Practice Highlights
- We provide high-quality and timely services to clients at a competitive cost.
- We have gained national recognition for our experience representing clients in a variety of sophisticated and high-stakes commercial litigation matters.
- We have a diverse range of clients from individuals to local, regional and national firms, and include international Fortune 100 companies.
Practice News
- January 4, 2021
Events
- PBA Labor and Employment Law Section Retreat | Webcast | 9 PM - 2 PMMarch 5, 2021
Publications
- January 8, 2021The Legal Intelligencer
Cases & Deals
Commercial Litigation
Commercial disputes distract from, and potentially can derail, the core mission of a business. Sophisticated owners and executives expect legal counsel to provide the shortest and most efficient path to resolution, while keeping their business interests at the forefront.
The Commercial Litigation Group provides a full range of counseling and litigation services and has established an excellent reputation for efficiently providing high-quality and timely services to clients at a competitive cost. Our lawyers have gained national recognition for their experience representing clients in a variety of sophisticated and high-stakes commercial litigation matters in areas such as:
- Shareholder disputes
- Partnership disputes
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy avoidance actions and other bankruptcy claims
- Securities
- Directors and officers liability
- Injunction actions and other special lawsuits requiring immediate relief
- Construction defects
- Commercial contracts
- Lender liability
- Class actions
- Real estate and title insurance
- Professional liability
- Labor and employment law
- Patent, copyright, trade secret and intellectual property
- RICO
- ERISA
The members of our Commercial Litigation Group have practiced extensively in state, federal and private forums across the United States, and have managed complex litigation on a national level. Our team includes accomplished litigators, trial lawyers, and appellate advocates.
We have considerable experience collaborating with corporate representatives, in-house counsel and members of the firm’s other practice groups, leading to more efficient, cost-effective representation. Our diverse clients range from individuals to local, regional and national firms, and include international Fortune 100 companies, publicly held and privately held businesses, banks, manufacturers, law firms, accounting firms, insurance companies, construction companies, health care providers, health care management firms, securities brokerages, and governmental entities.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
The Commercial Litigation Group works with clients in all aspects of alternative dispute resolution. Our experience includes:
- Binding and non-binding, sponsored and non-sponsored arbitration
- Mini-trials
- Summary jury trials
- Employment dispute resolution
- High-low agreements
- “Baseball” agreements
- Structured mediation
- Early neutral evaluation
- Facilitated negotiation
- Confidential listener services
We assist clients as advocates in ADR forums, as counselors in selecting ADR professionals and processes geared favorably toward particular client needs, and as arbitrators and mediators in specialized fields. Our lawyers have designed and implemented client-training programs on a variety of ADR topics at introductory and advanced levels. We also offer services in all aspects of drafting both pre- and post-dispute ADR clauses and procedures and in the design and implementation of ADR programs.
Recognitions and Awards
Many members of the group have been recognized with Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating for legal ethics and ability.
News
- January 4, 2021
- November 5, 2020
- November 5, 2020
- August 20, 2020
- May 12, 2020
- May 12, 2020
- April 23, 2020
- February 14, 2020
- January 6, 2020
- January 2, 2020
- December 6, 2019
- November 1, 2019
- November 1, 2019
- October 17, 2019
- August 15, 2019
- May 22, 2019
- April 26, 2019
- March 27, 2019
- January 21, 2019Pennsylvania Bar News
- January 2, 2019
- November 1, 2018
- October 23, 2018
- October 18, 2018
- August 15, 2018
- August 15, 2018
- January 15, 2018
- January 4, 2018
- November 11, 2017
- November 1, 2017
- September 13, 2017
- August 15, 2017
- May 26, 2017
- April 3, 2017
- February 27, 2017
- February 1, 2017
- October 18, 2016
- September 22, 2016
- September 22, 2016
- September 6, 2016
- January 14, 2016
- October 21, 2015
- October 8, 2015
- October 22, 2014
- October 3, 2014
- August 11, 2014
- March 18, 2014
- January 23, 2014
- January 14, 2014
- October 22, 2013
- September 13, 2013Super Lawyers Magazine
- January 1, 2013
- August 27, 2012LegalNewsline.com
- May 10-11, 2012
- December 16, 2011
- November 15, 2011
- October 2011
Events
- PBA Labor and Employment Law Section Retreat | Webcast | 9 PM - 2 PMMarch 5, 2021
- Bar Association of Lehigh County Webinar | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PMMarch 3, 2021
- PBA Diversity Team Webcast | 4PM - 5PMFebruary 11, 2021
- PBA Midyear Meeting (Live Webcast) | 8:30 am - 10:30 am ESTJanuary 28, 2021
- WebinarNovember 12, 2020 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
- Bar Association of Lehigh County Webinar12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | October 28, 2020
- Pennsylvania Bar Institute WebcastOctober 23, 2020
- Bar Association of Lehigh County Webinar | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AMAugust 19, 2020
- Webinar | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PMAugust 11, 2020
- Pennsylvania Bar Institute (Webinar)August 6, 2020
- Pennsylvania Bar Institute WebcastJuly 20, 2020
- The Supper Club (Webinar)April 29, 2020
- Pennsylvania Bar Association 2020 Midyear MeetingJanuary 30, 2020
- Federal Practice Institute 2019 (Pittsburgh, PA)October 25, 2019
- COMBAR North American Meeting (New Orleans, LA)May 31, 2019
- Pre-Suit Duties Under CGL PoliciesABA TIPS Insurance Coverage Litigation Midyear Meeting (Phoenix, AZ)February 2019
- Pennsylvania Bar Association Midyear Meeting (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands)January 31, 2019
- NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education Seminar (New Brunswick, NJ)August 21, 2018
- Medical Malpractice Litigation, Depositions and DocumentationClient PresentationJune 19, 2018
- PBA Commission on Women in the Profession (WIP) 25th Annual Conference (Hershey, PA)May 11, 2018
- March 29, 2018
- Pennsylvania Bar Association Midyear Meeting (Key West, FL)January 25, 2018
- Bar Association of Lehigh County (Allentown, PA)November 30, 2017
- Philadelphia Bar Association, Young Lawyers DivisionJune 7, 2017
- Pennsylvania Bar Association Annual Meeting | Pittsburgh, PAMay 10, 2017
- Emerging Issues in Insurance LawICLE Seminar (New Brunswick, NJ)January 14, 2012
Publications
- January 8, 2021The Legal Intelligencer
- December 2020The Real Estate Finance Journal
- Delaware Supreme Court Focuses the Ground Rules for Stockholder Books and Records Inspection DemandsDecember 17, 2020Corporate and Securities Alert
- November 2020
- August 19, 2020Litigation Alert
- August 18, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- August 5, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- August 3, 2020Litigation Alert
- July 21, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- July 10, 2020The Legal Intelligencer
- July 9, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- July 7, 2020Litigation Alert
- June 18, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- June 5, 2020Corporate and Securities Alert
- June 4, 2020Litigation Alert
- June 3, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- May 1, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- April 30, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- April 13, 2020Industry Today
- April 10, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- April 6, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- April 3, 2020Commercial Litigation Alert
- March 23, 2020General Commercial Litigation Alert
- February 19, 2020Boston Bar Journal
- January 10, 2019The Legal Intelligencer
- January 9, 2019Reinsurance Alert
- October 25, 2018Litigation Alert
- September 6, 2018Litigation Alert
- August 20, 2018Litigation Alert
- Fifty Years After the Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Recommendations for Improving the Presidential Succession System, Fordham Law Review, 2017
- February 26, 2018Taking Care of Business
- October 25, 2017General Commercial Litigation Alert
- August 28, 2017General Commercial Litigation Alert
- August 8, 2017Law360
- July 17, 2017Corporate and Securities Alert
- June 23, 2017Corporate and Securities Alert
- January 17, 2017The Legal Intelligencer
- November 2, 2016The Legal Intelligencer
- October 13, 2016Labor and Employment Alert
- June 17, 2016Commercial Litigation Alert
- Spoliation of Evidence, Chapter 3 of The Comprehensive Guide to Lost Profits and Other Commercial Damages, Fourth Edition2016
- October 15, 2015Commercial Litigation Alert
- February 10, 2015Law360
- January 27, 2015Commercial Litigation Alert
- January 9, 2015Corporate and Securities Alert
- December 9, 2014
- September 11, 2014Corporate and Securities Alert
- August 12, 2014Corporate and Securities Alert
- July 2, 2014Commercial Litigation Alert
- May 2014Westlaw Journal: Securities Litigation & Regulation
- May 13, 2014Corporate and Securities Alert
- January 15, 2014Coverage Opinions
- September 4, 2013Commercial Litigation Alert
- June 17, 2013Commercial Litigation Alert
- May 23, 2013CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition
Cases & Deals
- December 5, 2019
- June 4, 2019
- April 18, 2019
- March 27, 2019
- August 24, 2018
- August 7, 2018
- August 3, 2018
- July 3, 2018
- May 31, 2018
- November 8, 2017
- June 15, 2017
- August 20, 2015
- August 18, 2015
- November 12, 2014
- August 11, 2014
- January 30, 2013
- December 12, 2012
- January 18, 2012
- November 23, 2011
- November 3, 2011
- October 5, 2011
- December 2010
- Summer 2009
Practice Contacts
- Thomas Fiddler
Chair
215.864.7081 | Email | vCard - Jay Shapiro
Partner
212.714.3063 | Email | vCard