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Taft

Litigation: General Commercial

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Taft

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About

Provided by Taft

Taft’s Chicago litigation team, which consists of nearly 45 practitioners, brings significant experience and bench strength in:

 

  • Appellate law
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences litigation
  • Construction litigation
  • Complex civil litigation
  • Class actions for securities and derivative litigation, and employment-related matters
  • Defense of claims against municipal governmental entities
  • Professional negligence
  • Privacy and data security regulations and litigation
  • Financial services litigation

Our key types of work include Antitrust, Securities, Health Care, Public Corruption, Banking, Environmental, and Tax cases – all areas where we can draw on the subject-matter expertise and intellectual firepower of our colleagues in Taft’s other practices.

Chambers Review

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Litigation: General Commercial - Illinois

Band 5

Band 5


What the Team is Known For

Taft is a highly regarded commercial litigation practice, with experience handling contractual, trade secrets and privacy-related disputes. The firm enjoys a fine reputation for representing clients across a variety of industries including manufacturing, retail and life sciences.

Work Highlights

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  • Taft represented Crash Champions in a trade secrets dispute against competitor, Carstar.

Strengths

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  • The lawyers in different subject matter areas are high quality. They are never out of depth.

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  • They are very thorough in their responses.

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  • Everyone we have worked with at Taft has been smart, communicative and efficient. I know I can trust their work product and advice.

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  • They have excellent subject matter expertise.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 4Ian H. Fisher
    Band 4Ian H. Fisher

    Ian H. Fisher

    Ian Fisher maintains a strong reputation for his counsel on commercial litigation and has notable expertise advising clients on real estate, antitrust and trade secrets-related matters.

    • Ian is just really special. What distinguishes him is he can see the forest from the trees and can see business objectives from the risk.

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    • He is really a good problem-solver. He is practical, pragmatic and responsive.

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    • He stays on top of industry trends, litigation developments and regulatory changes and works this into legal advice and has his finger on the pulse.

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