Cahill is proud of its reputation as the firm of choice for companies and individuals faced with “bet the company” disputes that require innovative thinking and tailoring aggressive and creative litigation strategies. Often called upon in times of extreme need specifically for our litigation prowess, we count among our clients many of the Fortune 50, significant foreign businesses as well as the nation’s largest and most successful law firms when they themselves are faced with litigation threats. Chambers USA confirmed that, “Clients turn to Cahill when they need a firm that can draw from a deep pool of knowledge in difficult circumstances to 'come out with all guns blazing'." Whether you are a potential or actual plaintiff or defendant, we approach any litigation as a serious threat to your reputation or ability to do business.
The firm has long believed that effective litigators are multi-talented and adapt to the evolving needs of clients across the full spectrum of disciplines. Our litigation teams are highly collaborative and are staffed with sensitivity to the needs of the particular matter. The same ability to cut across typical practice definitions also characterizes our appellate advocacy practice and contributes to its success in helping new clients reverse substantial adverse judgments or injunctions.
We regularly defend large-scale securities, insurance, antitrust, media, intellectual property, professional liability, product liability, white collar and corporate governance litigation throughout the world. We are a consistent defender of leading insurance and reinsurance companies in class action and other complex litigation and dispute resolution. We also work closely with major accounting firms and investment banks and have represented participants in complex securities class action litigation and related governmental investigations, involving financial exposures in the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.
From the Pentagon Papers case to our recent representation of New York Times reporters on confidential sources issues, our First Amendment practice has been the nation’s most prominent defender of the rights of the press for 40 years. "Cahill is often called upon in times of extreme need specifically for its litigation prowess.” Chambers USA (2007).
The firm obtained one of the largest jury verdicts in a contract action and has extensive experience in civil litigation as well as employment, compensation and ERISA-related claims. We have a long history of success in antitrust matters, including landmark rulings National Broadcasting Co. v. United States, among the most significant cases ever decided concerning the power and authority of the FCC, DOJ v. Engelhard, one of the most successful defenses of a DOJ injunction proceeding seeking to block a merger, and Times Picayune v. United States, among the Supreme Court’s most important antitrust rulings.
We regularly appear before government entities including the SEC, State Attorneys General, FCC, FTC, Congress, grand juries, the bankruptcy courts, the Patent and Trademark Office and the Department of Justice. In the current regulatory environment, we are leading internal investigations and advising clients on responses to government inquiries.
The reputation and training of Cahill litigators is such that four former Cahill attorneys presently sit on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Southern District of New York. Other former Cahill attorneys are judges on federal circuit and bankruptcy courts, as well as state courts. The litigation group draws the best and the brightest. Among our present partners are former law clerks for the Supreme Court and numerous federal appellate and district courts. A current partner is a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Cahill litigators regularly try cases in state and federal courts, as well as before international tribunals such as the London Court of International Arbitration, the World Court and the ICC International Court of Arbitration. We obtained the first and one of the largest awards made by the U.S.-Iran Claims Tribunal for expropriation of AIG’s business in Iran, the first time in recent history that expropriation recovery under international law was awarded for the loss of goodwill. In the U.S. we are routinely appointed by state and federal courts to assist in settling existing disputes, including those arising from complex issues in the privacy and creative structure of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms themselves.
