Business Litigation

The business litigation team includes a broad variety of commercial business and tort litigation on a local, regional and national level. Attorneys litigate cases throughout Kentucky and the nation, including state, federal and appellate courts. The firm’s attorneys have appeared personally in the United States Supreme Court. Several of the attorneys in the business litigation group have obtained decisions, which have become benchmarks in reported law.

The firm’s experience in business litigation includes:

• Intellectual property litigation including patent and trademark infringement and trade secret litigation
• Antitrust and trade litigation
• Class actions
• Environmental litigation
• Land use & development
• Toxic tort litigation
• Shareholder disputes
• Construction litigation
• Contractual litigation
• Uniform Commercial Code litigation
• Products liability
• Professional liability
• Bank and financial institution litigation
• Federal and state tax litigation
• Regulatory actions
• Employment discrimination actions
• Non-competition and non-disclosure actions
• Franchise litigation issues

Business litigation cases have included nationwide antitrust litigation involving the cement industry, securities class actions, large foreclosure litigation, eminent domain litigation, shareholder disputes and construction litigation in a variety of areas, including large electric generating plants.

In intellectual property, the firm has extensive experience in patent infringement litigation, obtaining in one case a verdict in excess of 30 million dollars; trademark infringement actions and trade secret litigation. The firm has obtained numerous restraining orders and injunctions in these areas.

Employment litigation includes employer/employee relations, extensive workers’ compensation defense work, employment discrimination defense, and litigation of non-disclosure and non-competition agreements.

Middleton Reutlinger attorneys are experienced in federal and state tax litigation including a landmark case generating more than 180,000,000 million dollars in state tax refunds.

The common ground of the business litigation attorneys is to understand the client’s business needs and achieve the best result consistent with those needs in the most efficient manner.