Litigation involves special skills which are learned in large part through experience. Among those skills are the ability to marshal facts, identify issues, and present the law and the facts persuasively in court or other tribunals. Frequently, the expense of litigation requires the common sense necessary to bring about the successful resolution of disputes without exhausting a client´s resources.

Wright, Constable & Skeen, L.L.P. has a number of attorneys with experience in the process of litigation before state trial and appellate courts, the trial, bankruptcy, tax, and appellate courts of the federal system, and federal and state administrative agencies and commissions. To assure that the firm´s lawyers keep pace with developments in the law, the litigation section meets regularly to review recent decisions, to share experiences and to discuss cases to bring the collective experience of the group to bear on a particular client´s problem. Each attorney takes continuing legal education courses and shares the benefits with the section.

WC&S attorneys have extensive litigation experience in the following areas of concentration:

• Commercial: matters under the Uniform Commercial Code, enforcement of restrictive employment covenants, prevention of trade secret disclosure and prosecution and defense of business contracts and torts.
• Banking and Bankruptcy: creditors´ rights, mortgage foreclosure, lien priority, preferences, fraudulent transfers and related matters, collection of accounts and bankruptcy proceedings, including Chapter 11 reorganization.
• Torts, Insurance and Products Liability: insurance defense of personal injury, death, property damage and casualty claims; pursuit of subrogation claims in property and casualty areas, particularly fire damage claims, defense of "bad faith" claims against insurers; defense of mass tort claims in the products liability area; plaintiffs´ negligence actions involving personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and products liability.
• Admiralty and Maritime: actions relating to commercial and recreational vessels, including vessel arrests and attachments, commercial disputes relating to charters, contracts, mortgage foreclosures, maritime claims in bankruptcy, collision, products liability, personal injury and death claims, cargo and property damage defense and subrogation claims
• Railroad Transportation and Warehousing: railroad cargo loss and property damage, FELA, passenger personal injury, rate and tariff enforcement, real estate and other commercial disputes; with regard to trucking concerns and freight forwarders, both local and interstate, experience includes the liability aspects of intermodal transport and warehousing.
• Tax and Securities: civil and criminal securities and tax controversies, tax litigation practice before the Collection, Examination, Criminal Investigation and appellate Divisions of the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. and Maryland tax courts and the United States District Court.
• Employer-employee Relations: NLRB election proceedings, unfair labor practice charges, arbitration of contractual labor disputes, employment discrimination charges, wage and hour matters, occupational safety and health matters, workers´ compensation, unemployment insurance claims and wrongful termination.
• Estates and Trusts: actions by or against personal representatives including will caveats and trust beneficiary actions.
• Environmental Matters: actions before administrative agencies relating to pollution, water rights and toxic torts.
• Domestic and Family Law: pre-nuptial agreements, divorce, child custody, support and visitation, adoption, juvenile proceedings, name change, and paternity.
• Construction Law
• Criminal Law: all aspects of criminal litigation before all state courts and the United States District court including representation of individuals and companies charged with "white collar" offenses.
• Intellectual Property: copyright, trademark and trade secret matters in both state and federal courts.
• Professional Liability: defense of lawyers, accountants, architects, engineers, real estate agents and brokers, insurance agents and brokers, real estate appraisers, and other professionals.

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