Commercial Litigation

With emphasis in the following areas:

• Class Actions
• Directors and Officers
• Intellectual Property
• Securities
• Unfair Trade Practices

The firm's Commercial Litigation trial lawyers are actively involved and experienced in complex commercial disputes in both federal and state courts, in addition to the mediation and arbitration setting. Attorneys are leading advocates and aggressively litigate in cases based upon claims for breach of contract (private and government), real estate, unfair trade practices, false advertising, anti-cyber squatting statutes, fraud, trade libel, and other business claims. We understand our clients' immediate business needs and how they affect litigation strategy. We recognize early resolution is an important objective for our clients and we pursue early resolution aggressively.

Gordon & Rees also handles cases in two of the most contested and developing areas of litigation: Class actions and Intellectual Property. The firm represents publicly traded and private companies in multi-party class action claims for violation of unfair competition laws, false advertising, securities fraud and corporate officer/director disclosures. With respect to IP, attorneys zealously and vigorously protect the interests of our clients in patent, copyright, trademark, trade dress and trade secret litigation, including internet and e-commerce disputes. (See the Intellectual Property group for a detailed summary.) Our trial attorneys provide this same support for litigated matters in the areas of Real Estate and Creditor's Rights & Insolvency.

Finally, our business trial lawyers are committed to providing litigation services with an emphasis towards clients' unique business needs in the technology, telecommunications, development and financial services industries.