Murtha Cullina LLP

About this office:

Murtha Cullina LLP, founded in 1936, has offices in Hartford, Madison, New Haven and Stamford, Connecticut and Boston and Woburn, Massachusetts. We represent clients from all major industry groups, including general manufacturing, communications, public utilities, health care, transportation, construction, defense, retail and hospitality, agriculture, and banking and other financial services.

The firm is engaged in a general business practice including litigation, corporate and securities, intellectual property, energy and public utility, health care, labor and employment, commercial financing, bankruptcy, municipal law, public finance, real estate, state and federal tax, corporate and environmental compliance, employee benefits law, and estate planning and settlement.

A substantial number of the firm's lawyers handle civil litigation in all major areas of commercial litigation, including bankruptcy, employment, environmental, covenants not-to-compete and trade secrets, construction and tort and product liability. Murtha Cullina LLP is the only major law firm in Connecticut that represents policyholders in disputes with insurance companies over property/casualty insurance coverage.

The International Business Practice Group collaborates with all of the firm's practice groups, including its Islamic Banking & Finance practice. The firm has devoted special attention to the interests of our U.S. clients doing business outside the United States as well as to protecting the U.S. interests of foreign companies. Our practice includes advising clients in corporate and mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, international trade, cross-border franchising, international private client, litigation, arbitration and mediation and business immigration and nationality law matters. We regularly represent clients in international joint ventures and provide prompt and effective advice to clients contemplating business activities and transactions outside the U.S.

The firm has a Government Affairs Group which offers a broad range of services from traditional legislative and administrative lobbying to sophisticated consulting.

A number of the nation's largest companies, including DuPont, UPS and Tyco, have selected Murtha Cullina through law firm competitive "convergence" processes. We provide high quality services to those companies in complex matters across a broad range of practice areas.

Business Immigration, Cable Television, Commercial Finance and Lending, Construction, Corporate, Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy, Employee Benefits, Energy, Environmental, Estate Planning and Administration, Exempt Organizations, Government Affairs, Health Care, Hospital, Insurance Litigation for Policyholders, International, Labor and Employment, Limited Liability Company Law, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Municipal, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Probate, Product Liability, Public Finance, Public Utility, Real Estate, Retail and Hospitality, Securities, Taxation and Telecommunications.

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