Litigation Practice

International Arbitration

The lawyers at Reinhardt Savic Foley are skillful in international arbitration and dispute resolution from formal proceedings before an international arbitral forum to simply counselling a client through a negotiated resolution to a dispute with a business partner.

International arbitration provides an effective and efficient method of resolving complex international disputes and is a preferred method of international dispute resolution. International arbitration before an established institution offers more flexible rules of procedures and evidence, increased levels of confidentiality, and greater involvement by the parties in choosing who will arbitrate the dispute and make a final determination. With an institutional arbitration tribunal a client can expect formal proceedings more akin to a case progressing through a federal court where a specialized institution is engaged and administers the arbitration case management and progress. The advantage of institutional arbitration is the administration and management of a matter under their established rules that progresses the arbitration in an efficient and timely manner, as well as increased prospects for enforcement, which otherwise can be a considerable challenge in international litigation.

The Reinhardt Savic Foley team has represented clients in commercial disputes across a range of sectors and variety of disputes and has experience before and with the rules of with major arbitration tribunals including The American Arbitration Association (AAA), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), JAMS, The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).

Business Litigation

Business or commercial litigation is at the core of our litigation practice. At Reinhardt Savic Foley, we offer comprehensive business litigation services to clients in resolving complex legal disputes that arise in the business context. Our experienced team of business litigation attorneys combines strategic thinking with deep legal knowledge to effectively represent clients across various industries. We understand the unique challenges businesses face and provide tailored legal solutions to protect our clients’ interests.

Whether you are dealing with contract disputes, shareholder disagreements, or any other business-related legal matter, our dedicated team is here to guide you through every step of the litigation process. We approach each case with meticulous attention to detail, employing thorough legal research, sophisticated analysis, and persuasive advocacy to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.

Our business litigation services encompass a wide range of matters, including breach of contract claims, business torts, partnership disputes, employment disputes, trade secret litigation, professional liability claims, and more. We have a strong track record of successfully representing clients in state and federal courts, as well as in alternative dispute resolution forums such as mediation and arbitration. Our goal is to provide efficient and cost-effective solutions, tailored to the specific needs and goals of each client, while vigorously protecting their rights and interests.

Business Litigation

Business or commercial litigation is at the core of our litigation practice. At Reinhardt Savic Foley, we offer comprehensive business litigation services to clients in resolving complex legal disputes that arise in the business context. Our experienced team of business litigation attorneys combines strategic thinking with deep legal knowledge to effectively represent clients across various industries. We understand the unique challenges businesses face and provide tailored legal solutions to protect our clients’ interests.

Whether you are dealing with contract disputes, shareholder disagreements, or any other business-related legal matter, our dedicated team is here to guide you through every step of the litigation process. We approach each case with meticulous attention to detail, employing thorough legal research, sophisticated analysis, and persuasive advocacy to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.

Our business litigation services encompass a wide range of matters, including breach of contract claims, business torts, partnership disputes, employment disputes, trade secret litigation, professional liability claims, and more. We have a strong track record of successfully representing clients in state and federal courts, as well as in alternative dispute resolution forums such as mediation and arbitration. Our goal is to provide efficient and cost-effective solutions, tailored to the specific needs and goals of each client, while vigorously protecting their rights and interests.

Class Action Defense

Business or commercial litigation is at the core of our litigation practice. At Reinhardt Savic Foley, we offer comprehensive business litigation services to clients in resolving complex legal disputes that arise in the business context. Our experienced team of business litigation attorneys combines strategic thinking with deep legal knowledge to effectively represent clients across various industries. We understand the unique challenges businesses face and provide tailored legal solutions to protect our clients’ interests.

Whether you are dealing with contract disputes, shareholder disagreements, or any other business-related legal matter, our dedicated team is here to guide you through every step of the litigation process. We approach each case with meticulous attention to detail, employing thorough legal research, sophisticated analysis, and persuasive advocacy to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.

Our business litigation services encompass a wide range of matters, including breach of contract claims, business torts, partnership disputes, employment disputes, trade secret litigation, professional liability claims, and more. We have a strong track record of successfully representing clients in state and federal courts, as well as in alternative dispute resolution forums such as mediation and arbitration. Our goal is to provide efficient and cost-effective solutions, tailored to the specific needs and goals of each client, while vigorously protecting their rights and interests.

Cross Border Litigation

As the global economy becomes increasingly accessible to entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes, so too rises the risk and increased complexity of legal, regulatory, commercial, and strategic issues encountered by those businesses. Businesses of all sizes, whether they are in the global market or looking to expand abroad, require legal counsel as cross-border disputes are increasingly more significant and common. Where you or a corporate entity is involved in a dispute arising within the context of international business, foreign regulation, or international commercial relations, often involving multiple legal proceedings in courts of different jurisdictions, you require lawyers experienced in Cross-Border Litigation.

The Reinhardt Savic Foley team combines experience in jurisdictions across the US and Europe, knowledge of local laws and procedure, applicable international instruments, and disputes at both the trial and appellate levels. Our team is experienced in efficiently managing disputes and litigations often involving multiple proceedings advancing before courts of different jurisdictions. We efficiently and cost effectively provide cross-border litigation services by integrating our experience with case and data management technology, virtual conferencing and court appearances, and electronic document management and discovery systems. By combining our international experience with the appropriate case management technology, Reinhardt Savic Foley and its partners are able to act for your business interests in cross-border disputes across the US, Europe and multiple other jurisdictions around the world.

Data and Privacy Security

The RSF team combines hands on knowledge with and a network of uniquely experienced data professionals to offer individual and business clients of all sizes the ability to address a broad range of data privacy, protection and security issues as well as advising on regulatory matters across the United States and Europe. Our data protection and privacy team combines practitioners from the United States, UK, and EU experienced in advising on the aspects of fundamental data legislation including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK Data Protection Act (DPA), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), New York’s current Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) and future New York Privacy Act (NYPA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our team advises on various data and privacy issues including consumer and personal data and privacy protection, corporate data collection and management compliance, data processing and disclosure compliance, corporate terms of use, mobile banking and money transmitting, virtual currency, and data breach notifications. We can work with clients to formulate and prepare data protection compliance plans and can act in data breach reporting, regulatory matters, and prosecution defense actions.

Discovery in Aid of Foreign Proceeding

When faced with the need to gather evidence for use in foreign legal proceedings, 28 U.S.C. § 1782 can be a powerful tool. At Reinhardt Savic Foley, our skilled attorneys assist clients and foreign counsel with the intricate process of seeking discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. This statute allows parties involved in foreign proceedings to request judicial assistance from U.S. courts to obtain evidence located within the United States.

Our team understands the nuances of 28 U.S.C. § 1782 and can provide comprehensive guidance and representation to clients seeking to utilize this provision. We work closely with clients to develop a tailored strategy, carefully analyzing the specific requirements and jurisdictional considerations involved in their case. Whether you are a party seeking evidence or a potential respondent facing a § 1782 application, we have the knowledge and expertise to effectively navigate this complex area of law.

From initiating § 1782 proceedings, crafting persuasive legal arguments, and coordinating the collection and submission of evidence, our attorneys are dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients. We are committed to providing diligent and strategic representation in § 1782 matters, leveraging our experience and extensive network of international resources to help clients obtain the evidence necessary for their foreign legal proceedings.

Judgment Enforcement

Our team works diligently to help you collect or defend against collection of judgments owed. We have experience in collecting on judgments and in defending individuals and companies against improper and aggressive judgment collection. Successful recovery of judgment requires identifying and navigating applicable federal, state, and international laws to enforce judgments. In seeking to collect on judgments and other debts owed, we know how to investigate assets and have trusted relationships with investigative resources experienced in locating assets, as well as employing pressure on the debtor to the fullest extent of the law. We have employed pre-judgment remedies to secure assets and have successfully enforced judgments and settled collection actions by pressuring judgment debtors in equitable settlements for our clients. In defending individuals and companies, we have ensured that judgment creditors play by the rules and do not get more than they are entitled by law.

Enforcement of an international judgment from outside US, or enforcing a US judgment abroad, is significantly more complicated and requires knowledge of local procedures and requirements in the jurisdiction in which enforcement is sought, or reciprocal agreements or treaties between the jurisdictions engaged in the judgment enforcement. Even understanding the criteria a domestic or foreign court may use in determination as to the enforceability of a foreign judgment is crucial in securing recovery. Our team has trusted relationships with firms around the world to ensure the proper and effective enforcement of a foreign judgment.

Labor and Employment

Every company is unique and so are their labor and employment needs. Employment laws differ based on the number of individuals a company employs, the nature of the work, the geographic location of the business, and the company’s business model. The Reinhardt Savic Foley team of attorneys provides a wide range of services to employers and employees to ensure that companies abide by the labor and employment laws. We regularly represent both employers and employees in litigation, arbitration, and mediation related to purported violations of employment laws. We also assist with employment and work place policies and agreements, helping the companies avoid potential liability and expensive litigation.

Development of Proper Policies

The team at Reinhardt Savic Foley understands that running a business can be stressful and that employment-related issues can easily be overlooked. Employers often run into issues, whether it be with its one employees and officers or the federal and state agencies, due to oversights, changes in the law, or other incidental failure to abide by labor and employment laws and regulations. We work closely with companies to develop policies compliant with the employment laws in your particular geographic location or to assure that policies that are already in place are sufficiently compliant.

Investigating Possible Violations

Our team regularly provides legal assistance to businesses and individual employers accused of violating employment laws—by employees, the Department of Labor, or other equivalent regulatory bodies depending on the jurisdiction. Our lawyers have the necessary skillset and experience when it comes to investigations of allegations based on the employer’s particular policies, how the employer actually works with its employees (which, unfortunately, is often different than the employer’s policies), and assessing those policies and actual practice in conjunction with the applicable laws for the jurisdiction where the business in located in order to provide businesses and employees an assessment of claims and issues.

Litigating Violations of Labor and Employment Laws

When all else fails, our team has experience in litigating, arbitrating, and mediating employment-related lawsuits across the United States, from both the employer and employee side of the litigation. Reinhardt Savic Foley takes a business-minded approach to litigating these claims and understands that “winning” an employment-related claim for an employer is often more difficult than simply obtaining a judgment due to the cost and stress related to an employment litigation. Often, entering into non-binding and confidential mediation in advance of an employment lawsuit is a good way to resolve the matter in lieu of a lengthy, expensive, and public trial. Moreover, we remain mindful that, regardless of whether there are actual violations, employment litigation often catches the eye of federal, state, and local employment agencies, resulting in costly investigations and possibly regulatory enforcement actions.

Regulatory Action

In addition to civil lawsuits, regulators at the federal, state, and local level also bring enforcement actions against employers based on information that regulators may acquire from various sources, including but not limited to filings in civil actions and complaints from employees. Our attorneys are experienced in representing clients in regulatory negotiations in advance of litigation and, where necessary, litigation and regulatory proceedings. When working with regulators, we always aim to keep each business’ goals in mind and provide advice and advocacy in line with the goals of each particular case.

Local Counsel Services

Reinhardt Savic Foley works with out-of-state attorneys to provide local counsel services in jurisdictions where our litigation attorneys regularly practice. Over the years, our familiarity with the court systems and nuisances of procedural and substantive law helped us serve clients and their counsel in various state and federal courts. 

Litigation frequently arise suddenly and without notice. Our attorneys and staff is always available to act quickly and address urgent matters in an efficient and effective manner.

Real Estate Litigation

Our team of litigators is experienced in the unique New York City real estate world and have acted on property disputes and real estate litigations across the Metropolitan Area in state and federal courts. Applying their litigation trade to the real estate world, our team has successfully acted for a variety of clients from charter schools to private landlords and tenants and has handled complex litigation matters involving commercial properties, broker disputes, investor disputes, and landlords-tenant disputes.

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

Courts consider civil RICO lawsuits the legal equivalent of a thermo-nuclear device. RICO provides for treble damages, as well as attorneys’ fees to a successful plaintiff, making it a dangerous device to those that end up defending against a RICO lawsuit. At Reinhardt Savic Foley we have extensive experience in defending against RICO actions all over the country—and their State equivalents—including receiving dismissals or judgments with prejudice in multiple district courts and successful resolution of actions through settlement. In addition to our successful defense of RICO actions, our attorneys were part of trial team that won a multi-million dollar jury verdict on a RICO claim.

The Hague Convention

Members of the Reinhardt Savic Foley team have successfully acted on proceedings under The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and have advised members of government and judiciary on the operation of the Convention. This Hague Convention primarily deals with children who are wrongfully removed from one signatory country to another or who are wrongfully retained in a country not of their habitual residence. The Convention provides the law and specific procedural steps to facilitate the immediate return of children back to their country of their habitual residence from which they have been wrongly removed and ensures custody and access rights under the laws of one country are respected in another country.

Our multidisciplinary team of lawyers with litigation, international, international family law, criminal, and investigation backgrounds are well suited to assist even in the most complex Hague Convention matter. Our team can help prevent the removal of the child and defend against any Hague Application seeking to return the child lawfully removed to the United States or United Kingdom, diligently assist in securing the immediate return of a child unlawfully taken to the United States or United Kingdom, and advise on appropriate provisional measures while Hague Conventions proceedings are progressing. Relatedly, we can assist on matters under Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (“UCCJEA”) where a child has been unlawfully taken to a country not a signatory of the Hague Convention, or from one State to another within the United States.