Commercial Litigation
Where Business and Law Intersect
McGlinchey Stafford’s nationally recognized litigation team defends businesses, corporations, financial institutions and lenders, individuals and insurers in a full range of commercial litigation issues and industries.
Our practice experience includes a special emphasis on complex corporate and contract disputes, creditors’ rights litigation on behalf of financial institutions and lenders, and lender representation in bankruptcies and workouts.
McGlinchey Stafford defends national and regional clients – from Fortune 500 companies, including major national banks, to entrepreneurs and growing entities – in their litigation and regulatory matters across the country.
We represent clients against allegations made in a wide variety of cases, including in multidistrict and class action matters involving:
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Cost-effective delivery of legal services, risk reduction, and national reach are hallmarks of our commercial litigators. Our in-depth knowledge of our clients’ businesses helps our lawyers streamline litigation and assist clients in avoiding or minimizing future litigation.
Major recent litigation achievements include:
- Defending a major national bank and its subsidiaries in dozens of related lender liability cases in state and federal courts, each involving multiple plaintiffs, on issues involving contract and fraud claims with national implications.
- Representing a lender in a federal appellate court case that validated the practices of this client and many other lenders, avoiding a potential adverse effect on the industry of hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Restricting exposure in a high-damage intellectual property and breach of contract claim against a privately held, public-purpose bank.
- Resolving and handling cases of national importance involving developers’ rights when faced with zoning and other restrictions.
- Serving as counsel for major creditors in some of the largest bankruptcies in the Southern region.
Industries we actively represent include:
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Litigation Practice Scope
Widely recognized for their litigation strength by the business community, the financial services industry and preeminent lawyer rating groups, McGlinchey trial lawyers handle the most sensitive and complex matters.
Our litigation approach is cost and time-efficient, business-practical, and solution-driven. McGlinchey Stafford’s firmwide resources are expansive. Highly trained paralegal and technology teams support our litigators to expedite case management and client communications.
Frequently, commercial conflicts and disputes require representation before various regulatory, administrative and governmental agencies. The firm’s government relations team assists clients in achieving legislative and regulatory solutions as part of litigation strategies.
Our attorneys also maintain productive relationships with key agencies across our clients’ industries. We protect their interests before federal, state and local authorities, including during inquiries and investigations conducted by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.
An additional litigation strength is found in our class action defense team. Our varied experiences and creative strategies are successfully employed in cases nationwide and have become a model for others to follow.
McGlinchey Stafford is nationally recognized for its award-winning CAFA Law Blog. The first blog ever to focus on the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, the CAFA blog is written by our litigators and covers every CAFA case in the country.
Because alternative dispute resolution is a significant component of a litigation game plan, our attorneys are well-versed in ADR. We achieve numerous favorable client outcomes in arbitration and mediation venues. A number of our attorneys are also trained mediators and arbitrators, and our familiarity with the process helps achieve successful results in ADR.
