Litigation: Tort & Insurance Defense

The firm’s litigation and appellate practice spans all substantive legal fields. Seasoned trial lawyers, e-discovery experts, and accomplished writers of legal briefs regularly team with experienced substantive law attorneys from across the firm to deliver high quality legal services to clients needing effective representation in state and federal courts, arbitrations, and administrative proceedings.

In all litigated matters, look to Stites & Harbison to:

·        Formulate sophisticated and effective litigation strategies

·        Understand and persuasively argue key legal issues

·        Identify, manage, and know the contents of relevant documents

·        Conduct effective and savvy e-discovery

·        Protect privileged, proprietary or confidential information

·        Ensure that good faith discovery responses are accurate and uniform

·        Prepare all witnesses for optimal deposition performance

·        Create and maintain databases and literature files

·        Identify knowledgeable and effective experts

·        Challenge or discredit unreliable or unscientific testimony

·        Use the latest courtroom technology and persuasion techniques with judges and juries

·        Analyze appellate issues and craft high-level, readable appellate briefs