McGlinchey attorneys represent clients in complex, major arbitration and mediation proceedings. As ADR counsel, we have experience in nearly every type of mediation and arbitration issue, including healthcare, commercial litigation, real estate, construction, products liability, and financial litigation. ADR often reduces client risks and can avoid the publicity and the public records that litigation brings. We work with clients to prepare and train them for the process and to draft contract provisions, including those involving international dispute resolution.

General counsel, national companies, and other trial lawyers look to McGlinchey for representation in high-stakes cases involving complex and cutting-edge appellate issues. Our appellate attorneys have briefed, argued, and won cases before the United States Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, and numerous state appellate and supreme courts. A number of these cases have involved issues of first impression that impact broad swaths of the country and numerous businesses, including issues arising from commercial transactions, constitutional challenges, statutory interpretation, and the scope of financial regulation.

With a wide range of technical backgrounds and significant trial experience, we have represented defendants in high-stakes, high-value asbestos and toxic torts litigation in some of the most challenging jurisdictions nationwide. We have defended claims of exposure involving silica, asbestos, welding fumes, aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, toluene, and xylene, among others. We work closely with an extensive network of well-regarded scientists, engineers, and other experts to serve our clients’ interests and achieve their goals.

Our aviation and aerospace team represents manufacturers of aircraft (fixed-wing, rotary, hot air balloons), spacecraft, and satellites, airports (commercial and private), fixed base operators, commercial air carriers, and insurers. We advise on a variety of matters, including contractual and operational issues, service contracts, casualty matters, government contracts and government relations, asset purchases and sales, mergers and acquisitions, creditors rights, bankruptcy, restructuring, recovery of aviation collateral, intellectual property, data privacy, airline disputes with passengers, and insurance coverage.

The McGlinchey trial lawyers have a thorough knowledge of the upstream, midstream, and downstream aspects of the energy industry. Our litigators represent oil, gas, and energy clients, including chemical and petrochemical companies, in domestic litigation and alternative dispute resolution. We not only have worked with most major international oil and gas companies, but we also represent oilfield service companies, offshore drilling companies, pipeline companies, power companies, and utilities.

As nationally recognized leaders in high-profile, high-stakes class action cases, McGlinchey litigators defend financial institutions, insurers, consumer goods manufacturers, and employers facing class action and multidistrict lawsuits. With experience defending hundreds of class actions across more than 25 states, we regularly serve as national and regional counsel for business clients and as thought leaders in this highly specialized field.

McGlinchey’s litigators regularly defends Fortune 500 corporations and financial institutions, national and regional businesses, insurers, and entrepreneurs in a full range of commercial litigation issues. While both our practice and client base are broad, we maintain a special emphasis on complex corporate and contract disputes, creditors’ rights, and litigation on behalf of financial institutions and lenders, as well as lender representation in bankruptcies and workouts.

McGlinchey’s construction attorneys have extensive experience with all aspects of construction, premises liability, state and local code compliance, liens, and insurance. We represent owners, contractors, sub-contractors, designers, and architects both directly and through their insurers.

McGlinchey's Consumer Financial Services Litigation Group is a recognized leader among the nation's most respected financial services institutions. Our litigation practice brings together a skilled team of attorneys who represent banks, finance companies, thrifts, mortgage banks, credit unions, credit card issuers, and FinTech in hundreds of class actions in state, federal, and bankruptcy courts, and in arbitration proceedings. McGlinchey is at the forefront regarding all the complex issues facing the financial services sector.

McGlinchey attorneys regularly represent lenders, landlords, floor plan lenders, heavy equipment manufacturers, financial services providers, bondholders, bond issuers, financial institutions, and industries in creditors’ rights litigation, including complex restructuring and bankruptcies.

Because of our long history in the financial services industry, our trial attorneys have been handling cybersecurity and data privacy litigation for decades. We litigate direct and derivative actions — as both plaintiff and defendant — related to data breaches and data incidents.

McGlinchey’s litigators represent and advise clients dealing with the full spectrum of federal and state environmental laws and regulations, including toxic torts, land contamination and “legacy” oilfield litigation, hazardous waste matters, and enforcement proceedings (whether civil, criminal, or administrative, citizen’s suits, or private and government cost recovery actions). We have provided representation before federal and state agencies in administrative rulemaking, Congressional and legislative bodies, and in public hearings and adjudicatory administrative hearings.

When McGlinchey was formed over 40 years ago, defense of insurance companies was one of our founding practices. Our decades of experience have allowed us to continue to set the standard for managing high-risk, complex insurance and reinsurance coverage cases. A significant practice focus is on environmental and toxic torts issues, including long-term exposure casualty claims on aromatic hydrocarbons, NORM-related injuries, and other substances.

Experienced and effective at both defending and enforcing protections, our intellectual property litigators act aggressively against threats to our clients’ assets. We represent clients in trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition litigation matters, and have achieved favorable litigation outcomes in all resolution forums, including arbitration and mediation.

Leading employers throughout the United States rely on the representation of McGlinchey’s labor and employment lawyers, who keep pace with the ever-changing laws and regulations affecting private and public companies. When matters require litigation, we provide extensive skill and experience in every type of labor and employment dispute as well as employment-related government agency investigations.

McGlinchey’s lawyers handle a wealth of life sciences and health care defense matters serving hospitals, nursing homes and senior living facilities, medical device companies, and pharmaceutical companies, offering our clients unmatched guidance in navigating complex medical malpractice and products liability cases. We understand the severity of allegations against businesses and employees and the potential damages to a client’s corporate reputation and work assiduously with our clients to resolve these matters as expeditiously and as favorably as possible.

Vessel owners, rig and marine facility owners, property owners, banks, private equity groups, logistics companies, maritime suppliers, oil and gas companies, underwriters, drilling contractors, government contractors, and brokers rely on McGlinchey lawyers when maritime litigation arises.

McGlinchey’s lawyers’ proficiency in technical subjects combined with extensive trial and appellate experience has achieved successful outcomes in a myriad of products liability cases over the decades, including personal injury, death, economic loss, alleged dangerous or defective products, and alleged faulty design. The firm serves as regional and local counsel to Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies and represents Global 500 manufacturers, distributors, and insurers in jurisdictions throughout the United States.

McGlinchey’s professional liability team represents a broad array of professionals—including architects, attorneys, directors and officers, doctors, financial service professionals, boards of medical examiners, medical institutions, engineers, insurance agents, and judges—in the defense of malpractice claims and regulatory proceedings. In addition, our attorneys represent clients in fiduciary liability matters and errors and omissions litigation. Our teams use their extensive experience in class actions, regulated professions, and risk management to guide our clients through the regulatory and litigation maze.

Our real estate lawyers’ understanding of the intricacies of real estate issues, from the local, state, and federal levels to the complexities of construction and contract disputes, is integral in McGlinchey’s representation of our clients, including lenders, developers, entrepreneurs, insurers, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers.

Tax litigation is a specialized area, and McGlinchey's lawyers have the knowledge, background and experience that our clients need. This counsel spans federal and state matters, business and individual tax issues, disputed valuations, sales and use taxes, and State and Local Tax (SALT) issues.

Transportation, automotive, and trucking litigation requires both detailed knowledge and decades of understanding of complex contracts, transactions, and logistical undertakings in the corporate world. McGlinchey lawyers work with clients across the U.S. and internationally on matters ranging from breach of contract and anti-competitiveness claims to personal injury and environmental harms. Our leading practitioners in transportation and logistics law represent clients operating in the aviation, automotive, trucking, maritime, offshore energy, and logistics arenas, and we represent carriers, product manufacturers, ports and terminals, airports, operators, lenders, lessors/lessees, insurers, investors, and suppliers.