Civil Litigation

Our Civil Litigation Group practices in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
We concentrate on trying disputes involving:

• Commercial contracts
• Employment discrimination
• Business torts including:
• Breach of fiduciary duty
• Product disparagement
• Business defamation
• Fraud
• Interference with contracts
• Non-competition agreements
• Trade secrets
• Unfair competition
• Corporate governance
• Partnership dissolution including:
• Director and officer liability
• Corporate dissolution
• Shareholders derivative claims
• Professional practice dissolution including:
• Medical
• Legal
• Architectural
• Engineering and accounting
• Professional liability of architects and engineers
• Construction contracts
• Construction defects
• Creditors rights, including bankruptcy adversary proceedings
• Community association issues, including condominium warranty claims, disputes with developers, defense of directors and officers, and contract disputes
• Premises liability
• Trust and estates
• State and federal tax assessment and refund claims

The civil litigation group also includes skilled appellate lawyers who handle appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Virginia Court of Appeals, the Court of Appeals of Maryland, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the District of Columbia Circuit and the federal circuit courts.

Rees Broome, PC also employs Alternative Dispute Resolution for a variety of matters in an effort to minimize the costs and disadvantages of litigation.

• Bruce E. Titus
• Maureen Elizabeth Carr
• Stephen D. Charnoff
• Robert J. Cunningham
• William P. Daly, Jr.
• Susan R. Salen
• Mark P. Graham
• Mark A. Moorstein
• John F. Boland
• Courtney B. Harden
• Kelly C. Zook
• Mariam W. Tadros

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