Litigation: Mainly Plaintiffs

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Provided by Fishman Haygood LLP

Our firm regularly represents clients in various types of litigation: 

• Commercial: Breach of contract, products liability, construction defect, unfair trade practices, non-competition, breaches of fiduciary duty, construction, tax, business torts, and receivership cases
• Environmental: Represents private landowners and governmental entities seeking to restore land loss caused by pipeline canals across Louisiana; represents landowners in oil and gas plug and abandonment and equipment removal cases; has obtained favorable outcomes in multiple actions brought on behalf of clients whose private property has been contaminated by oil and gas exploration and production activities
• Class Actions: Plaintiff and defense side
• Securities Litigation & Arbitration: Represents states, municipalities, pensions, hospitals, and high net worth individual plaintiffs; also represent investors in court or in arbitration proceedings administered by FINRA, JAMS, or AAA
• Tax: Represents the Louisiana Dept. of Revenue in cases seeking to collect corporate income, franchise, and sales taxes
• First Amendment & Media Law: Louisiana’s "go-to" firm
• Post-Bankruptcy Specialty Litigation: Asserts claims on behalf of liquidating companies, bankruptcy trustees, or assigning creditors against officers and directors of the defunct company; also asserts Debtor’s claims against third parties
• Private International Arbitrations: Represents claimants before the International Chamber of Commerce, UNCITRAL, and ICSID