Commercial Litigation
Taylor Porter’s commercial litigation team has extensive experience in all types of business and complex litigation. We have represented clients in construction cases; commercial contract litigation; antitrust litigation; securities law disputes; shareholder derivative lawsuits; bankruptcy; insurance coverage disputes; claims against officers and directors; accounting, legal and other professional malpractice claims; civil RICO claims; white collar criminal defense; tort claims involving business interruption and other commercial losses; and transportation contract litigation.
We have represented clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses in commercial litigation of all types and sizes. We have successfully handled major complex litigation involving damages ranging in the millions of dollars. Our experienced litigators regularly appear in state and federal courts throughout Louisiana, and in arbitration proceedings in Louisiana and elsewhere. We are called upon to represent clients in courts all over the country.
Representative Experience:
- Lead plaintiff’s counsel for Association Self-Insurers’ Fund in various collection matters, including a successful summary judgment exceeding $74,000.
- Representation of a non-profit organization operating in conjunction with affordable housing programs in connection with claims filed in connection with FEMA trailer fires. The matter was successfully resolved through a summary judgment dismissing the client from the lawsuit altogether and absolving the client from all liability ($0).
- Lead counsel for an Atlanta-based general contractor in connection with enforcing subcontract claims and defending materialmen and laborer liens arising out of a dispute surrounding a 330 unit, 20 building apartment complex located in Baton Rouge, which also involved representation before the Louisiana Contractors’ Licensing Board and the Contractors’ Licensing Law, La. R.S. 37:2150, et seq.
- Bankruptcy counsel for a bank and trust company in connection with claims asserted against a large apartment complex in Baton Rouge, and competing claims from and against construction-related creditors.
- Represented bankruptcy trustee in $600 million lawsuit against a big four accounting firm.
- Lead counsel for the subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company defending indemnity and single business enterprise claims arising out of a previous oil and gas contamination suit.
- Lead counsel for a number of oil and gas operators in a mass tort suit filed by the SLFPA-E for damages arising out of oil and gas operations.
- Lead counsel for an independent exploration company involved in a dispute concerning an Area of Mutual Interest (AMI) and interpretation of a series of Joint Operating Agreements.
- Represented major utility company in federal court in Nebraska in suit to cancel, for material breach, long-term coal transportation contract with a national railroad company.
- Defended major utility company in fraud and breach of contract suit to rescind co-ownership agreement in connection with the design and construction of $4.2 billion nuclear power plant, in federal district court and bankruptcy court.
- Defended California winery in civil anti-trust action involving liquor industry.
- Prosecuted landowner’s multi-million-dollar civil damage claim against national timber company for breach and termination of long-term timber lease contract.
- Represented various businesses in federal criminal anti-trust investigations and prosecutions for alleged price fixing.
- Represented SEC-appointed equity receiver to prosecute civil securities law fraudulent conveyance and professional malpractice claims to recover money for victims of multi-million-dollar nationwide Ponzi scheme.
- Representation of and lead counsel for a multi-national bitumen roofing material manufacturer in connection with a complex multi-party construction litigation and a Chapter 11 (reorganization) bankruptcy proceeding in New Orleans, LA.
- Representation of and lead counsel for an ethylene and propylene-based specialty and intermediate chemical manufacturer in connection with complex industrial and work-place accidents and assorted personal injury matters.
- Lead defense counsel for insurance company and its underwriter in connection with multiple automobile-related personal injury lawsuits.
- Defense counsel for Livingston Economic Development Council, Inc. in connection with litigation arising out of a fatal railroad collision at an Industrial Park in Walker, LA.
- Defense counsel for local economic development council in connection with litigation arising out of a fatal railroad collision at an industrial park in Walker, LA.
- Defense counsel for a specialty and intermediate chemical manufacturer specializing in ethylene and propylene oxide-based chemicals in connection with workers’ compensation and personal injury claims at the Plaquemine facility.
- Defense council for oil and gas exploration company in connection with litigation arising out of conduct at an offshore platform in Eugene Island Block 300 involving a subsea mudline tree construction project.
- Bankruptcy counsel for locally owned community bank in connection with claims asserted against a large apartment complex in Baton Rouge an competing claims from and against construction-related creditors.
Practice Contact
Practice Attorneys
- Allie J. Amedee
- Sean P. Avocato
- Kari “Kiki” A. Bergeron
- John Stone Campbell III
- Leah Canaday Cook
- Yadira Crespo-Orosco
- A. Michael Dufilho
- Tom S. Easterly
- Andrew Wallace Eversberg
- Ryan K. French
- Brett P. Furr
- Peyton T. Gascon
- Tristan G. Gruspier
- Edward D. Hughes
- Amy C. Lambert
- Jon N. “Blue” Loup
- Amy Groves Lowe
- Lloyd J. Lunceford
- John A. Milazzo, Jr.
- John Ashley Moore
- Johnathan A. Moore
- Cameron A. Murray
- John P. Murrill
- Rick J. Norman, Jr.
- Bethany Breaux Percle
- Matthew Bond Pettaway
- Harry J. “Skip” Philips, Jr.
- David J. Shelby
- Savannah Walker Smith
- Vincent “Trey” Tumminello, III
- Michael S. Walsh
- Marc S. Whitfield
- John Forrest Ward, IV