Best Law Firms in the United States for Commercial Litigation

Barton Cerjak: When Winning Really Matters

“Uncompromising advocacy” isn’t just a tagline for us. Success is measured by results and it is achieved by zealously advocating for every client in every case. Although each dispute presents its own nuances, the overarching objective remains constant: how to achieve the client’s goals in an efficient and cost-effective manner? This is why at the outset of every engagement, we partner with our clients to understand how they define a “win,” develop a strategy to achieve that win, and offer a range of fee structures to make that vision a reality.  

A Results-Oriented Firm

Litigation is time-consuming and expensive. And because no two clients are the same, implementing a strategy that comports with each client’s objectives and developing a cost structure to achieve those objectives requires both collaboration and flexibility. There is never a one-size-fits-all approach. Barton Cerjak was founded on the notion that judges and juries—not inflexible revenue models—should determine who wins and who loses a given dispute. We like to bet on ourselves and are open to offering a variety of fee structures to suit our clients’ individual needs, thus promoting an alignment of interests. Whether that means handling a matter on an hourly basis, on a contingency, or through a hybrid arrangement, we are committed to what really matters: notching victories for our clients.

A Client-Centered Approach

Winning takes an unwavering commitment to both the client and the cause. At Barton Cerjak, our clients’ problems become our problems. This means we are always available to address each and every question a client has about the legal matter it is facing. It also means that the word “quit” is not in our lexicon. These commitments to each client are, at their core, what it means to be an uncompromising advocate. Litigation is stressful, chaotic, and foreign to most people. When clients know that a trusted, loyal advocate is fighting to protect their interests, relationships are forged, clarity is obtained, and the parties work together to achieve the stated objective. That is how you win cases. We have staked our reputation on it.

Barton LLP, a law firm with offices in New York, California, Tennessee, and Virginia is comprised of an elite team of former partners of “Big Law” who have joined together to create a progressive law firm. To us, legal services are business services, and our attorneys and staff are business-people serving business clients to advance their business goals.

Our mission is to provide our sophisticated corporate, financial services, investment fund and entrepreneurial clients with the highest quality legal services delivered in an effective and efficient manner. We accomplish this because we are an organization that does not follow the traditional multi-layered and leveraged law firm model. We believe that a better product, value and client experience is achieved by providing our clients with highly skilled senior attorneys who work directly on their matters with appropriate support from a strong, but lean team of associate attorneys and staff.

We are committed to developing long-term relationships by partnering with our clients so that we thoroughly understand their organizations, objectives and long-term goals. We offer in-house training programs to our clients and take a proactive approach to reviewing clients’ business practices, contracts and relationships to avoid or reduce the incidents of litigation and risk whenever possible.

Our firm structure and experience allows us to offer a wide array of alternative fee arrangements. We understand that hourly billing is frequently not in our client’s best interest, nor does it necessarily represent the value of our services. Our clients provide their goods and services in a competitive marketplace, and yet they rarely, if ever, use an hourly based pricing model. We know that clients have to manage their resources and create efficiencies to stay within budget – and they want lawyers who are able to do the same.

Our clients come first. We are dedicated to client satisfaction. Since our founding in 1993, Cooper & Scully has grown into a formidable trial and appellate team of over thirty lawyers with skills that are second to none. Through effective and cost-efficient services, our dedicated team enjoys a stellar reputation for success and excellence.

We deliver top-notch litigation services in matters throughout the country from our offices in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Francisco.

Our firm has the flexibility to address the needs of small and large business concerns alike. We represent business entities, business owners and health care providers in a broad range of litigation and other legal matters, including complex multiparty and class-action lawsuits before federal and state courts. We have extensive experience litigating a wide spectrum of legal areas including appellate, business transactions, construction, employment, energy, health care, insurance, intellectual property, medical malpractice, products liability, professional liability and transportation.

In addition to litigating complex cases from inception, our firm is frequently retained to try cases prepared by other lawyers and to handle the post-verdict or appellate phases of cases tried by other counsel. We also handle federal and state regulatory and agency proceedings and alternative dispute resolution matters, such as arbitration and mediation.

Our mission is to resolve your litigation effectively, quickly and cost-efficiently. We provide exceptionally responsive and proactive service to our clients. Where appropriate and in the interests of our clients, we can consider alternative billing structures including contingent fee and project based arrangements.

Founded in 1995, Coppersmith Brockelman is a business law firm in Phoenix with numerous locally and nationally renowned practice areas including commercial litigation, health care, employment, and election and political law. While regularly recognized for expertise, professionalism, leadership, and a commitment to the community, the firm prides itself on retaining a close-knit, humble culture where creativity and a common-sense approach are highly valued.

As a full-service business, litigation and real estate law firm based in Portland, Oregon, Dunn Carney attorneys are able to collaborate effectively and efficiently across practice areas to provide the best solutions possible. Attorneys at Dunn Carney deliver what is important to their clients: expert, coordinated, cost-effective services that are responsive to client needs. As one of Oregon’s largest law firms, we have the talent and resources to deal with the most complex legal problems, but a collegial, team-driven culture that emphasizes the accessibility and responsiveness usually associated with smaller firms.

We believe that consistent service is as important as the expertise provided. For more than 70 years Dunn Carney has provided exceptional legal services to businesses, not-for-profits and individuals throughout the Northwest and the nation. As the only Oregon member of Meritas, a worldwide network of peer- and client-reviewed firms, Dunn Carney has global reach but a local footprint. 

Frost Law LLC is a law firm experienced in handling complex criminal cases and civil disputes in federal and state courts. Conveniently located next to the federal and state courthouses in New Haven, Connecticut, the firm represents individuals and companies who need a New Haven criminal lawyer to handle white collar investigations, felony and misdemeanor criminal trials, and criminal appeals. We also can represent you in civil lawsuits, civil appeals, and attorney disciplinary proceedings. We provide personal attention to each matter, adhering to the highest professional and ethical standards, while aggressively pursuing the clients’ goals and objectives.

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. brings innovative, effective, and practical solutions to the complex problems clients face in today’s interwoven and evolving arenas of law, commerce, technology, insurance, education, healthcare, government, and public relations.

Excellent, efficient legal service requires an in-depth knowledge of our clients’ businesses and the challenges they face in today’s increasingly competitive marketplace. With attorneys experienced in a full range of practice areas, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd attorneys work as a member of our clients’ team, providing advice and counsel for a broad range of matters, including general operations, regulatory compliance, corporate organization and governance, mergers and acquisitions, securities, taxation, employment, and litigation.

Admissions include state and federal courts in South Carolina, North Carolina, District of Columbia, Georgia, Florida, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas,  including the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Backed by more than a century of commitment to the businesses it serves, the firm provides clients with the highest level of advice, counsel, and representation covering a diverse array of matters in regional, national, and international settings.

Distinguished in the legal community, firm attorneys have held leadership positions within state and national organizations such as past presidents of the South Carolina Bar, the South Carolina Bar Foundation, and the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association; including serving as board members of the American College of Bond Counsel and past president of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL).

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. has more than 110 attorneys and offices located in Charleston, Columbia, Florence, and Greenville, South Carolina, and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Kinney Lisovicz Reilly & Wolff PC

Excellent lawyers. Exceptional results. We are a law firm committed to our clients' success. Experience, drive, creativity, and integrity are the traits that we bring to every matter we handle. We represent clients in federal and state courts in a wide variety of matters, including insurance coverage, civil litigation, premises liability, product liability, construction defect, food-borne illness, toxic exposure, breach of contract, professional liability, employment litigation, auto and trucking, criminal defense, and appeals. Our cost-effective approach focuses on each client's individual needs. We are dedicated to providing every client with timely and thoughtful communication on matters we are entrusted, and are proud of the professionalism and collegiality that we bring to the attorney-client relationship. We know that to achieve the best results for our clients absolute attention must be paid to every detail, from start to finish. We leave no stone unturned.

Anthony Magee is an Oxford-educated, former English barrister, who has practiced law in Dallas since 1993. His practice encompasses all types of complex disputes, particularly proceedings in federal courts and before the Patent Trial & Appeal Board, trademark applications in the Trademark Office and petitions at the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board.

Anthony Magee's experience includes representing both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation and patent and trademark infringement litigation in a wide range of businesses and services, including telecommunications, media publishing, technology education, aviation, business management software and technologies, medical devices, tissue engineering, semiconductors and health care management systems.

He has worked extensively in complex litigation and arbitrations relating to large-scale information technology outsourcing contracts and many other types of business disputes, including professional partnership disputes, contractual and trade secrecy disputes relating to professional sports teams, and litigation relating to real estate, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and auction rate securities.

Mansour Gavin LPA offers legal services in the areas of civil litigation, real estate and land use, labor and employment, estate planning and probate, intellectual property, environmental, corporate and business law, and alternative dispute resolution.

We pride ourselves on delivering practical, results-focused solutions through a collaborative, client-focused approach. Established in 1954, the firm provides a wide range of legal services to individuals and many successful companies from our offices in Cleveland and Independence, Ohio.

Marsh, Rickard & Bryan, LLC is an award-winning, client-focused law firm of trial lawyers primarily handling catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Alabama and surrounding states. For more information, visit the firm's website at www.mrblaw.com.

We provide our clients with the quality of legal work they expect from a major firm with hundreds of lawyers, and the level of personal attention they expect from a small law office.

Yankwitt LLP is Westchester County’s go-to law firm for high-stakes, bet-the-company litigation. Founded in 2009, Yankwitt LLP is the only New York firm of its kind outside of Manhattan, exclusively staffed with senior attorneys who trained at prestigious national and New York City law firms and served as federal prosecutors and/or federal law clerks. Boasting one of the largest litigation teams in Westchester County, Yankwitt LLP represents businesses and high-net-worth individuals across a broad range of matters. The firm has built a reputation as the referral firm of choice for Am Law 100 firms that are conflicted out of cases and want to offer high-caliber representation in Westchester County. The firm is also retained by local firms in the county in need of skilled trial counsel on high-stakes litigation.

Yankwitt LLP attorneys represent clients with contract disputes, business divorce matters, employment litigation, and tort actions, as well as litigation issues relating to family law, trusts and estates, bankruptcy, and real estate. The firm’s Criminal Defense & Investigations Practice fiercely defends individuals and companies in headline-making white-collar cases and internal and government investigations. We also serve as general counsel for Westchester, New York City, and national businesses.

 The firm’s client roster boasts a diverse mix of businesses spanning multiple sectors and facing varied commercial, civil and criminal legal challenges. Notable industry leaders such as Walgreens, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Mavis Discount Tire, Million Air, Landry’s, Hillstone, and Hunter Point Capital fill the firm’s list of esteemed clients. The firm also represents local entities like the Westchester Reform Temple, the Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester,  and the City of Rye, guiding them through challenging and novel legal issues.

In the criminal defense and government investigations arenas, the firm represents individual clients facing threats to their financial and personal liberty, including high-profile figures, who faces charges from multiple agencies.

The firm’s extraordinary work and unparalleled client representation have been recognized by leading industry publications and organizations year after year. In 2023, the firm received one of the most coveted honors in Westchester County: The Business Council of Westchester Hall of Fame Award for Small Business Success. The firm also has been ranked a top 10 Best Small Company to Work for in New York and Westchester and received the Best of Business Award in Westchester. For the past four years, Yankwitt LLP and its attorneys have been selected for inclusion in Benchmark Litigation and Chambers USA and is the only Westchester-based law firm to appear in its tables. The firm’s attorneys are also regularly ranked in Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, and Martindale Hubbell.