Bradley Arant trial lawyers work as a team with each of our clients to develop and implement litigation strategies designed to achieve the client's goals. We regularly represent clients in all types of civil and white collar criminal litigation before federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration panels throughout the United States. Our appellate litigation lawyers regularly represent clients in proceedings before state and federal appellate courts.

Our lawyers have substantial courtroom trial experience. Over the last ten years, we have tried more than 200 cases to verdict in courts all across the states of Alabama and Mississippi and in many other states, including Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, California, Washington, Illinois, and Delaware. Our lawyers have served as lead counsel in actions pending in dozens of additional states.

Two of the cases that our firm defended in the mid-1990s, one tried in Washington and one tried in Alabama, were listed by the National Law Journal as being among the nation's biggest defense wins in 1994 and 1995. Bradley Arant lawyers also represented BE&K, Incorporated as a plaintiff in an Arkansas case that made the National Law Journal's list of the nation's biggest plaintiffs' verdicts in 1994. Several Bradley Arant trial lawyers are Fellows in the American College of Trial Lawyers, and they and others are listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Our experience trying cases gives us a unique perspective that benefits our clients in a number of ways. We know how to staff our clients' matters in an efficient manner so as to provide both vigorous and cost-effective representation. Our trial experience also enables us to better evaluate the risks facing our clients in connection with their litigation matters. Our willingness to take a case to trial also places us in the best possible position when it comes to engaging in settlement negotiations with opposing parties.

Our areas of concentration include class actions, pharmaceutical, medical device, and other products liability, banking and consumer finance, business torts, insurance fraud and bad faith, shareholder actions, commercial litigation, employment, construction, unfair competition, antitrust, patent and trademark infringement, intellectual property, health care and qui tam actions, securities fraud, professional liability, tax and ERISA, environmental, contract, First Amendment, white collar criminal defense, grand jury investigations, and appellate litigation.

Our practice includes representation of plaintiffs and defendants in matters ranging from very complex litigation to relatively straightforward contract cases. Our lawyers regularly practice in the Alabama and Mississippi state court venues that have a reputation as being high verdict venues. Some of the firm's recent cases have included:

• Representation of Intel Corporation against antitrust and patent infringement claims arising out of a unilateral refusal to deal
• Representation of Microsoft in class action antitrust litigation
• Statewide defense of several pharmaceutical companies in cases involving the drug Fen-Phen
• Statewide defense of Warner-Lambert and Pfizer in litigation involving the drug Rezulin®
• Defense of a Fortune 200 company in a series of putative class actions brought in Minnesota federal court, New York state court and Alabama state court all seeking approximately $100 million in refunds for alleged overcharges relating to the abatement of federal excise tax
• Representation of Russell Corporation in a putative environmental class action relating to the discharge of treated dye wastewater into a popular recreational lake in Central Alabama
• Defense of Chevron and BP in numerous underground storage tank lawsuits
• Defense of BP in dealer price discrimination actions
• Defense of the nation's two largest furniture manufacturers in representative lawsuits brought in California under the state's unfair competition law
• Defense of a Missouri mortgage company in a mortgage lending class action brought in Maryland federal court
• Defense of Capital One Bank in a nationwide RICO class action arising out of the collection of Internet gambling debts
• Defense of a national construction and engineering firm against an $80 million breach of contract and breach of warranty claim which arose out of the construction of a nuclear power plant in Washington State.
• Representation of a building materials company in litigation seeking over $100 million in insurance coverage for products liability claims
• Defense of a manufacturer of external insulation and finishing system products in more than 300 cases seeking recovery under fraud and product liability theories, including numerous "sick building" cases
• Representation of Entergy in a contractual dispute involving the sale of electricity to another major utility
• Representation of a managed care company in a nationwide class action challenging financial incentives for providers under ERISA, RICO and state law
• Representation of one of the nation's largest banks against claims brought by the Department of Labor seeking over $150 million on behalf of a retirement plan

Bradley Arant trial lawyers make extensive use of litigation support technology, including databases and document imaging, case management systems, and trial presentation systems. That technology enables us to represent our clients in the most complex, high stakes litigation. Our technology capabilities allow us to staff the matters we handle for our clients in the most cost-effective way. We also use technology to better communicate with our clients and involve them in the decisions that affect them.