Complex Litigation and Risk Advisory

Our Complex Litigation and Risk Advisory group is your strategic partner for all your legal matters.

Our group can assist in matters from those we can resolve quickly through a simple resolution, to issues that are the most contentious and complex.

Unlike small boutique litigation firms, we can access our firm’s full range of subject matter experts to enhance our extensive litigation experience. Our deep resources are comparable to those of the largest firms, but without the large firm fees, file-stacking with layers of attorneys, and delays. Clients enjoy our efficiency and our national reach through a network of affiliated firms.

We’re ready to forcefully litigate, negotiate, and investigate your matter while remaining focused on your goals.

At times, litigation is not the appropriate initial step. As your legal partner and advisor, we’ll assess all your options and work with you to determine the best strategy to resolve the issue.

Our expertise includes:

• Bet-the-company commercial litigation
• Employment litigation, including discrimination & wrongful termination
• Landlord-tenant & land contract matters
• Non-competition, confidentiality & trade secret protection
• Executive compensation & termination disputes
• Wage and hour & unemployment compensation proceedings
• Shareholder, partner & member disputes
• Divorce, child support & family law
• Probate litigation, including trust disputes, conservatorships & guardianships
• Franchise litigation
• Real property litigation
• Easement & boundary disputes
• Condemnation
• Land use & zoning
• Construction contracts & liens
• Insolvency, bankruptcy, receiverships & emergency manager status
• Mediation & arbitration
• Auto supplier agreements
• Hospitality & hotel management
• Real & personal property tax appeals
• Court case & administrative appeals

Does your company experience the headaches, resource drain, and potential risks of third-party?

Maddin Hauser’s Subpoena Management Assessment Response Team (SMART) applies intelligent triage to distinguish routine civil discovery from high-stakes regulatory and criminal investigations, potential probing for first-party litigation, and consumer privacy landmines. To learn how SMART can help you control costs, ensure defensibility, and outsource subpoena handling in a fixed-fee structure, click here.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” –Albert Einstein

Our Alternative Dispute Resolution attorneys resolve all types of disputes. We creatively draw on our decades of legal experience in many areas of the law and business. We listen, study, and guide the parties through a process designed to achieve a resolution. Litigation involves risk and expense that can often be avoided.

Our dispute resolution expertise can be extremely useful and productive regarding:

• Business disputes: shareholder disputes, medical practice issues, contracts, equipment, leases, vendors and suppliers, employment matters & all other facets of business operations
• Workplace matters: harassment and discrimination claims; wage and benefits disputes; co-worker disputes; supervisor/employee disputes; EEOC matters; work environment and disability issues; performance improvement, non-solicitation, non-compete, confidentiality violations
• Probate and family matters: parenting time, custody, grandparent visitation, trust and will disputes, elder care issues, special needs individuals
• Homeowner matters: neighbor disputes, Homeowners Association (HOA) disputes, boundary problems
• Real property matters: title insurance claims, construction and construction lien disputes, mortgage and foreclosure claims
• Securities claims: suitability, diversification, execution claims
• Insolvency matters: debtor/creditor disputes, workouts

Appellate

“[I]f there is to be no appeal at all possible the system would be intolerable.”
Bowen, L.J., The Queen v. Justices of County of London, &c. (1893), L.R. 2Q.B. 492.

It happens all the time. A contentious lawsuit doesn’t settle. A judge rules on a series of motions and issues a ruling. A judge or jury makes findings of fact based on certain standards. There is a winner and a loser. The dispute is over, right?

All too often the trial court is merely round one. While there may be multiple paths to victory at the trial court level, on appeal litigants may be limited to one brief and a few minutes before a panel of judges to make their case for affirmance or reversal. Years of litigation and attorney fees hang in the balance on a decision by a panel of appellate judges.

When the stakes are this high, your legal counsel must have great insight and the depth of experience to help you navigate the appeal process. Our appellate lawyers more than qualify.

Our appellate attorneys possess the analytical skills to write engaging and persuasive briefs and present compelling oral arguments. We analyze the strengths and weaknesses of all positions to discover the most creative and effective means of articulating our best legal arguments, while also taking a realistic and nuanced approach when addressing unfavorable facts and law. To get an objective perspective, a fresh pair of eyes examines all our appellate matters.

When the stakes are high, you need an experienced, innovative leader who understands the issues as well as recent legal developments that may impact your case.