Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson has extensive experience representing clients in a wide range of high-stakes business litigation. This includes cases involving business torts, contract disputes, employment disputes, fiduciary duties, fraud, internal investigations, restrictive covenants, partnership disputes, and trade secrets.
Every business dispute is unique, but in each case our objective is the same: efficiently deliver the best outcome possible. We will work with you to understand your unique situation, your goals, and develop a tailored strategy to achieve those goals.
Call (404) 891-9150 or schedule an online consultation.
Advantages of contacting our skilled business litigation attorneys
Running a business is demanding enough without the added burden of complex legal disputes. At Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson, our experienced business litigation attorneys act as a strategic buffer between you and the legal challenges that threaten your operations, reputation, and bottom line.
During your initial consultation, we take the time to understand the nature and structure of your business. From there, we step in to protect your interests and resolve conflicts that may be disrupting your efficiency or profit margins.
Our commercial litigation lawyers have successfully handled high-stakes civil litigation involving breach of contract, partnership disputes, shareholder litigation, and intellectual property claims. With millions of dollars at stake in some cases, we are fully equipped to represent businesses across industries and at every stage of growth.
We know that every business has unique goals, risks, and concerns. That’s why we provide tailored legal strategies based on the specific facts and long-term objectives of your company. Whether your dispute involves a contractual issue, non-compete agreement, or allegations of business fraud, our attorneys have the knowledge and courtroom experience to pursue the best possible outcome.
Above all, we bring not just legal skill but genuine dedication to protecting what you’ve built. When your business is on the line, trust Griffin Durham’s team of business litigation lawyers to deliver the results your company deserves.
Businesses we serve
Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson works with business clients of all sizes, including major corporations, mid-size businesses, and small businesses.
The size and scope of your business determines the resources available for legal action and the importance of efficiency and timeliness in terms of resolving the issue. No two clients are the same, and our firm takes the time to get to know your business before determining the best possible path toward an ideal outcome.
What makes a business dispute complex?
Even the seemingly simplest businesses and structures still encounter a variety of disputes that range in complexity.
Complex business disputes involve an extensive review of business records, including highly technical accounting, financing, lending, tax issues, or insurance coverage concerns. Such issues generally arise when the business has encountered illegal activity of some sort, such as when illegal activities were entered into for financial gain on behalf of the company or an individual.
Outside of illegal activity, business disputes become complex when they involve multiple parties, which means three or more people or businesses are involved in the dispute, or multiple venues, meaning multiple courts have jurisdiction over the case.
Common examples of complex commercial litigation that we handle
Our lawyers have significant experience defending and prosecuting cases involving the following types of claims:
Fraud
Fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Examples of business fraud include making untrue statements to customers, business partners, or the employer; misuse of company assets, and employee misconduct.
Breach of fiduciary duty
Breach of fiduciary duty occurs when an individual or company betrays a client, co-owner, shareholder, or the company. This betrayal happens when the individual responsible for acting in the best interests of another instead chooses to profit for their own interests.
Breach of contract
Breach of contract is self-explanatory. All sorts of contracts may be breached, including those that:
- Fail to provide goods or services as agreed
- Violate a non-compete agreement
- Fail to share profits
Theft of trade secrets (economic espionage)
Theft of trade secrets is a serious threat to a business’s stability. Trade secrets include any original methodology or formulas on which production and profitability are based, including patterns, plans, programs, designs, prototypes, techniques, processes, procedures, or codes that have intentionally been kept confidential.
Trade secrets may be tangible or intangible, and may be compilations or stored graphic, photographic, written, or electronic information.
Business torts
Business torts include, among other misconduct: injurious falsehood, unfair competition, negligent misrepresentation, and conspiracy — any of which are designed to damage a business in terms of reputation, loss of clientele, and loss of profit.
Internal investigations
Internal investigations may be the result of a whistleblower, sometimes motivated by a desire to protect themselves from prosecution by being a cooperating witness, and sometimes enticed by the notion of a whistleblower lawsuit in which the whistleblower stands to win a percentage of the recovered funds.
Partnership disputes
Partnership disputes may occur when one partner wants to sell the business and the other does not, or when one partner simply wants to dissolve the partnership.
Commercial disputes
Commercial disputes are the lawsuits arising out of transactions among merchants, bankers, and traders during the course of mercantile transactions.
Involved in a complex business issue? Griffin Durham can help
It’s never easy to be involved in a business dispute. These issues are particularly challenging since the case involves the stability of your business, personal finances and reputation.
That’s why it’s essential to have a legal advocate who is familiar with aggressive methods to hold wrongdoers accountable as well as defense strategies to mitigate those attacks.
Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson offers flexible fee structures because we want to align our success with your success. We’re comfortable sharing in the risks and the rewards because we are confident in our ability to deliver.
Call (404) 891-9150 now, or you may also schedule an online consultation. We look forward to hearing from you.
