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Barack Ferrazzano is a Chicago-based law firm whose Litigation Group is regularly entrusted by some of the world's most prominent companies to handle their highest-stakes legal disputes. Founded in 1984 on a model built around lean, efficient teams rather than the traditional mega-firm approach, the firm has grown into a sophisticated practice serving a global client roster while retaining the responsiveness and cost-discipline that has defined it from the start.
The Litigation Group is built on seasoned partners paired with well-trained associates and litigation support teams, allowing the firm to staff even its largest matters efficiently. Rather than pursuing prolonged, expensive discovery as a default strategy, the group's attorneys are prepared to try cases when necessary but focus on achieving practical business resolutions as early and economically as possible. That efficiency is reinforced by the firm's in-house discovery technology and use of artificial intelligence to manage large volumes of data without inflating case teams.
The group's client base spans some of the most recognizable names in luxury goods, financial services, telecommunications, real estate investment trusts, motor vehicle manufacturing, private equity, and consumer goods. Its attorneys litigate in state and federal courts nationwide, at both the trial and appellate levels, and regularly draw on colleagues from the firm's corporate, real estate, and bankruptcy practices to build interdisciplinary teams for complex disputes — from shareholder rights litigation to takeover battles.
Key practice strengths include antitrust and commercial competition, biometric information privacy (including Illinois's BIPA), business litigation, class action defense, financial institutions litigation, insurance coverage disputes, intellectual property litigation, real estate disputes, and white collar defense and regulatory enforcement. The group also maintains a robust alternative dispute resolution practice, handling mediations, arbitrations, and settlement negotiations, alongside proactive strategic counseling aimed at minimizing clients' litigation exposure before disputes arise.
Recent successes reflect the breadth of that experience. The firm secured a full dismissal for Louis Vuitton and Loro Piana in a putative antitrust class action alleging wage-fixing among luxury retail employees, and won a Florida appellate reversal on behalf of Porsche. It also obtained dismissal of a BIPA class action against Christian Dior on statutory exemption grounds, and served as lead counsel for Audi and Volkswagen in a multi-year dealership rights dispute, prevailing across three separate appeals.
This track record has translated into sustained industry recognition. The Litigation Group holds an Illinois Band ranking from Chambers USA, national and Chicago-level recognition in Best Lawyers' "Best Law Firms," and has been named a Benchmark Litigation "Highly Recommended Firm," with a shortlist nod for Illinois Litigation Firm of the Year for multiple years. Individual partners have also appeared on Benchmark Litigation's 40 & Under list in multiple recent years, underscoring the depth of talent behind the group's senior leadership.
Robins Kaplan LLP is among the nation’s premier trial law firms, with 200 attorneys across seven major U.S. cities. For more than 85 years, our attorneys have been trusted to handle clients’ most consequential disputes — cases that shape industries, change business practices, and make new law. We litigate, mediate, and arbitrate complex matters across the country, always ready to take a case to trial when it matters most.
Our firm is defined by its trial strength. From courtroom victories to landmark settlements, we have built a national reputation for delivering meaningful, measurable results across industries. When huge forces are at play, major money is at stake, or rights are being tested, Robins Kaplan helps clients cut through complexity, get to the heart of the problem, and win what matters most.
We represent both plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation spanning antitrust and trade regulation, intellectual property and technology, business and commercial disputes, mass tort and personal injury litigation, medical malpractice, insurance and catastrophic loss, entertainment and media, health care, real estate, corporate governance, and appellate advocacy. We also have deep experience serving as national and lead trial counsel in multidistrict litigation and class actions.
Antitrust and Trade Regulation
Recognized by Chambers USA as “a powerhouse in the industry,” Robins Kaplan’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation Group has achieved landmark successes on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in some of the most significant antitrust cases ever litigated. With nearly $10 billion recovered for plaintiffs in recent years and a proven record defending Fortune 100 companies, the firm is regularly ranked among the nation’s top antitrust practices.
Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation
Our National Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation Group is widely recognized for extraordinary courtroom victories and strategic enforcement campaigns. We’ve secured multiple plaintiff recoveries exceeding $100 million and defended hundreds of millions in technology and brand investment. Representing clients from global technology leaders to emerging innovators and individual inventors, we handle matters involving patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, Hatch-Waxman litigation, and IP monetization.
Business and Commercial Litigation
Fortune 500 companies, midmarket enterprises, and entrepreneurs rely on Robins Kaplan to resolve mission-critical disputes efficiently and effectively. Our commercial litigators bring business acumen and trial-tested skill to complex cases involving contracts, fraud, fiduciary duties, and financial disputes. We also have a nationally recognized Government and Internal Investigations practice that advises corporations and individuals through regulatory inquiries, enforcement actions, and internal reviews.
Updated Nov 2025
Husch Blackwell’s litigators are active coast to coast, asserting and defending client interests in virtually all types of litigation. We feature more than 400 litigators across more than 20 offices across the United States and are capable of taking on the most complex matters, ranging from bet-the-company cases to large portfolios of litigation spread across multiple jurisdictions. Clients around the world trust us to understand their businesses, their objectives, and their unique ways of working and to develop solutions that are practical, efficient and comprehensive in scope.
The efficiency and effectiveness of our case management capabilities are well attested. Both in 2017, 2018, and 2022, our firm’s Litigation Department was honored by the Association of Corporate Counsel with its prestigious Value Champion award, an accolade that recognizes collaborations that delivered substantial value to client organizations by cutting spending, improving predictability and achieving better legal results. Again in 2020, Husch Blackwell was recognized for its litigation teams’ innovation and design excellence in legal operations by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), which chose the firm as a showcase firm for the 2020 Legal Innovation in Operations (LIO) Project designees. Husch Blackwell received the recognition on the basis of its management of a large portfolio of asbestos-related litigation for a client. In the ten months our team handled the portfolio, we posted results that vastly outperformed the client’s prior efforts, including over a 30 percent reduction in legal costs.
Area of practice:
- Antitrust & Competition
- Appellate
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets
- Class Action Defense
- Commercial Contracting
- Construction
- Consumer Financial Services
- Corporate
- Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Education
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Environmental
- ERISA & Employee Benefits
- Food Systems
- Government Contracts
- Healthcare Regulatory
- Insolvency & Commercial Bankruptcy
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- International Trade & Supply Chain
- Labor & Employment
- Life Sciences
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Political Ethics & Election Law
- Private Equity
- Product Liability & Toxic Torts
- Real Estate & Development
- Securities & Corporate Governance
- Tax
- Tax Credits
- Trusts & Estates
- White Collar, Internal Investigations & Compliance
Other offices:
- Austin, TX
- Boston
- Chattanooga, TN
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Denver
- Houston
- Jefferson City, MO
- Los Angeles
- Madison, WI
- Milwaukee
- Minneapolis
- Oakland, CA
- Nashville, TN
- Omaha, NE
- Phoenix
- Providence, RI
- St. Louis
- The Link Virtual Office
- Washington, D.C.
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Saul Ewing’s Litigation Department features approximately 200 attorneys across 18 offices, including our newest locations in Los Angeles and Irvine, California. We handle a wide range of matters including complex business and commercial disputes, bet-the-company legal proceedings, and high-profile cases in state and federal courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) forums across the nation. We represent local, regional, national and international organizations as well as individuals across a diverse array of industries, including but not limited to higher education, energy and environmental, manufacturing, financial and other professional services, construction, insurance, health care, food/beverage/agribusiness, life sciences, cannabis, sports/entertainment and real estate.
Our deep bench of litigators work to protect the interests of our clients and mitigate the impact of litigation on business operations in all phases of litigation, including investigation, pleadings, motions, fact and expert discovery and depositions, hearings, trials, appeals, settlement negotiations, and enforcement of judgments. Among our ranks are seasoned trial lawyers and former government officials and prosecutors, whose insight and strategic judgment are a valuable resource to our entire team.
Our core areas of focus include:
Consumer Financial Services Litigation
Employee Benefits & ERISA Litigation
Environmental Civil Litigation
Insurance Litigation & Arbitration
Intellectual Property Litigation
Title Claims & Coverage Litigation
White Collar & Government Enforcement
Within these core areas of focus, we have extensive experience representing clients in pursuing and defending claims of breach of contract, tortious interference with contracts and business relationships, fraud and misrepresentation, lender liability, property liability, negligence, unfair competition, unfair trade practices, antitrust violations, conspiracy, RICO violations, breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, trade disparagement, false advertising, malicious prosecution, theft of trade secrets, intellectual property infringement, trespass, conversion, trust and estate controversies, partnership and corporate dissolutions and claims arising in shareholder and partner derivative actions, among others.
Our Approach: We start by tailoring a strategy to meet our clients’ objectives and risk management priorities, whether those focus on litigation avoidance, early settlement, resolution through dispositive motions, or pursuing a case through adjudication at trial. Using early case assessment tools, we develop a detailed roadmap for each case. We recognize that litigation can be expensive, distracting and time-consuming, and that our clients need cost predictability. Depending on client needs, we are able to create customized litigation plans and budgets at the matter, phase and/or task levels. Our project management team carefully monitors work volume and billing metrics to help ensure that our services align with project scope and needs, and to maximize proactive communication with clients about changes in cost, scope and/or strategy.
eDiscovery: For cases requiring electronic discovery, we rely on our in-house Litigation Support Services (LSS) team, which is driven by members with sophisticated technical knowledge and credentialing by the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists. With extensive experience managing complex eDiscovery collection, processing, review and production, our LSS team leverages advanced analytics and technology-assisted review to quickly identify and locate relevant information, process and analyze data efficiently, and help reduce overall litigation costs.
Updated Sep 2025
Thompson Hine LLP, a full-service national business law firm with over 400 lawyers in eleven offices (Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Washington, DC), is widely recognized for its innovative, value-driven approach to delivering legal services.
At Thompson Hine, we integrate service excellence with innovation through SmartPaTH™, our comprehensive legal service delivery model developed in 2013 and continually enhanced. This program was created to respond to clients’ needs for a more predictable, efficient, and transparent service experience. Thompson Hine has made significant investments in talent, proprietary technology, processes, and infrastructure to increase efficiency and provide greater value. SmartPaTH combines disciplined legal project management, process efficiency, flexible staffing, and value-based pricing to align service delivery with client goals-driving efficiency, predictability, transparency, and cost control without sacrificing quality.
Our approach is powered by more than a decade of budgeting experience and proprietary technology, including a new AI- and machine learning–driven algorithm that analyzes over 13 years of client matter data housed in a robust data warehouse. These tools refine cost projections and improve planning, budgeting, monitoring, and matter management, delivering increased predictability in legal spend and better alignment with client objectives.
Legal Project Management is central to SmartPaTH. We define scope, develop detailed work plans and budgets, monitor progress, and conduct post-engagement reviews. Proprietary tools streamline budgeting and work planning, while our matter management system supports clear communication and progress tracking. We continuously improve processes by mapping workflows, creating templates, and developing practice-specific toolkits.
Our innovation is widely recognized across the legal industry. Thompson Hine is a finalist in two 2026 categories the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards North America—Innovation in AI Strategy for our firmwide generative AI professional development initiative and Innovation in New Legal Products.
Additionally, to optimize improvements in planning, budgeting, monitoring and managing matters, the firm commissioned three formal surveys of in-house counsel to ascertain their perceptions and needs, the most recent of which was just published, in November 2025. The survey data, combined with informal client feedback, guides the firm’s innovation efforts
We continue our strategic national growth, opening our 10th office in Minneapolis in 2025, following Los Angeles in 2024, and adding key lateral talent across offices.
Thompson Hine. Always Innovating.
www.thompsonhine.com/innovation
Updated March 2026
