Denver business and commercial litigation attorneys
Contract fights, partnership break-ups, trade secrets, and the shareholder disputes that decide who controls a company. This is the practice the firm was built around, and roughly forty of these matters have gone to verdict or arbitration award since 1998.
What we handle
Most of what arrives here is a commercial relationship that has stopped working: a supply agreement one side has walked away from, two founders who read the same operating agreement differently, a departing executive who took the customer list with them. The legal theory varies. The commercial problem underneath it rarely does.
- Breach of contract, and the warranty fights that follow a closing
- Shareholder, member and partnership disputes, including judicial dissolution
- Trade secrets, and the restrictive covenants that travel with them
- Fiduciary duty claims against officers, directors and managers
- Business torts — interference, misrepresentation, civil theft
How a case runs
We tell you in the first meeting which parts of your case are weak. That is not modesty; it is the only way to price a matter honestly, and the only way to know whether the sensible ending is a settlement in month seven or a verdict in month twenty. Clients tell us it is the thing nobody had done for them before.
Discovery is run by the people who will argue the case, not handed down a chain. A record built by someone who knows it will be argued reads differently on appeal, and appeals stay in-house here for exactly that reason.
What it costs
Fixed fees for defined phases, with a written estimate before each one. Clients who have to take a number to a board get a number they can take to a board. Where a matter genuinely cannot be phased we say so, rather than quoting one that will not survive contact with the case.