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Destination: Business Litigation

Department Attorneys

Partners

William F. Savino - Chair

Franklin W. Heller

Daniel F. Brown

Edward P. Yankelunas

Stephen M. O'Neill

Christopher A. Cardillo

Beth Ann Bivona

Brian D. Gwitt

Special Counsel

Randolph C. Oppenheimer

Bernard Schenkler

Associates

Jennifer M. Catherine

Amber E. Storr

Gregory Zini

Recent Seminars

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Business and Corporate - Business Litigation and Insolvency - General Litigation

Labor and Employment - Probate, Trust and Estate - Real Estate and Banking

Business Litigation & Insolvency Department

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Damon & Morey’s Business Litigation & Insolvency Department was formed to address the special needs businesses develop when they are embroiled in disputes with other businesses. Our attorneys understand not only businesses and business law, but also the intricacies of how to best enforce and collect the judgments we recover.

Our practice involves the disputes that arise between businesses, shareholders, investors, business partners, and their competitors. Major areas include:

Corporate governance litigation including corporate and partnership dissolution
Bankruptcy cases including Chapter 11 reorganizations, debtors, Creditors Committees, trustees and secured and unsecured creditors
Construction litigation representing owners, architects, engineers, contractors, subcontractors, materialmen and bonding companies
Uniform Commercial Code matters including disputes over the sales of goods, checks and promissory notes, and secured transactions
Disputes over intellectual property
Violation of non-competition and confidentiality agreements
Pursuing and defending provisional remedies (i.e., injunction, receivership, attachment)
Mortgage foreclosure and collection including both commercial and consumer accounts

Understanding that each attorney has specific areas of concentration, we assign matters to the attorney best able to resolve your issue. Additionally, we tailor our staffing based on the complexity, urgency, and exposure involved. By calling on our team’s full range of knowledge and experience, we create a unique level of flexibility which enables our attorneys to efficiently and cost-effectively handle consumer collections while also pursuing complex litigation involving tens of millions of dollars.

Our departmental attorneys have a proud history of representing clients in state, federal and bankruptcy courts as well as in commercial and construction alternative dispute resolution. Our experienced attorneys proceed to trial or arbitration when an acceptable settlement can not be reached.

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