Here are our practice areas: 

• Corporate and Business:  We help our clients decide on the best type of business entity and prepare and file the legal documentation that is necessary to actually start doing business.  We draft a huge variety of contracts, leases, options, correspondences, legal opinions, and other documents that businesses need to operate.  We also have extensive experience with governance of non-profit organizations.
• Customs, Export, International Trade, and Transportation:  We are known throughout our world for excelling in these areas.  We have represented hundreds of companies before US Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Industry and Security, and many other federal and state agencies.  We are especially apt at handling trade compliance emergencies, such as fines, penalties, forfeitures, and seizures, prior disclosures, voluntary prior disclosures, and protests.  We have unique experience with Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs), bonded warehouses, free trade areas, antidumping, and C-TPAT.  We represent importers, manufacturers, customs brokers, freight forwarders, shippers, and transportation companies.  We tailor compliance training for our clients and periodically make presentation to trade groups across the country.  
• Commercial Litigation:  We litigated hundreds of lawsuits in state and federal courts and collected millions of dollars for our business clients.  We also defended individuals and companies successfully and negotiated settlements on favorable terms for our clients.  Because we appreciate that litigation is expensive, we design litigation budgets and plans to empower our clients to know what costs to expect and when.  We keep litigation costs, making sure that you do not get "sticker shock" and that you are charged solely for the costs you agreed to pay.
• Intellectual Property Disputes:   Cases are increasingly bound up in some way with intellectual property issues such as copyright, trademark, licensing, and grey market goods.  Holders of Intellectual Property Rights increasingly work through the federal government to better protect their interests and to proceed against violators.  We represent these parties as well as the parties accused of infringing on intellectual property rights.