Business Litigation

BIREN|KATZMAN'S Attorneys Successfully Handle Cases Where Businesses Have Lost Money Because of Wrongdoing By Others

There are an infinite number of ways that businesses can lose money or profits as a result of other people's wrongdoing. Cases involving business torts, breach of contract, business fraud, insurance bad faith or malpractice by professionals such as accountants or lawyers can present many complex issues. If your business has sustained a significant financial loss as the result of someone else's wrongdoing, you should contact the law office of BIREN|KATZMAN for a free consultation.

Our attorneys have much to offer, including having developed handling techniques designed to maximize our clients' recoveries in business litigation cases. For example:

• Trial Lawyers - Perhaps the most significant difference between BIREN|KATZMAN's lawyers and most other lawyers involved in business disputes is that we are trial lawyers. Most often, parties in business litigation are represented by business or corporate lawyers, who while they may be excellent at giving business or tax advice or handling business transactions or litigating (handling the paper pushing component of a case), they do not have the expertise at presenting a case at trial. Many times these non-trial lawyers fold before trial, paying substantial settlements. Other times when they do go to trial, they simply are not as adept at presenting a case to a jury. BIREN|KATZMAN has a proven record of success in business litigation cases built on extraordinarily thorough preparation combined with use of the best experts and creative approaches to communicating our client's story to the jury.
  
  
• Contingency Fees - Another thing that sets BIREN|KATZMAN apart from other firms that handle business litigation is that we are willing to represent clients who we believe have a winning claim on a contingency fee basis. Often times in business cases, the business starts out by paying its lawyers on an hourly basis. After awhile, the fees vastly exceed what the client anticipated and the client cannot afford to continue with the case. Attorneys and CPAs who know how BIREN|KATZMAN works have referred us cases in this situation, where we have taken over midstream. In the end, businesses which would have had to drop their claims, have made substantial recoveries because they were able to find us.
  
  
• Maximizing Damages - It isn't enough to establish liability in a business dispute, the outcome of a client's case also depends on proving the full extent of damages. BIREN|KATZMAN knows how to find the best economists and other business experts who can quantify our client's losses sustained as a result of defendant's wrongdoing. More importantly, we at BIREN|KATZMAN know how to present the damages to juries in a way that makes them understand that our clients have been truly harmed and deserve to be made whole to the full extent authorized by law.
  
  
• Team Approach / Principal Lawyer Handling  - BIREN|KATZMAN is unique in that every case accepted by the firm is handled from start to finish by the firm's principals, Matthew B.F. Biren and Marc J. Katzman. Every case is approached on a team basis where every member of the firm works on the case. This team approach involving hands-on involvement of the principal lawyers is much different than how most firms work, where the handling is basically done by an associate and the senior lawyers only get involved, if at all, in the later stages of the case. Our clients profit from this approach because they not only get the benefit of our senior lawyers' extensive experience and knowledge, but they also get the input from many people, which substantially increases the creative ideas generated about handling, which translates to better results.
  
  
• Examples of Business Cases That Can Be Handled On Contingency Fees - The two most common losses businesses sustain are the result of other parties breaching contracts or their insurance companies failing to pay benefits due under their insurance policies. Other cases, called business torts, can involve unfair competition, stealing business secrets, stealing customer lists, stealing employees, lost opportunities etc. Yet another area of losses for businesses is where they rely upon faulty advice or work of professionals they have hired, like lawyers, accountants, insurance brokers, etc. Other types of litigation that business or businesspeople get involved in are related to their business dealings, such as receipt of inadequate goods, real estate disputes, buy-sell disputes, etc.

Our lawyers at BIREN|KATZMAN Trial Lawyers have achieved extraordinary recoveries for our business clients, including:

• A food business whose insurance company engaged in a bad faith refusal to pay them benefits after they had to destroy 100,000 pounds of product that was contaminated by listeria - erroneously claiming that a pollution exclusion applied -- was awarded $435,000 in compensatory damages and $12 million in punitive damages.
  
  
• A business man who had sold the servicing function of his second mortgage business with an option to repurchase it was awarded $4.5 million from the buyers who decided that the business was too profitable to sell back.
  
  
• A businessman whose insurance company delayed benefits so long that zoning changes precluded him from rebuilding his restaurant was paid $2.5 million bad faith damages by his insurance company.

If you are a business or businessperson who has suffered a significant financial loss as the result of wrongdoing by others, or a lawyer or a CPA with a client who has sustained such a loss and needs a contingency fee lawyer, you should contact  the office of BIREN|KATZMAN to schedule a free initial consultation to review your case. Your consultation is free. Your recovery could begin today.

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