Litigation

We handle virtually all varieties of commercial litigation at the administrative, trial court, and appellate levels, as well as through the various channels of alternative dispute resolution. With the firm proximately located in downtown Little Rock, centrally placed within the State, we practice regularly in all state and federal courts in Arkansas, as well as in the courts of other jurisdictions as needed by our clients. We are also well versed in the ways of administrative proceedings before a broad array of governmental and quasi-governmental boards. Likewise, we frequently use alternative dispute resolution through mediation and arbitration to the good advantage of our clients.

We have represented clients in a wide array of litigation matters.  Many of those areas are addressed separately.  Other litigation areas include the following:

Banking

Banking is a highly regulated and highly litigated industry. We serve as Arkansas litigation counsel for a number of the nation's largest banks, and likewise assist a number of Arkansas' small and mid-size banks in their counseling and litigation needs. We offer expertise in the following areas:

• Lender-liability counseling and defense
• Customer litigation
• FCRA and other regulatory compliance litigation
• Vendor relations litigation

Complex Business Litigation

Complex commercial litigation, which plays no favorites between large and small businesses, encompasses the great majority of our litigation practice, including antitrust class actions, products liability, securities, technology and lender liability actions, which are described in more specific detail on this page. Suffice it to say, however, that we have a long tradition of success in the most complicated, high stakes litigation in the State of Arkansas. We develop the strategy, budget, organize the evidence, and comprehensively present at trial, using the most current technology in novel and precedent-setting cases. We have the size to handle large and time-intensive litigation, as well as the expertise and technology to do so cost-effectively, regardless of whether our client is a publicly held Fortune 500 company or a privately held family business.

Products Liability

Products liability defense requires organized and efficient case management and a keen sense of when to "hold them" and when to "show them." This is an area of foucs for several of our litigators. Satisfied clients include, to mention a few, a leading U.S. car and truck manufacturer, a leading Japanese car manufacturer, an international recreational products manufacturer, two medical appliance manufacturers, and one of the country's largest tire manufacturers. Nor do we limit ourselves to the defense of large, public corporations. Much of our product liability defense practice is for smaller, local companies for whom discrete and speedy resolution and/or limitation of risk is a priority. We are equally adept in these matters, handling individual instances of alleged liability cost-effectively.

Securities

As securities regulation has changed over the last decade, beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lampf, Pleva v. Gilbertson through the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and everything in between, we have stayed abreast of the impacts those changes are having on securities litigation. In this area we represent clients in employee and customer arbitration and litigation and shareholder litigation.

Technology

Anything that is part of everyday life necessarily becomes a subject of litigation. From e-commerce issues to the most recent privacy regulations to software licensing and attendant disputes, our litigators are up to the challenge. We also advise clients on appropriate corporate policies for use of technology such as e-mail and internet access, on B2B networking, electronic document retention and website impacts on litigation.