The Hospitality Practice Group offers a wide array of preventative services designed to minimize the client's risk of involvement in expensive litigation. However, when litigation cannot be avoided, the Group is also able to mobilize a team of litigators with extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts.

On the transactional side, the Group's Corporate, International, Real Estate and Construction lawyers regularly represent clients in the negotiation of commercial agreements ranging from simple leases to complex construction contracts as well as the lease, purchase and sale of multi-million dollar resorts and recreational based developments.

The Group's employment and labor attorneys have successfully represented some of the most famous golf developments, hotels and hotel management companies in the world with respect to such diverse matters as the creation of unique "employment cultures" for new luxury resorts; all aspects of union representation campaigns and collective bargaining; the defense of complex wage/hour class actions; preventative "audits" designed to insure both legal compliance and the implementation of "best practices" and the presentation of informative and entertaining management training programs.

Our Insurance experts advise clients with respect to all aspects of coverage and defense and regularly work with major insurance carriers as approved counsel on complex matters.

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

• Successful defense of major luxury hotels in complex wage and hour class actions
• Representation of U.S. based companies including major financial institutions in connection with complex hotel and resort developments in Latin America
• Coordination of global litigation in Hong Kong, Canada, Australia and the U.S. over trademark rights
• Litigation of environmental, construction defect and real estate disputes involving major developers, builders and architects
• Successful representation of hotel, resort and rental car company employers in over 100 union campaigns and the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements for major hotels and resorts across the mainland U.S. and Hawaii
• "Due Diligence" representation of buyers and sellers of both union and non-union luxury resorts
• Preparation and presentation of sophisticated training programs for major luxury hotel, restaurant and rental car companies
• Successful representation of clients before state and federal administrative agencies like OSHA, the EEOC, the NLRB and various agencies responsible for environmental matters
• Consultation with a major construction company on the creation of unique employment policies and procedures designed to insure the delivery of unparalleled service at a $500 million project that has become one of the world's most famous and successful resorts
• Successful defense of one of the largest restaurant companies in the U.S. in a complex and highly publicized sexual harassment litigation