Overview
Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith is a full-service and proactive corporate defense firm that prioritizes client service and strategic partnerships. The firm's attorneys are experienced, forward-thinking, decisive, and pragmatic problem solvers who provide quality counsel for high-value and complex matters. In the Gulf South, Midwest, and nationwide, Galloway goes way above and way beyond with sophisticated legal excellence, regional reach, and in-market strength.
Galloway attorneys are strategic advisors and trusted partners providing client-focused, concierge legal service for matters of every scale and complexity. When the unexpected disrupts business, Galloway's 24/7 Emergency Response Team stands ready to help our clients immediately in investigation, handling, and other legal issues that may arise.
The firm's longtime clients continue to trust Galloway lawyers with complex corporate and legal matters. Galloway employs proactive strategies - from initial investigation through early resolution, dispositive motion, or trial - that have proven successful over time. Through early case assessments, litigation plans, cost-containment strategies, and risk transfer, Galloway provides strategies that meet their clients' needs while partnering with them to create relationships that are deliberately responsive and results-oriented.
Galloway optimizes its resources to develop tailored plans for each client to meet their business objectives, taking into account results and cost effectiveness for each client. With fourteen offices across seven Gulf South and Midwest states, the firm has a deep industry knowledge, strategically focused practice areas, and geographic footprint which has positioned them to best serve clients for over 35 years, now, and in the future.
Galloway has decades of experience, expertise, and regional reach in several industries including: insurance; maritime and admiralty; construction; amusements, sports, and recreation; cyber security; financial services; health care; hospitality, entertainment, and leisure; energy; railroad; real estate; retail and restaurant; and trucking and transportation. The firm's attorneys excel in multiple practice areas including: insurance defense and coverage; bad faith; litigation; corporate transactions; employment law; environmental and toxic torts; mass torts and class actions; products liability; professional liability; premises liability; subrogation; immigration; land use and zoning; regulatory and compliance; and workers' compensation.
Galloway champions their clients, their communities, and their values. The firm strives to be a beacon for law firms in the South that embraces a diverse and inclusive workforce, with a belief that diverse backgrounds and perspectives make better advocates, improve client outcomes, and strengthen ties to the community.
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Practice Areas
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Admiralty
- Admiralty and Maritime Law
- Animal Law
- Appellate Practice
- Banking and Finance Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Corporate Law
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Entertainment and Sports Law
- Environmental Law
- Family Law
- Health Care Law
- Immigration Law
- Insurance Law
- Labor and Employment Law - Management
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Leisure and Hospitality Law
- Litigation
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Insurance
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Maritime
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Oil and Gas Law
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Railroad Law
- Real Estate Law
- Sports Law
- Technology Law
- Transportation Law
- Workers' Compensation
- Workers' Compensation Law - Employers