Litigation

Litigation Strategies for Today’s Challenges and Tomorrow’s Risks

When companies need creative and practical solutions to contentious business disputes or sensitive corporate governance challenges, they turn to Stradling’s litigators. Our close-knit teams defend businesses, directors and officers, and private equity firms. Our work spans complex partnership and contract disputes, securities class actions, derivative suits, malpractice claims, real estate litigation and government investigations. Local Southern California companies and out-of-state entities with California-based litigation have trusted our big law training, proven trial success and efficient litigation technology platforms for decades.

A Serious Trial Track Record
We are seasoned litigators with a long track record of securing trial and appellate victories in state and federal courts. Our ability to connect with judges and juries has led to favorable outcomes for medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies, private equity firms, investment banks, aerospace manufacturers, technology companies, and consumer goods manufacturers facing a wide variety of challenging civil and criminal allegations. 

The Right Team to Tackle Formidable Threats
Though we’re trial-ready, we focus on saving time and money with preemptive strategies to dismiss or limit the scope of claims. In the face of a class action, we contest class certification, obtain dismissals and deflect copycat suits by challenging factual issues and threshold defenses. For long-term clients facing bet-the-company situations, we balance their objectives with our pursuit of new evidence and winning arguments.

As often as possible, we seek to resolve client disputes efficiently through mediation or arbitration. When settlement is the best option, we draw on our boardroom experience and proven negotiation skills to achieve favorable results that get our clients back to business as quickly as possible.

Tailored Strategies Deliver Lasting Results
Understanding how our clients structure and operate their businesses positions our litigators to develop swift defense strategies. In defending allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, securities fraud or trademark misappropriation, our clients' goals and risk tolerance help guide each step. For contentious disputes between business partners or investors, we focus on solutions that minimize damage to future operations.

Tools to Anticipate Compliance and Governance Risk
More than ever, companies are at risk of major litigation brought by private parties, shareholders, competitors and the government. To manage that risk, companies frequently seek our counsel in creating their compliance programs. Rather than working in isolation, we tap into the perspectives of lawyers in the firm who handle criminal investigations, employment cases, intellectual property infringement and government investigations. By vetting our approach with a broad group, we are able to develop policies strong enough to withstand tough legal and regulatory scrutiny. Our analysis of current legislative changes and government enforcement trends enables us to help companies improve their contracts, licensing agreements and shareholder agreements.

Powerful Platforms: eDiscovery and Data Forensics
eDiscovery and data forensics help drive our repeatable and defensible discovery methods. Responsiveness to client demands for cost-effective resources and local solutions are at the center of our eDiscovery strategy, which includes a team of experienced attorneys and eDiscovery professionals who are specialists in their fields. We have our own eDiscovery technology platform and have honed the processes and controls that extract critical data and ease the burden of an otherwise time-consuming and document-heavy process. And it means that your data is not sent out to a third party provider, but remains in one location.