Litigation

Maddin Hauser has extensive experience in litigation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution procedures involving a wide variety of cases. Members of the firm's litigation practice group have represented clients in the whole spectrum of commercial, employment, real estate, contract, banking, unfair competition, and other matters in federal and state trial courts, appellate courts, and administrative agencies and boards. In addition, members of the litigation practice group have acted as both advocates and arbitrators in proceedings under American Arbitration Association and National Association of Securities Dealers rules and as mediators for state, circuit and district courts.

The firm is frequently called upon to handle fast paced matters such as temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions where sophisticated issues may need to be addressed within a matter of days or even a few hours.

The litigation practice group has enthusiastically adopted the latest technology, which has greatly enhanced the firm's ability to meet its goal of obtaining the best possible results for its clients in the least disruptive, most expeditious, and most cost effective manner. Among other things, the firm has made extensive use of "real time" reporting of court and other proceedings such as depositions, computer aided legal research, computerized docketing, and electronic storage and retrieval of documents and other data.

In addition to the expertise of individual members of the firm's litigation practice group in particular substantive areas of the law, the litigation group works closely with members of all other practice groups within the firm, which allows it to effectively handle most types of complex litigation.

A partial listing of the kind of matters in which it has been recently involved includes:

• Administrative proceedings
• Appeals from judicial and administrative decisions
• Bankruptcy
• Bureau of Workers'& Unemployment Compensation
• Computer and information technology
• Construction industry
• Debtor and creditor
• Dissolution of corporations and partnerships
• Employment
• Agreements not to complete
• Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
• Discrimination/harassment
• Non-solicitation agreements
• Wrongful discharge
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• ERISA
• General commercial litigation
• Insurance coverage
• Intellectual property
• Internal Revenue Service
• Libel, slander and violation of privacy
• Michigan Employment Security Board of Review
• Michigan Tax Tribunal
• Real estate
• Condemnation
• Construction liens
• Environmental
• Land contracts
• Landlord/tenant lien priority disputes
• Mortgage foreclosure
• Title issues
• Securities
• Shareholder and partnership disputes
• Taxation
• Trade secrets and unfair competition
• Wills, estates, and trusts
• Zoning and land use