What We Do

Trials

We try cases, in court and in arbitrations. And we prepare every case for trial from day one. Trial-ready counsel changes a case long before the trial date. It brings the other side to the table and makes pretrial resolutions possible that otherwise would not be.

Appeals

An appeal is a different proceeding from the trial that produced it. The record is closed, the audience is a panel that will spend a few hours with a case you have lived with for years, and the argument that won or lost below is often not the argument that decides the appeal. We handle appeals whether or not we tried the case below.

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Arbitration is its own practice, and we treat it that way. The procedures are streamlined and specialized, and the forum has customs of its own. Your ultimate audience is another lawyer, not a jury. And the arbitrator who will decide whether you win or lose also manages the entire case, from the first scheduling conference through the final hearing, so credibility with the tribunal is built from day one.

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We represent individuals and businesses in high-stakes commercial disputes, from pre-dispute strategy and negotiations through trial. That includes partnership and ownership fights, corporate governance deadlocks, breach of contract, and disputes arising out of deals that fell apart. We’re here when a dispute has hit a sticking point or when the other side has retained a large firm. We offer the background and high-level lawyering expected from a large firm and the agility and efficiency of a small firm.

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Entertainment & Media

We represent talent and creators against large entertainment companies. We are experienced in taking on sensitive and high-profile cases. Most of our work is about making sure our clients get paid what the deal promised: profit participation and contingent compensation, backend accounting, and the most-favored-nation and good faith negotiation provisions that determine what a participation is actually worth. We also handle other contract disputes, and we work alongside transactional counsel whose clients have a dispute they are seeking to resolve without litigation.

First Amendment & Defamation

We represent speakers. Writers, filmmakers, journalists, performers, and other creators, and the studios, networks, and publishers that produce and distribute their work, face defamation claims, retaliation for what they have said and published, and government efforts to regulate speech. So do political consultants, campaigns, elected officials, and nonprofits whose speech is part of their work. We defend those claims, challenge retaliation and restrictions on speech, and protect clients’ First Amendment rights when private litigants or government investigators seek their internal communications. Some of this work happens before anything is filed: a review before publication or release can identify potential liability and ways to reduce it.

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We litigate elections. Ballot access and election administration, recounts and contests, constitutional and statutory challenges to voting rules, First Amendment challenges to regulation of political speech, and the campaign finance investigations and enforcement proceedings related to elections. Campaigns, committees, parties, candidates, nonprofits, consultants, and voters all face this work on timelines measured in hours or days. Our attorneys have handled it at that pace, repeatedly, and we know what a court can realistically be asked for on an emergency schedule.

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We defend individuals and companies in federal criminal investigations and prosecutions, conduct internal investigations, and represent plaintiffs whose constitutional rights have been violated by government actors. If you have received a subpoena, a target letter, or a civil investigative demand, if a regulator has opened an inquiry into your company, or if your board needs an investigation it can rely on, this is the work. On the plaintiff side, we represent people harmed by law enforcement, and we take those cases on contingency where the case supports it.

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