The Litigation attorneys at Bilzin Sumberg have extensive experience in complex commercial litigation. We pride ourselves in providing a broad-based civil trial and litigation practice that represents clients from a wide array of industries, including construction, real estate development, health care, technology, manufacturing, retail and more. We offer our clients full service from litigation analysis to arbitration or mediation to trial and appeal. No matter the course of action required for a particular matter, our attorneys have the depth and breadth of experience to meet our clients' needs.

Unlike many law firm litigation departments, most of our attorneys have substantial trial experience, including jury and non-jury trials. We fully prepare and guide our clients through trial, and we take over trial-ready cases from other lawyers. We represent clients in all Florida state, federal and appellate courts. Our trial practice is national in scope, and we have appeared in federal courts in over a dozen states including Delaware, California, Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and Pennsylvania, to name a few.

Bilzin Sumberg attorneys frequently represent developers in issues that arise out of the real estate development process, including disputes involving development rights, zoning, title issues, joint ventures and partnerships, easements and covenants, adverse possession, brokerage claims and Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act.

Bilzin Sumberg represents clients in all aspects of securities litigation, including individual suits and class actions under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company and Investment Advisors Acts of 1940 and a variety of state laws, internal corporate and audit committee investigations, SEC enforcement proceedings and investigations, and NASD and NYSE arbitrations.

Our attorneys have substantial experience in analyzing insurance policies for coverage. We represent clients directly on coverage claims or advise clients concerning coverage on pending claims.

Our Litigation attorneys have extensive and practical knowledge of construction logistics including scheduling, coordination, methods, change order analysis and day to day management for projects ranging from hi-rise development to multi-community residential development, which enables us to provide key advice before and during project implementation in an effort to solve or mitigate issues and avoid disputes. When disputes arise, we handle design defect, construction defect and delay claims, cost overruns and all facets of surety and bond litigation. We defend developers at turnover on homeowner and condominium association claims based on construction defects, failure to deliver a project per the plans and specifications, and accounting claims involving deficit funding. The firm has associated itself with a diversified group of industry experts to provide litigation support for construction inspection and analysis, scheduling, design review, cost estimating/auditing, building code interpretation and other studies.

Approaching arbitration from a litigation perspective, Bilzin Sumberg's Litigation Group represents clients across many major industry sectors. Providing advocacy counsel in matters that range from arbitration, mediation, early neutral evaluation and conciliation, the firm's Litigation attorneys are highly experienced representing clients before the American Arbitration Association and various international tribunals.

Our attorneys have successfully represented clients in a wide range of complex antitrust matters. The scale of our antitrust litigation practice allows us to handle a wide range of matters involving multi-state and international issues initiated by private parties as well as governmental agencies, from the trial stage through all levels of appeal. Clients benefit from the team's depth of experience in all aspects of antitrust law in a wide range of industries.

Bilzin Sumberg has represented developers, auto manufacturers, insurers, manufacturers, hospitals, drug companies and investors, among others, in a wide range of class action suits, including securities, toxic mold, construction defects and product liability claims.

Our Litigation Group handles multi-million foreclosure and receivership cases, working closely with our Restructuring and Bankruptcy as well as Real Estate Groups. We recently represented a national banking lender in foreclosure of six separate properties, in two states, on defaults aggregating more than $150 million.

Bilzin Sumberg has a proven ability to represent clients before a wide array of federal and state administrative agencies, whether in contested administrative hearings and appeals, agency rulemaking proceedings or regulatory enforcement actions. We have the requisite legal experience, key government contacts and knowledge of our clients' businesses to achieve their objectives in the most efficient manner possible. We have significant experience in disputes involving the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Resolution Trust Corporation and the U.S. Department of Transportation.

We have represented technology and manufacturing companies in numerous disputes involving non-compete, non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreements, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, licensing agreements, patent infringement and patent monopolization. We have successfully obtained injunctions in numerous matters involving breaches of contracts and infringements, and we have defended companies against infringement claims.

Representing clients in a myriad of corporate governance disputes, Bilzin Sumberg attorneys have extensive experience in arbitration and litigation dealing with internal organizational disputes and acts of malfeasance for majority and minority shareholders, partners, trustees, executives, officers and directors of public and closely held corporations. We develop innovative strategies to resolve a broad range of issues, including shareholder derivative suits, fiduciary liability suits, corporate control disputes, operating agreement disputes and corporate "divorce."

We have extensive experience in evaluating and litigating payment and performance bond claims on behalf of developers and against surety companies. Our construction attorneys are uniquely qualified in the drafting and negotiation of payment and performance bonds, analyzing bond claims so as to enable our clients to properly and timely invoke the obligations of the surety under the bonds, and litigating against sureties when sureties fail to perform their bond obligations. Our attorneys also have extensive experience in working with surety companies in takeover situations.

Bilzin Sumberg attorneys have extensive experience in representing local, regional and national financial institutions in litigation and creditors' rights matters. Our knowledge of bank operations and lending practices enables us to handle the most complex cases involving lender liability claims, multinational contract disputes, mortgage actions, loan workouts, judicial and non-judicial foreclosures, disputes involving letters of credit, commercial paper disputes and fraudulent transfers.

Bilzin Sumberg handles its own appellate work, and has argued appeals in all appellate levels in Florida, including the Florida Supreme Court, and many federal circuit appeals courts throughout the United States. In fact, our attorneys handled the trial and appeal that set the standard for diversity jurisdiction in class action cases in relation to the amount in controversy by plaintiffs in the Eleventh Circuit.

Bilzin Sumberg represents developers in enforcing real estate purchase contracts that are being challenged by purchasers under the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act. In this rapidly developing area of the law, the lawyers at Bilzin Sumberg have been instrumental in obtaining recent legal decisions which have been favorable to developers.

Our litigation attorneys provide clients with a unique combination of skills, experience and resources to resolve complex disputes that arise in the health care industry. Our group has experience with payer-provider disputes, Stark, False Claims Act (including qui tam suits) and civil monetary penalty audits, investigations and proceedings.

Bilzin Sumberg has represented airlines and manufacturers in a wide range of litigation, including accidents, business and regulatory disputes, unfair competition claims and airport redevelopment disputes.

Our Litigation attorneys have extensive experience in handling various types of litigation that arise during a bankruptcy proceeding. We have prosecuted and defended adversary proceedings and contested matters on behalf of debtors-in-possession, creditors committees, third-party creditors and chapter 11 trustees. Such actions range from simple preference and fraudulent transfer claims to more complex matters involving multi-jurisdictional claims, and even resolving international disputes in the context of U.S. bankruptcies.

The attorneys in our Litigation Group combine their substantive experience in land use, real estate development, and zoning controversies with courtroom experience at the state, federal and appellate court levels as well as through arbitration proceedings when possible and consistent with our clients' interests.

Bilzin Sumberg has represented individuals and companies in eminent domain and condemnation actions throughout the State of Florida. These representations have included numerous private property owners in matters of eminent domain, inverse condemnation, pre-condemnation planning and regulatory takings.

Working closely with the Land Use & Government Relations Group, Bilzin Sumberg's Environmental litigation team has the breath and depth to meet almost every environmental challenge with a full range of alternative dispute resolution techniques as well as litigation. From toxic tort litigation, recovery actions, governmental enforcement actions, natural resources damage, product liability and citizen suits, our Litigation attorneys understand the intricacies of federal and state requirements.

Bilzin Sumberg attorneys have extensive product liability experience in a wide variety of industries involving claims of manufacturing defect, design defect and failure to warn. In addition, the firm has defended tort, statutory and other consumer claims (including class actions) arising out of consumer products, transportation and industrial accidents and environmental releases.