Class action litigation and arbitration can pose a tremendous threat to even the most respected and financially stable companies. A prompt, carefully constructed and thorough response plan is paramount to protecting your interests. From the moment a suit is threatened, Morris Legal, LLC’s Team can guide you through the cumbersome and high-stakes process, whether it involves settlement, litigation or arbitration in the United States or abroad.

Experience Spanning Multiple Industries and Issues

Our team defends clients across a wide range of industries on a diverse array of issues, including mass torts, consumer law, employment law, securities class action litigation and environmental matters. Our clients include companies of all sizes that operate in the Unites States and around the world in fields such as accounting, banking, food and beverage, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retailing, securities, telecommunications, transportation and travel.

Proactive Crisis Management to Achieve Your Objectives

Often, a swiftly implemented crisis communication plan can mean the difference between a positive and a negative outcome. Our Communications Team can assist you in rapidly addressing issues that arise throughout the course of class action suits, including reputation protection, spokesperson preparation, risk assessments, simulation exercises, high profile media relations, vigilant mainstream and on-line media monitoring and rapid response to inaccuracies or misleading information. Working collaboratively with you, we address all requirements of the situation, from litigation communications to Congressional testimony.

Planning for a Positive Outcome

Once a class action suit is filed, our team can help you plan how best to respond, including strategies for potentially avoiding or limiting the suit. From the outset of each case, we work closely with you to determine your desired results, evaluate the risks and devise the most effective strategy to support your business goals. Our approach is to limit your exposure and cost through meticulous planning, careful budgeting and steady reevaluation throughout the course of the matter. Our focus is always on achieving the best business result for you, whether that entails litigating the matter through trial and appeal or achieving a prompt and advantageous settlement.

Our Appellate attorneys assist clients with all appellate-related aspects of litigation. We regularly undertake full responsibility for handling appeals; on other occasions, we advise our colleagues and clients on how best to conduct their own appellate work.

In appellate work, as in all the litigation and dispute resolution services of our litigators, our focus is on applying the full resources of the firm in the most efficient and cost-effective manner to meet your needs. Where necessary, our representation can include a team of attorneys that efficiently blend appellate and trial experience from a cross-section of disciplines and industry groups. In appropriate matters, our Appellate attorneys are involved in strategizing during all phases of the litigation process, in order to ensure that the case is best positioned for appellate success even while pursuing effective dispute resolution in trial.

We have handled appeals in a variety of areas:

Antitrust: We have extensive experience litigating at trial and on appeal a broad variety of significant antitrust and competition matters. Between our Antitrust and antitrust Appellate attorneys, we have argued or briefed nearly every type of significant antitrust case.

Bankruptcy: We have represented a range of parties — creditors’ committees, liquidating trustees, and debtors — in appeals involving asset sales, breach of fiduciary duty, and summary judgment rulings.

Distribution and franchise issues: We have successfully represented clients in a range of litigation and appeals, including major retail and distribution organizations, on such issues as ground-breaking employment law, and distribution and franchise rights.

Product liability: Our team has briefed and argued issues in toxic tort and product liability litigation in appellate courts at a number of levels. These issues include class certification and mass consolidation matters, preemption, the standards for the admissibility of scientific evidence, and punitive damages. We also regularly work with trial counsel to assist in the briefing of such issues at the trial level, as well as to assist with trial strategy.

Securities: Our Appellate attorneys have successfully opposed the certification of consumer class actions in numerous state, federal, and international jurisdictions and tribunals.

Legislation and Policy:

The collective experience and knowledge of our government relations practitioners have proven invaluable in addressing the complex legal and public policy issues faced by our clients. This experience and knowledge shape policy development and decision-making and guide the effective communication of our clients’ interests.

On behalf of these clients, we:

• Develop and coordinate advocacy strategies and messages
• Engage client’s government affairs programs in direct advocacy with decision makers
• Draft and analyze legislation and proposed rules
• Assist in forming and managing coalitions
• Counsel clients regarding compliance with laws and regulations

Global Projects:

Government influence on business at all levels is a given today. Virtually every significant decision affecting business, whether a merger, public-private partnership, construction project, major contract or important dispute, has a government or public policy component. For example, all modes of transportation are regulated; pipelines need government approvals and extensive coordination with officials at all levels; international trade involves licenses, tariffs, government approvals and government prohibitions; mergers and acquisitions face governmental antitrust scrutiny on a global basis. Clients turn to Morris Legal, LLC., for more than traditional transactional and litigation services.