BDR Practice Areas
Specific Areas of Expertise.
Commercial Litigation: Contract disputes, business purchase and sale disputes, shareholder and partnership disagreements, cases involving land use or environmental issues.
Personal Injury: From basic slip-and-fall litigation to industrial accidents, product liability cases, personal injuries, motor vehicle mishaps, air accidents and injuries at sea.
Professional Negligence: Medical, legal, accounting, engineering and architectural malpractice, for example.
Neutral Case Evaluation: We examine a litigation in process and provide an informed opinion as to likely outcomes or settlement strategies.
Real Estate Disputes: Property boundary disputes, residential and commercial purchase and sale disputes, and disputes between real estate agents / brokers and homeowners; also claims against lenders or borrowers, including class action suits against lenders for discriminatory lending practices.
Maritime Litigation: Disputes over cargo, collisions, environmental issues such as spills, salvage rights issues, and other contractual disputes.
Trust and Estate Litigation: Contested wills, issues over fiduciary responsibility, and disputes over executor / trustee performance.
Class Actions: Especially wage and hour disputes and shareholder actions.
Employment Litigation: Wrongful dismissal, discrimination on the basis on age, sex or ethnicity, and sexual harassment cases; also hostile work environment, wage and hour disputes.
Construction Litigation: Commercial or residential contract and / or construction defect disputes of all types.
Intellectual Property: Trademark and patent disputes; software licensing and source code ownership disputes; copyright issues.
Neutral Investigation & Fact-Finding: We work to determine the facts of a dispute and submit an objective report to the hiring party.