Litigation

We are organized into nationwide practices to ensure that you have the most capable, experienced attorneys to help you with your specific litigation needs, including:

Antitrust: Foley’s Antitrust attorneys provide comprehensive antitrust defense services keyed to a strong, compliance-based approach.

Appellate: As both advocates and counselors — in court and through amicus briefs — we represent clients in appeals before federal and state courts and agencies throughout the country. Most of our approximately 400 litigators have substantial experience in both trial-level and appellate litigation. In addition, our Appellate attorneys focus their practices on appellate advocacy and counseling.

Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations: Our Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practice is a national practice, with a clientele in all major regions of the United States. Our experience in bankruptcy and workouts and our strength in trustee and bondholder work have earned us high marks by The Legal 500 every year since 2010.

Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution: Foley’s Litigation attorneys leverage their experience, project management skills, and technology to add value when representing our corporate clients in a variety of disputes. We can represent you in all state and federal trial and appellate courts, in disputes with the government, and in arbitration, mediation, and other alternative dispute resolution fora.

Construction: Our Construction attorneys have the judgment and experience to guide you through the most complex issues — from the drawing board to completion, and every dispute that may arise from a project. In 2012, The Legal 500 highlighted the practice’s ability to adapt to changing market forces.

Consumer Financial Services: The attorneys in our Consumer Financial Services Practice represent financial institutions, businesses in the credit card industry, and other financial services companies in all types of disputes with their borrowers. Our clients include commercial banks, thrifts, finance companies, credit card issuers, acquirers and processors, and mortgage bankers.

Distribution & Franchise: Foley’s Distribution & Franchise attorneys counsel you in the law and business of distribution and franchise and the resolution of disputes through negotiation and litigation.

Government Enforcement, Compliance & White Collar Defense: Our Government Enforcement, Compliance & White Collar Defense attorneys represent businesses and individuals in government enforcement proceedings, criminal investigations and trials, false claims investigations and trials, and other types of internal investigations. We also have attorneys who focus their practice on FCPA and anti-corruption services and represent clients affected by, under investigation for, or sued for alleged violations of the False Claims Act.

Immigration, Nationality & Consular Law: Our Labor & Employment attorneys provide immigration counsel to foreign nationals, U.S. companies, and bi-national families.

Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation: Our Insurance attorneys provide legal solutions to the insurance and reinsurance industries in a wide variety of contexts — everything from mergers and acquisitions and regulatory compliance to litigation and intellectual property — reflecting and anticipating all aspects of an insurer’s or reinsurer’s operations and legal needs. Touting the “excellent” practice, The Legal 500 reported in 2012 that it “stands out from its competition in the way it responds to client needs.”

Labor & Employment: Foley’s Labor & Employment attorneys provide compliance counseling and litigation services to help you promote effective labor-management relations and ensure compliance with state and federal labor, discrimination, and wage and hour laws.

Privacy, Security & Information Management: Foley’s Privacy, Security & Information Management Practice delivers strategic, practical advice to U.S. and international companies seeking to improve the use of information assets with compliant, risk-mitigating practices. Our practice is regularly recognized as one of the top global privacy practices.

Securities Enforcement & Litigation: Our Securities Enforcement & Litigation attorneys counsel clients targeted for securities, commodities, and derivatives litigation, arbitration, or investigations by state or federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies.

We have represented corporations in nearly every industry, handling some of the largest and most complex commercial lawsuits and arbitrations for domestic and international clients. This experience allows us to develop the most efficient litigation strategy that meets your business objectives. Depending on your needs, we can provide complete state and federal trial and appellate representation; arbitration, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution services; and counsel and representation before administrative adjudications and in regulatory investigations and hearings.

Generally, it is safe to say that a prudent settlement is better than a prolonged war of attrition, no matter how successful. That is why, when appropriate, we advocate the use of alternative dispute resolution methods to resolve your litigation matters quickly and efficiently, which may help to reduce the costs and delays often associated with commercial litigation.

The cost of litigation can be great, not only in terms of your time and money, but in the potential damage to your company’s reputation and goodwill in the marketplace. That is why you need litigators who understand and respect your strategy and goals, and emphasize case management, risk evaluation analyses, and frequent communications to meet those goals. We follow a case- management approach with a strategy dependent upon the probability of success, the ramifications of the outcome on your image, the likelihood of future litigation, and the cost. With Foley LitAdvantage^SM, our litigation services delivery model, we leverage knowledge, experience, and tools to embrace matter budgeting because we know that you need to predict, as much as possible, the costs of the litigation. The goal is to avoid surprises.

As a value-added service, we employ Litigation Support Services coordinators strategically throughout the country. At the onset of each case, Litigation Support Services members consult with you to discuss and agree upon the best use of technology (e.g., database, images, OCR, extranet, spreadsheets, and so forth) and continue to provide ongoing advice on the best practices for case management pertaining to documents and technology. They also develop, maintain, and oversee relationships with vendors and utilize volume to obtain pricing advantages. By providing services in-house, we are able to control the security and quality of our product while, throughout the life of each matter, members will work seamlessly with the trial team to deliver solutions that benefit you.