Practice Areas
We have significant experience in the world of compliance—specifically regulations relating to “money service businesses.” If you are considering getting into the space, buying, selling, or utilizing tokens in your business, we can ensure that you comply with federal and local statute and regulation. We certainly can attempt to structure your project to avoid securities regulation, but that is not always possible. In the event, your planned project requires S.E.C. registration and regulation, we are happy to guide you through that process.
While we do operate in other spaces in the area, it is less common for us to have clients seeking the work—for instance, if you are considering working in the importation or exportation of certain minerals, regulated technologies, or products we are happy to help, but we would need to speak at length about your proposed business and transactions.
We love commercial litigation that implicates constitutional questions—in particular professional defamation and “unauthorized use” cases are always welcome. We feel exceedingly comfortable in the space and know the contours of Anti-SLAPP practice.
Further, we are always on the lookout for litigation which touches on equal-protection and procedural or substantive due process.
Please keep in mind litigation of this sort generally involves a government actor doing something they should not do, or a planned lawsuit which would affect the constitutional rights of another.
We are happy to discuss and take on more traditional litigation and cases. Most of our cases in this area are contract actions or intentional torts. While we may take on other civil actions, it would be extremely unusual for us to take on actions in certain areas—for instance, we typically could not offer help in medical malpractice or legal malpractice cases; it would also be extremely unusual for us to agree to take on a “slip-and-fall.”
While we certainly might take on such a case were it particularly compelling, intellectually demanding, or novel, unfortunately, these cases tend not to be well-suited to our firm’s mission.
We strongly believe in the importance of civil rights and their enforcement through litigation. We love the practice and are exceedingly comfortable in the area. We continue to admire the traditional philosophy of the ACLU and believe that everyone is entitled to be free from certain actions and free to take others.
Typically, our cases in this area relate to the acts of city, county, state, or federal actors and their respective agencies. We are happy to consider actions against other actors, but it is somewhat unusual for those to exist.
We offer a full suite of services in “soft” IP, i.e., everything but patents.
We would love to help from the application for a copyright or trademark, to trademark oppositions in the TTAB, to infringement or tarnishment actions in federal courts, and subsequent appeals.
Zach cut his teeth drafting briefs and is always thrilled to take on appellate work. Zach’s appellate practice gave rise to our firm and it is an area where we still hold close to the heart. Very few in the legal profession choose to specialize in appellate-level work—it is the furthest you can get from the theater of trial work. It’s dry and theoretical; It requires an intellectual rigor and creativity which few have. We, however, do, and we have attorneys who live for being waist-deep in paper and complexity.
We obviously handle work involving copyright and trademark as well as civil rights. Additionally, our firm is always on the lookout for certain unique federal actions—for instance cases involving, civil-RICO, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Miller Act, the Fraud Claims Act, or the Economic Espionage and Theft of Trade Secrets Act.
We additionally handle certain other federal actions, or very much would like to, for instance art repatriation has long been an area where we would like to litigate, if you believe that you may have a Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act claim, Zach has personally wished to take on such an action for years.
We are always happy to provide legal services to businesses regardless of size. We are more than able to handle the entirety of your business’s needs and are thrilled to work with our partners.
We will, of course, handle everything from creation to wind-up or sale, including: structuring, drafting founding documents, risk-mitigation, policy creation, employment matters and practice consulting, contracts, negotiations, arbitration, litigation, derivative or shareholder actions, share-structuring, transaction structuring, etc., etc. Literally, we are happy to be with you the entire way.