Litigation
Some fights can't be handled quietly, and shouldn't be.
We represent and defend individuals, families, and their business interests who have been profoundly harmed by egregious wrongdoing or face the specter of existential threat by litigation. Our Litigation practice takes on high-stakes, mission-driven cases. We have tried numerous matters to verdict and award before judges, juries, and arbitration panels.
This practice draws on first-chair trial experience across civil rights, constitutional, and complex civil litigation, including federal civil rights enforcement leadership at the Department of Justice and decades of hard-fought results. We take these matters selectively, because the cases worth this level of commitment deserve nothing less.
Our litigation practice areas include:
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Civil Rights & Institutional Accountability
Manifest deprivation of fundamental civil rights, including First Amendment retaliation, Due Process denials, Equal Protection violations, and racial or religious discrimination. Student, faculty, and parents' rights matters, including Title VI and Title IX claims, harassment, abuse, and institutional retaliation.
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Reputational Harm
Defamation, financial deplatforming, "cancel culture" campaigns, emotional harassment, financial and employability sabotage, cyber-bullying, and doxxing.
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Employment Law & Workplace Disputes
Workplace violence; racial, gender, and religious discrimination (Title VII and §1981 claims); sexual harassment; defamation and blacklisting; and wrongful termination.
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Domestic Violence & High-Conflict Family Matters
Domestic violence and abuse, including financial domination, familial alienation, stalking, and vexatious legal proceedings. We accept high-conflict divorce and matrimonial litigation only where a client has committed to the collaborative divorce process and the opposing spouse has expressly refused to participate — divorce litigation, for us, is a last resort, not a first instinct.
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Special Branch Matters
Sometimes a case, conflict, or controversy defies definition or refuses to be pigeonholed in a specific practice area. If you, a family member, or your business have been wronged or wrongfully accused, call us.
Our litigation philosophy:
We are particularly interested in matters of the utmost seriousness and gravity — a crisis of extraordinary magnitude, a life-changing calamity. No matter how unpopular the cause or client may be, or how "unwinnable" the case appears, if the matter is one we believe in, and carries the potential to effect real change, we are game.
Given the severity of the cases we undertake, we purposefully do not accept many litigation engagements. That restraint is what allows us to devote the full measure of our attention, energy, and resources to your cause. We know what it takes to win when the deck is stacked — Gregory led federal civil rights enforcement at the Department of Justice, and between us, we've tried the cases other firms wouldn't touch, in venues that gave us no home-field advantage.
Over three decades, Gregory has represented countless professionals and institutions through exactly this kind of crisis — the moments where a career built over a lifetime can end in a single hearing, if the person standing next to you doesn't know exactly what they're doing.
