Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution for Companies & Individuals

A lawsuit, whether among businesses, employers and employees, or individuals, can be enormously costly, time-consuming, and disruptive for anyone involved. Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff is a tenacious and vigorous advocate for its clients, pursuing all available options to ensure successful, cost-effective outcomes. We demystify the process by involving clients from the outset of the business dispute through the resolution. In particular, we:

• Treat our clients as partners, involving them in the major decisions that will impact the case
• Present our clients with a cost-benefit analysis of the available alternatives, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of each and our recommendations
• Provide our clients with a timeline and the associated costs of pivotal events that will occur during litigation or dispute resolution

We approach each lawsuit pragmatically, evaluating it from our client’s business perspective. We aggressively seek to persuade opposing counsel that the benefits of settlement outweigh the cost of protracted litigation. When litigation cannot be avoided, we apply decades of experience handling lawsuits in the state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Our attorneys have appeared before the California Supreme Court, the United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

Our Services

Litigation

• Prosecute and defend lawsuits and dispute in all available forums, including state and federal court, arbitration, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution
• Handle disputes between companies, among partners or individuals, involving employers and employees, contracts, torts, and all related relief
• Respond to fraud litigation or unfair practices claims

Corporate and Partnership Dissolutions

• Prosecute and defend lawsuits to dissolve entities
• Recommend solutions to maximize client’s recovery

Provisional Remedies

• Seek injunctions, writs and other provisional remedies to gain immediate relief for client
• Seek writs of attachment to freeze opposing party’s assets and file actions for claim and delivery to recover assets that have been wrongly taken or converted
• Represent property owners in unlawful detainer actions
• Apply to the court to place real property and/or businesses in receivership to protect assets

Enforcement of Judgments

• Collect judgments obtained through the courts

Achievements

Contacts:

Fred Fenster
Steve Formaker
Christopher Fowler
Geoff Gold (practice group leader)
Olivia Goodkin
Wesley Hurst
Duane Kumagai
Judy Lam
Wendy Lane 
Paul Laurin
Frank Melton
Nancy Morgan
Risa Morris
Terence Nunan  
Bernard Resser
Marshall Rutter
Greg Sater 
Claire Shin 
Georgiana Young