Employment litigation is not inevitable. We can counsel you on preventative measures to minimize the risk of litigation, including developing workplace discrimination and harassment policies and practices, training employees and managers, and preparing employment agreements and handbooks. Federal, state, and local laws need to be considered in developing company policies. Trust & Estates, Probate, and Guardianships
Annulment
THE U.S. ELEVENTH CIRCUIT OVERULES ITS DECADES-LONG POSITION ON ANNULMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRAL AWARDS ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES For more than…
Our Florida business lawyers can prepare all types of transactional documents, including purchase and sale agreements, merger and acquisition agreements, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, and partnership and joint venture agreements. Our attorneys plan, structure, negotiate, and execute complex, high-value business transactions. Our partners have experience helping clients secure debt or equity. We often serve as outside counsel, advising business managers on every aspect of corporate governance, management, and compliance with governmental regulations. Many of our attorneys are licensed in multiple jurisdictions. Intellectual Property
Business Disputes
We maintain an extensive business litigation and dispute resolution practice. Often, business litigation involves high stakes. An entire company’s future may rest on the outcome of a single lawsuit. Thus, it is imperative to select an attorney whom you can trust to represent you in business litigation. We represent a broad spectrum of clients, including private and public companies, family-owned businesses, start-ups and growth firms, individual entrepreneurs, and financial institutions. Our Florida business attorneys litigate claims related to antitrust, unfair competition, trade secrets, asset recovery, civil fraud, RICO, foreign judgment enforcement, fraudulent conveyances, commercial collections, contract disputes, complex commercial disputes, labor and employment, intellectual property, sports league agreements, real estate, construction, creditors’ rights, and property. We also represent clients in investor and broker-dealer FINRA arbitration.
Business Transactions
We perform a wide range of legal services in connection with intellectual property, including filing and prosecuting non-provisional utility patents and design patents, filing provisional patent applications, evaluating new technologies for patentability, formulating and conducting right to use or freedom to operate searches, identifying and policing our clients’ intellectual property rights, providing portfolio counseling, and representing clients at Markman hearings, as well as Trademark Trial and Appeal Board inter partes disputes. We also can structure and negotiate IP business transactions. International Law and Arbitration
Trade Secrets
Intellectual Property
A business’ most important assets may be intangible intellectual property rights. It may be crucial to pursue or defend against litigation related to these rights. For example, if you discover that a competitor within the U.S. is infringing your patent by making and selling an item that contains each element of your patented claim while the patent is in effect, you will have a claim of patent infringement. Patent holders need to bring infringement actions within six years from the infringement date. The business attorneys at our Florida firm handle intellectual property litigation, along with the registration of copyrights, trademarks, and patents.
We assist clients in the full range of labor and employment litigation in state and federal courts. We also represent clients before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Department of Labor, the Florida Commission on Human Relations, the Public Employees Relations Commission, and the Agency for Workforce Innovation. We have handled litigation in connection with misappropriation of trade secrets, employment discrimination and retaliation, defamation, wage and hour laws, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, and sexual harassment.
Careful estate planning can allow you to maximize your wealth and protect your assets. For example, you potentially can avoid probate by creating a living trust. It also can allow you to arrange for financial management and health care decision-making in case you become incapacitated. Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Assouline & Berlowe represents debtors and creditors in state, federal, and bankruptcy courts in liquidation, reorganization, and adversary proceedings. The Firm's attorneys handle, among other things, commercial collections, enforcement of rights in secured transactions, and adversary proceedings and appeals. The Firm also represents parties in: asset recovery; assignments for benefit of creditors (also known as ABCs); contested garnishment proceedings; judgment enforcement proceedings, including the execution and sale of seized assets; preferential and fraudulent transfers litigation in bankruptcy court; proceedings supplementary, under Fla. Stat. § 56.29; receivership related actions; contested Uniform Commercial Code issues; voluntary and involuntary business bankruptcy; and out of court workouts of troubled or non-performing loans.