frequently represent clients in court-annexed ADR proceedings, as well as ADR efforts conducted through private ADR sponsoring organizations, such as the American Arbitration Association, the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, JAMS, and the National Association of Securities Dealers.