Litigation
Our attorneys are intent upon our client prevailing with thorough preparation and tenacious, aggressive, yet dignified, advocacy in the courts. We are prepared to respond swiftly to seek emergency relief when the rights of our clients are in jeopardy.
Our litigators have successfully represented parties in litigation involving a wide variety of complex commercial and business disputes, including the following areas: acquisitions and mergers, antitrust, banking, condemnation, construction, copyrights, corporate control, defamation, employment, environmental, ERISA and employee benefits, fidelity and surety, franchises, health care, labor relations, municipal law, non-competition agreements, probate, real estate, securities, stockholder disputes, taxation, trademarks, trade secrets, and zoning.
We have extensive experience in federal courts, state courts, and administrative agencies, and are experienced in arbitrations and mediations as advocates.
For more information, please contact Charles Alan Seigel, or any one of our attorneys practicing in this area.
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Alternative Dispute Resolution
Several of our attorneys act as arbitrators and mediators by consent of the parties. For parties unable to resolve a dispute, our attorneys offer a fair, impartial, informed and economically viable alternative to traditional litigation.
One or more of our ADR attorneys have the following credentials and affiliations:
* National Association of Securities Dealers certified arbitrator
* Certified mediator in the Missouri federal courts
* Certified mediator in the Missouri state courts.
Key contact: Charles Alan Seigel
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E-Discovery
Research indicates that 99% of all business documents are now created and stored in electronic format. Our e-Discovery practice group focuses on the practical and legal implications associated with managing this electronically stored information (“ESI”). ESI is discoverable in litigation. Recent court cases, as well as amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, provide guidance to businesses in managing ESI.
The attorneys of our e-Discovery Practice Group have experience in handling ESI in complex litigation. In addition, our attorneys are uniquely positioned to evaluate and understand complex technical issues.
From overseeing the retrieval of “lost” or deleted data, to assisting clients with document retention policies, our attorneys regularly provide proactive, practical advice to clients in all aspects of ESI management.
Key contact: Susan Nell Rowe
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Employment Law and Labor Relations
Our goal is to offer preventative counsel and guidance to employers, enabling achievement of work force objectives and avoidance of pitfalls which frequently result in costly and disruptive grievances, charges before administrative agencies, or litigation.
We are experienced advocates for employers in a variety of Equal Employment Opportunity matters. We have represented employers before local and state civil rights enforcement agencies and in federal and state courts in discrimination cases including: sexual harassment; disability claims; and sex, race, age, religious, and other claims of discrimination. In addition, we are well-versed in claims of wrongful discharge, “whistle-blower” and retaliatory discharge litigation.
We represent clients in collective bargaining processes including unit organization, administering the collective bargaining agreement, grievance evaluation, and arbitration, and are experienced in representing clients before the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor, and other agencies.
Key contact: H Kent Munson
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Health Care
Our attorneys represent a variety of health care organizations, including hospitals, free-standing health service providers, physician groups, and third party payors.
Services to these organizations include matters of representation before regulatory agencies, Certificate of Need and professional licensing committees; ethical issues; fraud and abuse issues; managed care; medical staff; and others.
We are also experienced in health care bond financing, pension and profit-sharing plans, organizational policy development, not-for-profit taxation, employment and personnel matters, and litigation and arbitration in the health care industry.
Key contact: Doreen D Dodson
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Immigration
The Immigration Practice Group represents clients, principally employers, in a variety of immigration matters. We have experience with non-immigration visas of all types, with a particular focus on H-1Bs and immigration visas, both employment-based and family-based. We manage and oversee problems which arise in the immigration process, whether in labor certifications, reduction in recruitment issues (RIRs), immigration petitions, visas, or other processes filed with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service) or the Department of Labor.
Our attorneys are also experienced in family and marriage petitions, religious worker visas, adjustment of status and employment authorizations, and the appeals process for visa denials.
Key contact: Doreen D Dodson
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Intellectual Property and Technology
The Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group focuses on the development, acquisition, protection and exploitation of proprietary technology.
Our intellectual property practice focuses on protecting and exploiting our clients’ intellectual property – whether under trademark, trade dress, trade secret, copyright and/or patent law. A major aspect of our practice encompasses the selection, registration, maintenance, licensing and enforcement of trademarks and copyrights. Our practice also includes litigation involving all forms of intellectual property.
Our technology practice focuses upon clients in cutting edge Internet and electronic commerce industries. This portion of our practice combines specific expertise in the Internet and e-commerce with traditional expertise in business and business litigation, intellectual property, securities regulation, venture capital and tax laws and regulations.
Key contact: John B Greenberg
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