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Commercial Litigation
Our founding partners are the former in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 corporation. They have handled most every type of commercial dispute in their careers. Our experience includes working with business owners, executives, and in-house counsel representing businesses in disputes over money and property in lawsuits for:
Breach of Contract: Mergers and acquisitions, purchases and sales of securities, transactions in real estate and other business assets and agreements to provide goods or services.
Interference with Contract: A third party's hindering or preventing performance of an agreement.
Fraud and Deceptive Trade Practices: Misrepresentations and fraud in business transactions.
Abuses of Trust: Breaches of fiduciary duties by persons in positions of trust, including corporate officers and directors, agents, trustees, partners or majority shareholders.
Employer/Employee Disputes: Overtime, disabilities, health and pension benefits, retaliation and discrimination (age, race and gender).
Collection of Debt: Promissory notes, guaranty agreements and mortgages/deeds of trust
Indemnity: Drafting, interpretation and defense of claims for indemnity by parties to a contract. This includes contractual insurance obligations as well.
Implied and Express Warranties: Common disputes involving the quality of goods and services delivered including disclaimers or limitations on such warranties as expressed or contracted for.
Agreements Limiting Competition: Non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreements by former business owners and employees. These suits often include requests for emergency relief such as a restraining order or pre-trial injunction.
Misuse of Intellectual Property: Unauthorized use of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, service marks, and trade secrets.
Antitrust Violations: Monopolization of a line of business, group boycotts, price discrimination, tying arrangements and conspiracies to fix prices, allocate customers, divide territories or otherwise prevent competition.
Contact one of our managing partners, Keith Jarvis or Dennis Markusson, if you have a business dispute and need legal help.
Commercial Litigation
Markusson Green & Jarvis attorneys in this practice group include: