Litigation

Carson Messinger offers you wide-ranging litigation services by lawyers with extensive and varied litigation backgrounds.

Michael P. Anthony • Michael Nevels • Robert P. Lindfors • Kevin R. Keating • Shirley J. Wahl • Travis B. Hill • John H. Anderson • Wallace L. Larson • Matthew H. Mason • Hannah A.C. Auckland

Our firm represents large and small businesses, individuals, banks, hotels, contractors and subcontractors, insurance companies, title insurance companies, manufacturers, distributors, commercial and residential landowners, taxpayers, utilities, pension boards, mortgage lenders, developers, real estate agents and brokers, employers, employees, foreign interests, retailers, wholesalers and governmental entities in cases before the federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels.

We have prosecuted and defended matters ranging from antitrust and bankruptcy to utilities regulation and zoning. The firm's litigation experience includes:

  • administrative law

  • antitrust litigation

  • bad faith

  • banking law

  • business torts

  • class actions

  • collections

  • constitutional law

  • construction law

  • contracts

  • directors and officers liability

  • divorce, custody, support

  • employment litigation

  • environmental law (state and federal)

  • escrow negligence claims

  • extraordinary relief

  • family law

  • firearms litigation

  • foreclosures (consensual and non-consensual liens)

  • fraud

  • insurance law

  • landlord-tenant disputes

  • patent, trademark and trade name infringement

  • personal and real property law

  • personal injury law

  • probate law

  • product liability

  • professional negligence

  • public pension litigation  

  • real estate

  • receiverships

  • RICO

  • taxation

  • title insurance, claims, underwriting risks

  • Uniform Commercial Code

We fully recognize that litigation is expensive, and we try to reduce the costs of litigation whenever possible. We evaluate each case from the perspective of your legal and economic goals, and we view litigation as a joint effort between the firm and you to bring conflicts to a just, speedy and economical conclusion.

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