In today’s legal and regulatory environment, litigation can threaten a company’s very existence. Skadden’s lawyers have extensive experience with such complex, “bet-the-company” litigation matters, and we are widely recognized for our ability to handle our clients’ most critical litigation issues. The firm can rapidly assemble a focused, integrated and efficient team to address all important aspects of a client’s problem and to handle numerous cases in multiple jurisdictions and forums. We have handled some of the largest and most high-profile cases in recent years, earning a reputation as a go-to firm for litigation, and we are responsible for numerous decisions, from the trial courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, that have shaped various areas of law.
Our Litigation Group comprises approximately 600 attorneys throughout the firm’s offices worldwide, and Skadden attorneys are admitted to practice throughout the United States as well as in more than 30 other countries and territories. In particular, our New York- based attorneys have extensively litigated in New York state and federal courts. Moreover, Skadden was the first national law firm to establish a presence in Delaware more than 40 years ago, and our Delaware litigation attorneys have a wealth of experience in the renowned Court of Chancery. Our California-based offices, in Los Angeles and Palo Alto, as well as our Washington D.C., Chicago, Boston and Houston offices, round out our national presence, allowing us to effectively handle complex disputes that may arise in any U.S. jurisdiction, or several jurisdictions at once. Our international experience, through offices in Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America, and our numerous multilingual attorneys, further enable us to seamlessly represent clients globally and to successfully handle disputes of an international nature.
We represent clients in all stages of litigation, from applying cutting edge e-discovery capabilities to trials. Indeed, Skadden is recognized as having a leading national trial practice, and our attorneys score groundbreaking precedent-setting trial wins that are highly favorable to our clients’ bottom line. Our trial lawyers often inherit cases from other firms when trial is imminent, and we offer the capabilities to quickly pull together crisis teams to confront challenges wherever our clients face them. Moreover, our attorneys are no strangers to appellate state and federal courts throughout the country. We also frequently appear in arbitral forums, including the American Arbitration Association, JAMS, FINRA, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution and other domestic and international dispute resolution tribunals.
Our team represents clients in proceedings involving numerous government agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service. We also serve in an advisory capacity, striving to achieve results that best align with our clients’ business goals.
Our attorneys have significant experience litigating all types of complex commercial claims, including contract disputes; fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and tortious interference claims; non-compete litigation; merger-related litigation and control disputes; joint venture and partnership disputes; bankruptcy and restructuring-related issues; and statutory claims. Our renowned securities litigation practice frequently handles some of the most challenging, high-stakes securities litigation matters, and we have served as lead counsel in several of the largest securities class actions in U.S. history. Our experience in these and other complex litigation claims spans numerous industries, including banking, energy, financial services, insurance, health care, manufacturing, mortgage, pharmaceutical, real estate, retail, technology and telecommunications.
In addition to handling some of the largest, most complex litigations, Skadden attorneys represent clients in a wide variety of pro bono matters, from trials to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The world’s leading organizations and global players choose Proskauer to represent them when they need it the most. With 800+ lawyers in key financial centers around the world, we are known for our pragmatic and commercial approach. Proskauer is the place to turn when a matter is complex, innovative and game-changing. We work seamlessly across practices, industries and jurisdictions with asset managers, private equity and venture capital firms, Fortune 500 and FTSE companies, major sports leagues, entertainment industry legends and other industry-redefining companies.
Proskauer lawyers are at the cutting edge of contentious matters and have extensive trial experience in virtually every major forum across the globe. Proskauer has established itself as the go-to litigation and labor & employment firm for Fortune 100 companies, titans of the sports and cultural world, industry leaders in consumer products, and even commonwealths in times of existential crisis. We represent clients in challenging circumstances, address novel critical issues, and have a strong track record of success, securing landmark victories in the most high-profile of matters.
Our litigators have the depth, breadth and experience to handle disputes across industries and practice areas, including antitrust, products liability, asset management, sports, labor & employment, bankruptcy, copyright, false advertising, trademark, insurance recovery, international arbitration, patents, privacy and cybersecurity, real estate, securities, and white collar. Our clients turn to us for all aspects of litigation: trials, appeals (including at the Supreme Court), investigations, counseling, and government contractor issues.
Proskauer is consistently ranked for its litigation capabilities throughout the United States and abroad. We have earned top rankings from The American Lawyer (including regional publications), Benchmark Litigation, U.S. News Best Lawyers, Daily Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Chambers, among others. The Firm was also previously noted in the New York Law Journal as a General Litigation Finalist for Litigation Department of the Year.
Clients called on us throughout the year to help them navigate their most challenging disputes, and we met the moment. Recent representations include:
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Founded in 1982, Berman Tabacco is a national law firm with offices in California and Massachusetts. The firm has devoted its practice to complex litigation, primarily under the securities and antitrust laws, as well as other related services requested by its institutional clients and consumer class actions.
Securities Litigation: Berman Tabacco has over 40 years of securities -litigation experience and has represented public pension funds, multiemployer plans and other institutional investors in that area since 1998. The firm has prosecuted some of the largest securities cases and has recovered billions of dollars on behalf of investors. The firm prides itself on its client-focused approach, exercising superior legal judgment in advising clients about complex cases. Indeed, the quality of the firm’s evaluations and litigation acumen is evidence by several facts. First, Berman Tabacco’s dismissal rate for cases brought under the federal securities laws is less than half the overall dismissal rate for such cases, based on the reported dismissal rate by one authoritative study, Securities Class Action Filings: 2023 Year in Review, pp. 19, 37 (Cornerstone Research 2024). Second, Berman Tabacco appears as one of the firms with the most settlements on the list of the top 100 largest securities class actions in ISS Securities Class Action Services’ published report, Top 100 U.S. Class Action Settlements of All Time (as of 12/31/2023).
Selected successes include:
Antitrust Litigation: Berman Tabacco’s antitrust practice also has a national reputation for prosecuting class actions that involve anticompetitive conduct and con-spiracies to fix or maintain prices. Over the years, the firm has played a major role in the prosecution of numerous landmark antitrust cases and some of the largest antitrust settle-ments—recovering billions of dollars for class members. The following are examples of the antitrust group’s efforts:
Moreover, in the past decade, the firm’s antitrust and securities attorneys have been prosecuting class actions on behalf of its institutional clients alleging that class members suffered investment losses due to violations of the antitrust laws. Select examples include:
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