Complex Litigation

Business and commercial disputes, among individuals, companies, associations and governmental entities, vary in their substantive focus, but there is a common theme: the facts and the law intertwine with complications. The tools of litigation, sharpened over generations, must be used by lawyers with experience and judgment, to mediate, to investigate and to negotiate the issues which accompany every dispute, from an anti-trust claim to an aircraft disaster, from an energy contract to the siting of power plants, from an environmental review to a construction claim over transcontinental pipelines.

With the Oregon state legal rate of interest at 9% per annum, and with millions of dollars at stake in claims, a judgment in the future already may be one of the client’s most productive assets. A judgment obtained needs protection, through appeals that test the complicated processes that led to the judgment itself. Prejudgment interest, therefore, becomes an important ingredient in tracking the value of damages computed.