"litigation, n: a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights." The real contest is knowing the best way to resolve the dispute. We pick winning strategies to achieve the client’s desired business result.

Litigation is rarely desirable but often unavoidable. When the chips are down, our clients look to us to make litigation work for them. What they invariably want is aggressive, innovative, and successful representation that is also strategic and sensible – with the end game and the cost-benefit calculation always kept firmly in mind.

We are strategic in our organizational approach. What differentiates our group is the breadth of our practice and our devotion to the ideal of the lean machine. While more than 65 Arent Fox attorneys practice commercial litigation, we never just throw bodies at a case in a vain effort to win by weight. Bigger cases naturally require more lawyers but too many lawyers and paralegals can gum up the works and drive up the costs. We relentlessly focus on where the client wants to go and the straightest and most cost-effective path to get there.

Our geographic reach is national and international. Our forum embraces both the traditional – federal and state courts and regulatory agencies – and the alternative, including arbitration, mediation, and various combinations of the two. Our substantive experience is extremely broad. Whether it is a garden variety contract dispute or a bet the company case, we have successfully litigated it.