Delaware

Firm overview

Saul Ewing’s Litigation Department features approximately 200 attorneys across 18 offices, including our newest locations in Los Angeles and Irvine, California. We handle a wide range of matters including complex business and commercial disputes, bet-the-company legal proceedings, and high-profile cases in state and federal courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) forums across the nation. We represent local, regional, national and international organizations as well as individuals across a diverse array of industries, including but not limited to higher education, energy and environmental, manufacturing, financial and other professional services, construction, insurance, health care, food/beverage/agribusiness, life sciences, cannabis, sports/entertainment and real estate.

Our deep bench of litigators work to protect the interests of our clients and mitigate the impact of litigation on business operations in all phases of litigation, including investigation, pleadings, motions, fact and expert discovery and depositions, hearings, trials, appeals, settlement negotiations, and enforcement of judgments. Among our ranks are seasoned trial lawyers and former government officials and prosecutors, whose insight and strategic judgment are a valuable resource to our entire team.

Our core areas of focus include:

Appellate

Class Actions

Consumer Financial Services Litigation

Cybersecurity and Privacy

Employee Benefits & ERISA Litigation

Labor & Employment

Environmental Civil Litigation

Insurance Litigation & Arbitration

Intellectual Property Litigation

Title Claims & Coverage Litigation

White Collar & Government Enforcement

Within these core areas of focus, we have extensive experience representing clients in pursuing and defending claims of breach of contract, tortious interference with contracts and business relationships, fraud and misrepresentation, lender liability, property liability, negligence, unfair competition, unfair trade practices, antitrust violations, conspiracy, RICO violations, breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, trade disparagement, false advertising, malicious prosecution, theft of trade secrets, intellectual property infringement, trespass, conversion, trust and estate controversies, partnership and corporate dissolutions and claims arising in shareholder and partner derivative actions, among others.

Our Approach: We start by tailoring a strategy to meet our clients’ objectives and risk management priorities, whether those focus on litigation avoidance, early settlement, resolution through dispositive motions, or pursuing a case through adjudication at trial. Using early case assessment tools, we develop a detailed roadmap for each case. We recognize that litigation can be expensive, distracting and time-consuming, and that our clients need cost predictability. Depending on client needs, we are able to create customized litigation plans and budgets at the matter, phase and/or task levels. Our project management team carefully monitors work volume and billing metrics to help ensure that our services align with project scope and needs, and to maximize proactive communication with clients about changes in cost, scope and/or strategy.

eDiscovery: For cases requiring electronic discovery, we rely on our in-house Litigation Support Services (LSS) team, which is driven by members with sophisticated technical knowledge and credentialing by the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists. With extensive experience managing complex eDiscovery collection, processing, review and production, our LSS team leverages advanced analytics and technology-assisted review to quickly identify and locate relevant information, process and analyze data efficiently, and help reduce overall litigation costs.  

Updated Sep 2025

Firm overview

BLB&G is the preeminent securities litigation and investor rights law firm in the United States. Since its founding in 1983, the firm has been dedicated to representing and advising the world's most sophisticated institutional investors in portfolio monitoring, securities litigation (including class action, opt-out, and direct litigation), and corporate governance litigation. BLB&G's clients include public pension funds, Taft-Hartley funds, state attorneys general, state treasurers, and private asset managers.

With offices in New York, Delaware, California, Illinois, and Louisiana, the firm is strategically located in the nation’s epicenters of securities class action and other forms of shareholder litigation, enabling the firm to serve clients effectively throughout the country. The firm has approximately 140 specialized attorneys and 80 professional staff members—including investigators, financial analysts, paralegals, e-discovery specialists, IT professionals, data engineers, and administrative staff—all focused on maximizing financial recoveries for clients and the investor classes they represent.

BLB&G has successfully identified, investigated, and prosecuted many of the most significant securities and corporate governance actions in history, helping clients recover over $40 billion on behalf of defrauded investors. The firm has secured some of the largest class action recoveries in history, including seven recoveries of $1 billion or more—outpacing all other investor-side securities litigation firms. BLB&G has also helped to secure critical corporate governance reforms through litigation, holding companies and directors accountable for corporate misconduct.

BLB&G is consistently listed as a top-ranked firm by ISS Securities Class Action Services (“ISS SCAS”), a leading industry research publication that provides independent and objective third-party analysis and statistics on securities litigation law firms. ISS SCAS ranked the firm #1 in its Top 50 Plaintiff Law Firms of 2023. ISS SCAS also ranked the firm #1 for the 15th consecutive year in its 2025 Top 100 U.S. Class Action Settlements of All-Time report. According to this report, BLB&G dominates the field, having served as lead or co-lead counsel in 37 of the top 100 U.S. securities fraud recoveries and having recovered almost 40% (over $27 billion) of all funds in the top 100 recoveries, $7 billion more than any other plaintiffs’ securities firm.

The firm has used the litigation process to achieve record-setting recoveries for injured investors, as well as precedent-setting corporate governance reforms that have increased market transparency, held wrongdoers accountable, and improved corporate business practices in groundbreaking ways.

Highlights of the firm's recent success on behalf of clients and shareholders include:

- Securing a historic corporate governance trial victory in the Delaware Court of Chancery rescinding Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla compensation package.

- Obtaining a landmark $1 billion recovery in a securities class action against Wells Fargo—the top U.S. securities class action settlement of 2023, one of the top six in the past decade, and among the top 17 of all time.

- Achieving a historic $812 million judgment for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders in a unanimous trial verdict and award of prejudgment interest against the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”). BLB&G convinced the jury that the value of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s stock was significantly decreased by the FHFA’s improperly transferring the companies’ net worth to the U.S. Treasury Department (a “net worth sweep”).

- Securing a $450 million recovery in a class action suit against Kraft Heinz Company, 3G Capital Partners, and former Kraft executives. The claims arose from misstatements regarding Kraft’s financial position, including the carrying value of its assets, the sustainability of its margins, and the success of recent cost-cutting strategies by the company.

Updated Oct 2025

Firm overview

With more than 60 years of experience, Labaton Keller Sucharow stands as a tenacious advocate for investors, having secured billions of dollars in landmark recoveries. Renowned as a global leader in complex litigation, the Firm specializes in representing clients in securities, corporate governance, shareholder rights, and consumer protection and data privacy litigation, as well as alternative dispute resolution. Labaton Keller Sucharow’s successful reputation is built not only on its team of more than 90 attorneys, but also on its industry-leading in-house investigators, financial analysts, and forensic accountants.

Recognized for excellence by both the courts and peers, the Firm is consistently ranked in leading industry publications.

Labaton Keller Sucharow’s offices are strategically located in New York, Delaware, London, and Washington, D.C. More information about Labaton Keller Sucharow is available at www.labaton.com.

Firm overview

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.

Updated Sep 2024