Trial and Appellate Litigation Waller Lansden's Trial and Appellate practice reflects the firm's tradition of experience and excellence dating back to the firm's founding in 1905. Over the past 100 years, we have successfully represented clients in courts across the country - protecting their interests, defending their rights, and earning their trust. Our trial and appellate attorneys have collective experience in virtually every substantive area of business law and have achieved national recognition in several core areas, including antitrust, banking and financial services, class actions, commercial litigation, environmental and toxic torts, healthcare, intellectual property, labor and employment, products liability, and securities. We value that track record and build upon it each day.
Our trial and appellate lawyers are talented and experienced. During our 100 years of practice, we have included former and future judges, former and current law professors, former state and federal judicial clerks, former Assistant United States Attorneys, former Tennessee Attorneys General, and Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers. We provide extensive trial practice training to our lawyers from the start of their careers, in addition to conveying our expectations and our approach with respect to client service goals and the achievement of superior results. We also attract to our practice group experienced trial lawyers who have achieved notable careers with other private firms throughout the country. We have broad and diverse talents and experience. In matters of critical significance, issues of strategic importance, and bet-the-company litigation, we focus on and strive to achieve the goals of our clients. Successful results depend upon direct, candid, and frequent communication between client and attorneys. Starting with initial meetings and investigations, to pretrial preparation, and continuing through each phase of trial and appeal, our attorneys first will understand and then strive at all times to reconcile client business goals with the demands of litigation. Our trial attorneys analyze and place legal conflicts in their proper context early, which often leads to favorable resolution of many disputes through negotiation or alternative dispute resolution long before trial. Other disputes, however, require resolution in the courts. Each course of action has its merits. Our job is to help a client determine which resolution technique is most appropriate in a given situation, and then achieve the desired result consistent with the client's business needs. We do not take this goal lightly. We are vigorous advocates for our clients. Through meticulous trial preparation, we frequently obtain favorable pretrial resolution for our clients. When litigation is the favored course, trial is the appropriate goal, or an acceptable settlement cannot be reached, Waller Lansden utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach to meet the litigation goals of our clients. This approach merges litigation experience, comprehensive knowledge of specific substantive areas of business law, and dedication to achieving successful outcomes. We provide strict attention to achieving efficiencies through proper staffing ratios of members, associates, and paralegals, and pride ourselves on staying within a client-approved budget. We staff matters for client needs, not ours. To serve our clients most effectively, the Trial and Appellate Group is comprised of litigation subgroups, an organizational approach that promotes the development of progressive, creative, and cost-effective strategies based on collective experience and a thorough understanding of each client's business and the substantive law that affects those businesses. The subgroups allow us to create, maintain, and deliver the depth of knowledge, skill, and responsiveness that clients expect and deserve. Like our clients, we abhor the time and expense of merely "processing" litigation. We strive for and routinely obtain results. |