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Latham & Watkins LLP

Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite

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Latham & Watkins LLP

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Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Latham & Watkins LLP offers a formidable litigation practice with strengths across the full array of complex commercial litigation. The firm possesses considerable expertise at trial, adeptly handling high-stakes business disputes, class actions and multidistrict litigation. Its experience spans high profile bankruptcy, insurance, shareholder and product liability suits. The department acts for an impressive client roster spanning the finance, life sciences and technology sectors, supported by a deep bench and global reach.

Notable practitioners

Steve Feldman is global chair of the firm's complex commercial litigation practice. He is based in New York.

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Work Highlights

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  • Latham & Watkins LLP represented Whaleco d/b/a Temu in two putative class actions in California involving broad allegations of consumer protection violations related to Temu’s strikethrough pricing practices.

Strengths

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  • Latham & Watkins is the best law firm. They are truly platinum grade. They are unbelievably thorough, strategic and intelligent.

    Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite respondentUSA

  • Latham & Watkins can provide both the breadth and depth of legal expertise we need to handle big-dollar, complex civil litigation matters with multijurisdictional components. The lawyers have deep expertise and the breadth of trial experience necessary to formulate and execute winning strategies with trial in mind. Its attention to detail is top notch and provides a lot of confidence that the matter is being properly handled both big picture and day to day.

    Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite respondentUSA

  • The firm's partners are great generals who can lay out strong strategic plans, while its associates are first-rate, extremely intelligent and hardworking.

    Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite respondentUSA

  • Latham & Watkins is not only fluent in the law, but is able to provide pragmatic solution-oriented advice to clients' fact patterns. The firm has a very impressive and experienced litigation track record. Responses are immediate and substantive, and its attorneys seek to gain an in-depth understanding of a client's business.

    Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite respondentUSA

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