Dickstein Shapiro has significant experience providing comprehensive counsel in all facets of business disputes. The Firm’s skilled litigators and negotiators are well-equipped to resolve even the most complex disputes with highly sophisticated strategies. Dickstein Shapiro’s attorneys have extensive experience working with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) and other government agency investigations and are nationally recognized as leaders in securities litigation. The Firm also counsels corporations on a broad range of employment and immigration law matters, including representation in all types of employment claims and advising on compliance.
Dickstein Shapiro’s skilled trial lawyers provide clients with significant depth of experience in litigating sophisticated, complex, and high-profile business disputes. Firm attorneys have successfully litigated matters in a wide range of industries, including communications, alcohol beverage, real estate, and information technology. Attorneys at Dickstein Shapiro have represented clients in a broad range of national and international forums, as well as in federal and state courts and arbitral tribunals throughout the country.
Dickstein Shapiro’s leading Securities - Litigation, Regulatory, & Compliance - Practice has achieved a national reputation by successfully representing a diverse group of clients throughout the country in cases of national importance. Attorneys have extensive experience representing clients in government agency investigations and enforcement proceedings brought by various exchanges and government agencies, including the SEC, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and state securities agencies. The investigations and enforcement proceedings have focused on accounting and financial disclosure issues, securities registration issues, executive conduct, sales practices, insider trading, and market manipulation. In addition, the Firm has represented the nation’s largest securities firms and their registered representatives in SRO regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings initiated by FINRA, NYSE, AMEX, and various other exchanges in matters involving allegations of failure to supervise, clearing and trading irregularities, trade reporting violations, and sales practice rule violations. Dickstein Shapiro has nationally recognized experience in securities litigation, including class actions, derivative lawsuits, fights for corporate control, and arbitration. Matters in these areas have involved claims of securities fraud, RICO violations, false and misleading financial information in connection with private and public offerings, and other accounting irregularities.
Dickstein Shapiro has exceptional experience in criminal trials, the intricacies of the grand jury, and other criminal law processes. By combining this experience with the Firm’s deep professional resources, Dickstein Shapiro has achieved tremendous success with clients’ business-related problems. The Firm has represented government officials and White House staff during investigations by special prosecutors and congressional committees and has provided representation in high-profile independent counsel investigations. Dickstein Shapiro also is particularly experienced in handling SEC investigations as well as those conducted by other regulatory agencies and by Congress. These capabilities uniquely qualify the Firm to counsel clients on compliance with regulatory requirements, corporate governance, and conducting internal audits and investigations.
Dickstein Shapiro counsels corporations in matters concerning employment; conducts training for management and employees in all aspects of employment compliance, including sexual harassment prevention training; drafts employee policy manuals; and represents companies in all types of employment-related claims (including discrimination, breach of contract, wrongful termination, and wage and hour violations) from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission stage, through mediation or arbitration, up to and including trial. The Firm also counsels and represents companies, trade associations, and employee benefit plans, including single- and multi-employer plans; on Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) matters; and in ERISA litigation, particularly in suits alleging breach of fiduciary duty and violation of prohibited transaction provisions.
The Firm provides representation to creditors, debtors, creditors’ committees, and trustees in bankruptcy in formal proceedings involving bankruptcies, receiverships, foreclosures, and insolvency; in the analysis of commercial and financial transactions to anticipate and address insolvency- and bankruptcy-related questions; and in negotiations and the preparation of agreements for the purchase or sale of assets.
Dickstein Shapiro provides a broad range of immigration law services. Attorneys advise U.S. and foreign corporations on compliance issues relating to the hire and sponsorship of foreign nationals with both temporary and permanent working visas. In addition, the Immigration Practice provides representation for employers against complaints and proposed sanctions brought by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services with respect to the employer verification system and Department of Labor enforcement actions alleging non-compliance with prevailing wage requirements for foreign professional workers. The Firm handles immigration needs for professionals and investors with respect to a wide range of immigration benefits and issues, including temporary and permanent labor certification to confirm unavailability of U.S. workers for offered jobs, retention of permanent resident status, derivative citizenship, waivers of excludability based on criminal record, investor’s visas, and immigrant processing for those with extraordinary ability. The Firm’s immigration experience also includes representation of both individuals and employers and covers all phases of immigration processing before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of State, Department of Labor, and the U.S. Information Agency.