The partners and associates of Bieser, Greer & Landis have over 300 years of collective experience in the Dayton legal community where the firm itself has been in existence since 1854. Much of that experience has been in the art of communicating complex legal and factual issues in a focused, understandable and persuasive manner to judges, juries, arbitrators, mediators and opposing counsel.
We represent our clients in a proactive, goal-oriented and efficient manner without unnecessary and expensive collateral or secondary proceedings. Three of the firm's partners are Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers, ten are listed in Best Lawyers in America, and eleven of the firm's attorneys carry the highest eligibility rating in Martindale-Hubbell. We pride ourselves in being experts in counseling clients on litigation risks and benefits and representing clients as advocates in an adversary system of justice.
Business Disputes
Business relationships generate a wide variety of business disputes. Bieser, Greer & Landis attorneys have represented business clients, both large and small, as plaintiffs and defendants throughout the United States. The firm’s goal in representing clients in these types of disputes is to focus on the best solution to any business dispute and to pursue the most effective and economical path to that solution. We offer professionals and support staff skilled in organizing voluminous materials and distilling complexities to a simple form suitable for better understanding and presentation. Three of our attorneys are listed in Best Lawyers of America under the category of commercial litigation.
Class Action Litigation
The world of class actions can often have a surrealistic quality in which the volume of claims and logistics of dealing with them can overwhelm substantive issues in which case the tail of fees and expenses can wag the dog of the claims presented. Whether or not necessary for health, class actions are a fact of litigation life. The attorneys at Bieser, Greer & Landis have been dealing with class action litigation since it came into being and have developed skills in dealing with the procedural and substantive issues related to class certification, the proper organization of discovery and trial preparation and the focusing of issues in order to deal economically and effectively with such cases. While there is no magic that can dispel the difficulties presented by complex litigation, the attorneys at Bieser, Greer & Landis have the benefit of extensive past experience with which to assist our diverse client base. Three of the attorneys in the firm are listed in Best Lawyers of America under the category of commercial litigation.
Construction Litigation
Construction cases frequently present constellations of disputes, both inter-related and unrelated, rather than single contested issues. Ultimate success in getting a client out of a lawsuit often depends on initial documentation of relevant facts, assessment of risks and prioritizing of claims. Bieser, Greer & Landis endeavors to be as alert to the economics of construction cases as to the industry standards and practices on which the outcome of such cases often turns. Bieser, Greer & Landis attorneys have been involved on behalf of public and private owners, construction firms, suppliers, architects and engineers in a wide variety of construction claims including lawsuits involving material failures, design errors, defective work quality and delays and disruption problems. It is the goal of Bieser, Greer & Landis to keep the overall dimensions of the case in constant focus and to avoid a meltdown of energy and expense in fruitless pursuit of secondary or trivial issues.
Environmental / Toxic Tort Litigation
Federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations are complex, interrelated, frequently changing and often contradictory. When environmental problems lead to courtroom contests, issues of regulatory interpretation and compliance cry out for forensic simplification and practical communication. The skills of a trial lawyer are particularly needed in those fact situations that contain potential criminal as well as civil implications.
We have represented property owners, both individual and corporate, as well as manufacturing and commercial businesses in a variety of cases involving environmental issues. In an area in which past practices are often unfairly judged by new and novel standards and where books of complex regulations can baffle the best business people, we attempt to serve as practical advocates conversing with practical fact-finders in quest of fairness.
Contract Disputes
The business world turns on business relationships and business relationships are often formed through a contract. When business is good, the business relationship typically thrives, but when the relationship breaks down a breach of contract may result. The attorneys at Bieser, Greer & Landis have represented a wide array of clients, big and small, as both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts throughout the country. In pursuing or defending our clients’ interests, we focus on the best solution to any contractual dispute and to pursue the most effective and economical path to achieve that solution. Bieser, Greer & Landis has the knowledge, expertise and support staff necessary to handle any size case and three of our partners are listed in Best Lawyers of America under the category of commercial litigation.
Intellectual Property
We have worked with outside specialists in patent, trademark and/or copyright law in effectively preparing intellectual property disputes for trial. We have found that, no matter how technical or esoteric a dispute may appear, the potential for a successful outcome is immeasurably enhanced for the client who has the benefit of a trial lawyer’s forensic presentation of its position with understandable themes and effective story-telling skills.
The skills of an intellectual property law specialist tend to be different from the skills of a trial lawyer. The blend of such skills in a harmonious and imaginative combination has proven to be effective whenever it becomes necessary to enforce or to defend intellectual property rights.
Intentional Tort
We initiate and defend intentional tort cases for a wide variety of clients including businesses, individuals and insurance companies. Intentional torts are civil claims that arise from the intentional acts of others.
Our trial attorneys have experience on both sides of these claims as we have represented the injured party as well as the party defending itself against intentional torts. These claims sometimes pose the potential for punitive damages and therefore demand both careful strategy and zealous advocacy.
Personal Injury Litigation
Unlike business disputes in which the forensic task of representing a plaintiff may be no different from that of representing a defendant, there is a dramatic difference in the roles of the trial lawyer on either side of a personal injury case. The balance of appeals to head and to heart, to reason and to emotion tends to tilt according to the goal of achieving or avoiding a verdict. We have vast experience on both sides of personal injury cases in matters ranging from purely emotional injuries to traumatic amputations, brain damage and paralysis. We have been involved in presenting to juries complex issues of reconstructing events and of establishing causation.
Two of our partners have been recognized in the personal injury field by the publication Best Lawyers in America. The legal skills involved in evaluating such cases, counseling clients and negotiating settlements are a valuable product of the courtroom skills essential to presenting such cases.
Products Liability Litigation
The art of advocacy in products liability litigation often turns on keeping the fact-finder oriented to a prospective rather than a retrospective view of events and to the application of common sense rather than man-versus-machine sympathy. Without discounting the significance of mastering the technical issues involving a challenged product and of effectively presenting and confronting expert testimony, we have found these necessities only the prelude to the successful defense of claims asserted under Ohio’s complex product liability laws.
While the ability to persuade fact-finders to see events through a client’s eyes is important in any contested case, in this field especially the presentation is as significant as the proof.
Professional Liability Litigation
The experience of litigation can be especially stressful and frustrating to a professional person who feels disadvantaged by the prospect of sympathy for his or her lay adversary and distracted by the pressure of court proceedings on an already overloaded work schedule. Confidence in effective representation is essential to mitigating such stress and frustration and to achieving a successful resolution of the claims asserted.
As counselors we endeavor to place professional problems in perspective. As advocates we endeavor to accentuate those facts that will secure a favorable response from the fact-finder.
