Practice Areas
Corporate and Governmental Liability
Our Corporate and Governmental Liability Litigation practice group represents corporations and governmental entities, both directly and through their insurers. Our representation encompasses all aspects of liability litigation matters for our clients. Our lawyers are recognized for their aggressive, practical approach to litigation matters. Collectively, our lawyers have tried numerous cases to verdicts with an outstanding record of success.
Automotive and Transportation
We provide complete representation in claims arising from motor vehicle accidents. We represent individuals, corporations, motor common carriers, and insurers in direct actions.
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Civil Rights and Liability Defense
Our representation encompasses literally hundreds of local governments, including cities, counties, housing authorities, development authorities, and school districts. Our lead partner of this practice group is considered by many to be among the foremost governmental liability defense lawyers in the nation.
As the traditional shield of sovereign immunity has eroded, governments and their employees have been presented with a multitude of serious claims. Our lawyers are nationally recognized for their successful and aggressive defense of governmental entities and officials. We have handled cases involving virtually every aspect of governmental liability and have defended clients in a number of significant public official cases, including the landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Scott v. Harris.
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Commercial General Liability
FMG represents corporations, both directly and through their insurers, in commercial disputes and general litigation matters. Our claims experience includes cases of literally every kind, including products liability, negligence, errors and omissions, casualty and property, and personal injury. Our lawyers regularly handle these matters throughout the region, in both federal and state court.
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Directors and Officers Liability
Directors and officers claims involve defense of both for-profit and non-profit institutions. FMG has substantial experience in representing private and public companies, non-profits, public entities (including schools and community groups), homeowners’ association board members, insurance agency officers, health care providers, and third-party claims administrators.
Our experience also includes claims for breach of fiduciary obligations under ERISA, employment disputes, misstatement of financial reports, negligent acts with respect to avoiding damages to company property, and misuse of company funds.
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Education Law
FMG has represented a number of the region’s largest universities, private schools, and school districts. Our lawyers know the many needs and legal concerns of the modern public and private schools. From federal and state regulation to local litigation, our experience in counseling and defending educational institutions and schools means we can serve you in the most effective way possible.
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Health Care and Nursing Home Litigation
Our health care team has extensive experience in virtually all aspects of health care and related litigation. Our attorneys represent both public and private institutions as well as physicians, nurses, rehabilitation and restorative therapists, mental health professionals, registered dieticians, social workers, and other direct caregivers. Our attorneys have defended employment claims; contract claims; medical malpractice claims alleging neglect, injury, and death; fraudulent charting; medication errors; physical, mental, and sexual abuse; exploitation; breach of residents’ rights; and theft of property. In addition, our attorneys have represented health care institutions and professionals before licensing and regulatory agencies in disciplinary and licensure revocation proceedings.
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Insurance Coverage Disputes
FMG has an extensive insurance counseling practice and routinely advises clients on coverage issues such as the duty to defend, reservations of rights, the duties owed by insurer and insured to one another, and loss allocation issues. We also monitor the defense of matters that are defended by other law firms for our business clients and for excess carriers and advise on the adjustment and handling of first-party claims. FMG attorneys regularly handle large, complex liability and first-party coverage suits, routine coverage matters, interventions in ongoing liability lawsuits, declaratory judgment litigation on the duty to defend, “bad faith” litigation, appeals, and arbitration proceedings.
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Personnel and Constitutional Law
FMG lawyers have substantial experience representing public and private entities and insurers in all aspects of premises liability litigation. Our lawyers have defended suits throughout the region involving claims for slip and fall, negligent security, physical assault, and other liability matters.
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Premises Liability
FMG lawyers have substantial experience representing public and private entities and insurers in all aspects of premises liability litigation. Our lawyers have defended suits throughout the region involving claims for slip and fall, negligent security, physical assault, and other liability matters.
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Products Liability
Our attorneys bring their substantial trial and litigation experience to defend negligence and strict liability claims for the manufacture or sale of a corporation’s products. FMG lawyers have handled both class and individual claims throughout the region, in both federal and state court. Our attorneys aggressively defend cases to minimize liability and indemnity exposure and to achieve exceptional results.
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Professional Liability
FMG attorneys have substantial experience with professional liability claims, including claims against accountants, doctors, dentists, lawyers, teachers, architects, engineers, the clergy, corporate officers, and other professionals. We represent several major underwriters of these coverages as well.
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Public Safety
Virtually every aspect of public safety subjects law enforcement officers and local governments to potential liability under federal and state law. Our depth of experience is broad. FMG routinely defends law enforcement officers and local governments in claims involving excessive use of force, high-speed pursuits, false arrest, illegal searches and seizures, malicious prosecution, conditions of confinement, and prisoner rights.
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Zoning and Land Use
Our attorneys have extensive knowledge of the sometimes archaic world of real estate regulation. Our familiarity with local governments and their procedures means we are uniquely equipped to ensure successful resolution of zoning disputes, whether they occur in an administrative or judicial forum. From zoning appeals to sign ordinance disputes, our lawyers have been involved in every aspect of real estate regulatory issues.
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