Practice Areas & Industries: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Practice/Industry Group Overview

We -- Buchanan Ingersoll litigators -- have a passion for success -- a determination to serve our clients skillfully and successfully. That commitment -- to excellence in serving our clients and to fulfilling the needs of our clients -- drives all aspects of litigation at Buchanan Ingersoll.

Our Clients: We litigate and provide litigation counseling on behalf of a broad and diverse cross-section of regional, national and international businesses. Our clients expect excellence in advocacy, work product, service and cost-effective representation. They expect prompt return of their telephone calls and timely replies to their inquiries. They expect to be part of the litigation decision-making process. They expect successful results -- at the negotiation table, through arbitration or other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, or at trial. Buchanan Ingersoll's clients have their litigation expectations satisfied in a highly competent, cost-effective and successful manner.

Our Attorneys: Buchanan Ingersoll litigators offer broad trial and litigation experience in the legal practice areas confronting people and businesses today.

We are not just litigators; we are trial lawyers.

Our Diverse Practice Areas: We have worked hard to develop and acquire legal talent which couples superb trial skills with proven competence within chosen practice areas. Working continually with our clients, we adapt our legal practice areas so that we are effectively able to serve the current and future legal needs of our clients.

Our Geographic Reach: Buchanan Ingersoll litigators provide broad geographic reach, so that clients may be served effectively wherever their needs arise. From our offices in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Philadelphia, PA; Miami, Aventura and Tampa, FL; Princeton, NJ; Washington, DC.; New York, NY; San Diego, CA; and Wilmington, DE, we serve our clients in regional, national and international venues.

Our Support and Computer Network: Our commitment to successful client service extends to our broad support and computer network that includes a force of experienced paralegals, committed secretaries and staff, and a state-of-the-art document storage and retrieval system. Through this computerized document system, Buchanan Ingersoll litigators have accessed and summarized as many as 1.2 million documents in a single case. Our broad support and computer network provides our clients with cost-effective representation even in the most complex cases.

Our Zeal to Grow Professionally: Our passion for success includes a professional development program for Buchanan Ingersoll litigators. Each is responsible for annually establishing personal goals for client, professional and community service including continuing professional education. Our clients are assured that Buchanan Ingersoll litigators are continually striving to set the highest standards of professional growth.

In sum, Buchanan Ingersoll litigators emphasize excellence in service to our clients -- through our attorneys, our diverse practice areas, our geographic reach, our support and computer network, and our zeal to grow professionally. Our comprehensive approach to excellence -- one to which Buchanan Ingersoll litigators are passionately committed -- seeks to provide effective and successful advocacy for our clients.

Our Trial Practice -- Meeting Your Needs
Buchanan Ingersoll has litigated and tried cases in the following practice areas: :: Antitrust, trade regulation and securities
:: Bankruptcy
:: Class actions
:: Construction litigation
:: Copyrights/trademarks/patents; intellectual property
:: Corporate control
:: Corporate investigatio
:: Covenants not to compete; trade secrets
:: Eminent domain
:: Environmental, natural resource and energy litigation
:: ERISA
:: Family law
:: Financial institutions
:: First Amendment/defamation
:: Insurance
:: Product liability
:: Real estate litigation
:: Transportation

In addition, our team concept ensures that when client litigation needs span several of these areas, we can utilize the experience and knowledge of our attorneys to develop comprehensive and cost-effective approaches to litigation. As part of our passion for meeting the litigation needs of our clients, we have developed emphases in important legal areas which have grown in complexity and importance to our clients.

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") often provides an expeditious, economical and just method for settling disputes when contrasted with the normal litigation process played out in state and federal courts. While many people associate ADR exclusively with arbitration, its reach is far broader and encompasses binding and non-binding mediation, mini-trials, private judges and a variety of other methods. In appropriate circumstances, one or a combination of the above can significantly reduce the cost of discovery, minimize delay, maintain confidentiality and eliminate the possibility of an appeal. Our litigators realize that while not all disputes are amenable to the use of ADR, ADR should at least be considered for use in most disputes.

Exemplifying this desire to present the client with a variety of options, Buchanan Ingersoll is a signatory to a pledge originated by the Center for Public Resources ("CPR") wherein we have agreed to discuss the applicability of ADR procedures with clients in appropriate circumstances. Several of our attorneys serve on the panel of "Distinguished Mediators" established by CPR, and Buchanan Ingersoll is a participating member in CPR.

Our attorneys also have served as "judges" and "arbitrators" in ADR proceedings, which provide our attorneys with a comprehensive perspective on the ADR process.

The attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll not only can suggest and implement suitable ADR options when a dispute arises, but also can suggest language to insert in contracts so as to effect ADR before a dispute occurs. With the expense and delays of judicial litigation, it makes sense to retain attorneys who can provide all the options.

Our Commitment to You ... Our Clients
:: We will listen ... so we understand your objectives.
:: We will respond promptly and in a cost-effective manner ... so your objectives are timely and efficiently met.
:: We will provide excellence in work product and service ... so your objectives are successfully achieved.

We demonstrate our commitment to you ... our clients ... through our passion for success ... and excellence ... in serving you.