Litigation

Sheppard Mullin's Litigation Practice involves virtually all aspects of business and commercial litigation, including antitrust, creditors' rights, banking and financial institutions, construction, communications, general business, insurance, intellectual property, products liability, professional liability defense, real estate, environmental, securities, white collar criminal defense, and trust and estate litigation.

Our litigators represent clients in a broad spectrum of industries such as computers and information technology, financial services, aerospace, manufacturing, transportation, communications, pharmaceuticals, advertising, print and broadcast media, franchising, petroleum production and refining, real estate, insurance, construction, and food and beverage manufacturing, among others.

The attorneys in our Litigation Practice have substantial experience in a wide variety of vehicles for dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, and mediation.

Recognition

• Corporate Counsel Magazine Recognizes Sheppard Mullin As Fortune 500 "Go-To" Law Firm, 2009
• Corporate Counsel Magazine Recognizes Sheppard Mullin As Fortune 500 "Go-To" Law Firm, 2007
• American Lawyer Media Recognizes Sheppard Mullin As Financial Services Companies' "Go-To" Law Firm, 2007

Articles

• Top Women Litigators: Leaps of Faith
  May 10, 2007, Daily Journal
• Federal Litigators Face New Burdens in E-Data Discovery
  October 10, 2006
• In L.A., An Insurance Trial Can Take a Film Noir Turn
  October 10, 2006
• Delaware Decision in Disney Sets Forth Parameters for Duty of Good Faith
  September 25, 2006
• Courts Cling to Tradition on CAFA Removal Burden
  May 15, 2006
• 'Pound' Asserts a Strict Line in Successive Representations
  April 24, 2006
• Who Protects the Intellectual Property of your Business?
  April 10, 2006
• Courts Need to Constrain Fiduciary Duty to Narrow Class of Relationships
  April 6, 2006
• Forum Selection Clauses
  April 3, 2006
• Law is in Flux Over Internal Governance of Foreign Firms
  March 31, 2006
• Money Matters
  March 2, 2006
• Trends in Real Estate and Title Insurance
  November 28, 2005
• Supreme Court Gets Into Split Over Class-Action Arbitrations
  July 12, 2005
• Mocking Juries
  April 27, 2005
• Parry the Arbitrary
  April 27, 2005
• Case Tests Validity of Class Action Waiver in Arbitration
  April 15, 2005
• The Year in Review: Annual Construction Law Update
  April 1, 2005
• Unfair-Competition Law Reform May Encourage Class Actions
  August 25, 2004
• Consumer Protection Act Brings the Fight to Absentee Cybersquatters
  July 8, 2004
• Ninth Circuit Curtails Enforceability of Mandatory Employment Arbitration Agreements
  May 30, 2003
• Loosening the Ties That Bind
  February 6, 2003
• Sheppard Mullin Lands Entertainment Group
  January 27, 2003
• The Internet May Take You Places To Defend A Lawsuit, But Not To California
  January 6, 2003
• Commercial Landlords/Business Operators Beware: Legislature Quadruples Statutory Damage Award Available For Violations Of ADA
  February 15, 2002
• Recent California Decision Highlights Uncertainty of Internet Law
  September 24, 2001
• Read My Mind - The Perils of Surfing the Web at Work
  June 26, 2000
• New Protections That Shift The Balance Toward Companies
  May 30, 2000
• Ten Tips To Reduce Your Legal Expenses
  May 15, 2000
• Keeping A Clean House
  March 18, 2000
• Antitrust Considerations In Establishing Medical Provider Networks
  December 13, 1999
• Getting A Fair Shake
  November 11, 1999
• The Microsoft Case - Exclusionary Innovention
  November 10, 1998
• Litigation in the Year 2000 and Beyond -- What Lies Ahead?
  June 10, 1998
• Competition Implications of the California Supreme Court Decision in ABC International Traders, Inc.
  February 27, 1997