Family Law

• Divorce
• Adoption

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Phillips Lytle LLP Partner Anna Mercado Clark, CIPP/E, to Serve as Panelist at “Women on the Record: Who Speaks & Why” Criminal Law Series Event at Fordham University School of Law
• Wrongful Death
• Sex Crimes
• Fraud
  Defended an international food provider in a federal securities class action stemming from the restatement of its financial statements after the discovery of an accounting fraud at one of its U.S. subsidiaries. Related investigations were conducted by the Department of Justice and the SEC.
• Theft
• Assault
• Identity Theft
  “NY’s New SHIELD Act and Identity Theft Prevention and Mitigation Services Act Enhance Protections for New York Residents’ Data,”
• Money Laundering
• Internet Crimes

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  We use our resident expertise in venture capital to bring entrepreneurs and investors together, to fuel the continued growth of the Albany market. Our expertise in venture capital, nanotechnology, mergers and acquisitions, banking and financial services, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, and litigation comes with seamless access to the full range of legal services available from our 46 firm-wide practice areas.
• Business Formation
• Business Disputes
  The Phillips Lytle Commercial Litigation Team has extensive experience in all phases of business disputes, including those involving banking, contracts, sales and product distribution, services, financing, construction, insurance coverage, joint ventures, employment, franchising, licensing, leasing, land use, real estate finance and development, energy, trusts, charitable organizations, shareholder and partnership disputes, consumer finance defense, professional liability, and machinery/technology warranties.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Providing legal services to a commercial farming operation with respect to intellectual property protection on farm equipment inventions and food and beverage products.
• Unfair Competition
  We are well versed in commercial statutes, antitrust and trade laws, securities laws, concessions laws, RICO, electronic discovery, cybersecurity, dealer acts, intellectual property laws, health care laws, and corporation and business organization statutes, as well as common law principles, including fraud, conversion, defamation, unfair competition, and tortious interference in all types of business disputes.
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination
  Providing counsel as it relates to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Fair Housing laws and the Employment Discrimination laws, as well as similar state and local statutes and ordinances
• Employment Contract
• Employment Litigation
  “COVID-19: Federal and New York State Leave Laws and Related Employment Issues,” Phillips Lytle Labor & Employment Webinar, April 2020
• Non-compete Agreement
  Representing numerous cannabis companies for ongoing outside counsel assistance, including employment and non-compete agreements, nondisclosure agreements and independent contractor agreements.
• Sexual Harassment

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Firm ranked in National Tier 2 for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants and National Tier 3 for Real Estate Law
• Premises Liability
• Construction Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions
  Home to Times Square, Rockefeller Center and Wall Street, New York City is arguably the business center of the world and Phillips Lytle is at home in the middle of it. Our New York City office focuses on commercial real estate transactions, including commercial leasing and real estate finance, commercial lending and trade finance, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, corporate transactions and counseling, and business and health effects litigation.
• Eminent Domain
  “Eminent domain could be used for site of new stadium: Legal process has been upheld in court in several recent prominent sports project,”
• Land Use and Zoning
  Phillips Lytle Partner Adam S. Walters Presented “Zoning and Land Use Law – the Latest and Greatest” at the 30th Annual Local Government Conference in Watertown
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  “The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019: Changes in New York Landlord-Tenant Law for Commercial and/or Residential Properties,” Phillips Lytle Real Estate Client Alert, October 2019
• Property Damage
  Successfully resisted class certification involving claims of personal injury and property damage brought by nearby residents of a large landfill

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Representing a large dairy against a Clean Water Act multiparty lawsuit alleging that its farming practices contaminated private drinking wells, and that airborne contamination resulted in personal injury and diminution in property values. We obtained a summary judgment ruling from the Northern District of New York, which was affirmed by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and included a precedent-setting award of legal fees to a prevailing defendant under the Clean Water Act.
• Auto Accidents
• Medicaid Planning

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  “Lawyers’ Duty of Competency: When Technology and Legal Ethics Intersect,” Trusts and Estates Law Section Spring 2021 Meeting, New York State Bar Association, May 2021
• Trusts
  “Inheritance Rights of Posthumously-Conceived Children and Posthumous Issues,” NYSBA’s Trusts and Estates Law Section Fall Meeting, September 2017
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  Our Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights practice encompasses all aspects of federal bankruptcy law as well as state and international laws governing secured transactions, creditors’ rights, fraudulent and other avoidable conveyances, receiverships, cross-border refinancings and restructurings, corporate reorganizations, and real estate. While the historical foundation of the practice is the firm’s representation of financial institutions, our attorneys also represent all types of secured and unsecured creditors; Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and indenture trustees; debtors; landlords; lessees; equipment lessors; acquirers; vendors and suppliers; utilities; and official creditor and equity committees.
• Foreclosure
• Tax Law
  “Tax Reform and Philanthropy: How Changes in Federal Tax Law Impact Charitable Giving and Charitable Organizations,”  “Bolster Your Boardroom Knowledge,” Phillips Lytle Not-For-Profit Seminar, October 2018
• Debt Collection
  Successfully resisted many purported Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) class actions by challenging the appropriateness of class representatives, class counsel and/or the claims for class treatment, and by asserting arbitration clauses in the underlying credit agreements.