Regulatory & Compliance
This group handles questions involving FCC regulations and telecommunications policy.
What is Communications & Technology?
This type of litigation involves pharmaceutical patent disputes.
What is Hatch-Waxman Litigation?
This group works with creditors, ad hoc committees, indenture trustees, and distressed lenders.
What is Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy?
Warner Bros., Pixar, Yves Saint Laurent, Lacoste, Christian Louboutin, Tesla, LG, and Mars are clients of this group.
What is Trademark?
This group helps contacts with workplace safety policy questions.
What is Labor, Employment & OSHA?
This group helps clients navigate privacy laws like GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, and the FTC Act.
What is Privacy, Data Protection & Data Security?
This group secured a renewed preliminary injunction in Iowa federal court blocking a law on school library book removal.
What is Complex Litigation?
Robert Pluth and Jeffrey Tate co-lead this practice focused on “paying the piper.”
What is Tax?
The famous 1988 Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. case involved this practice area.
What is Copyright?
This group helps clients preserve wealth so even their great-grandchildren won’t have to worry about money.
What is Private Clients, Trusts & Estates?
This group advises on customs/import compliance, export controls, sanctions, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
What is International Trade & Investment?
This group would defend a company facing litigation over allegedly defective car seats.
What is Product Liability & Mass Torts?
This group could help a CEO acquire sites for a new data center.
What is Real Estate?
This group would have been the go-to during the 1990s “Pepsi Points” campaign.
What is Advertising & Promotions?
Lobbying is this group’s favorite thing to do.
What is Government Relations?
This group helps clients with product development, growth strategies, and FDA-related regulatory issues.
What is Food, Drug, Medical Device & Cosmetic?
This group represented a U.S. telecommunications company in a NAFTA claim against Mexico.
What is International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution?
This practice often works with real estate, bankruptcy, restructuring, health care, corporate, and tax lawyers.
What is Finance?
This is approximately how many active patent applications AFS manages.
What is 34,900?
This practice represents insurers rather than policyholders.
What is Insurance & Reinsurance?
This group advises CEOs and companies on sustainability, ethical practices, and ESG compliance.
What is Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)?
Sam Bankman-Fried probably should have called lawyers from this practice group.
What is Government Enforcement & White Collar?
This group handles issuing shares, regulatory compliance, and transparent financial reporting.
What is Corporate & Securities?
This group advises on agreements restricting employees from joining competitors after leaving a company.
What is Trade Secrets?
This group primarily represents dealers and dealerships.
What is Automotive?