Criminal Law

• Fraud
  We defend clients against class actions across many industries and legal issues, including discrimination, consumer fraud, breach of contract, and wrongful detention of shoppers in retail stores. We also advise on best practices to limit exposure to class actions.... Learn More
• Restraining Order

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  We assist public corporations, closely-held companies, and start-ups in shareholder disputes and other securities-related litigation. We also advise clients on corporate formation, resolving disputes among founders, post-merger integration, and corporate governance reforms.... Learn More
• Business Disputes
  We litigate and arbitrate commercial contract disputes in Federal and State Courts and in various arbitral bodies including the American Arbitration Association (AAA), International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Society of Maritime Arbitrators of New York (SMA), and the Transportation Lawyers Association (TLA).... Learn More
• Business Transactions
  Robert Joyce is the firm's managing partner. He has extensive experience in advocacy and trial practice. Robert has been lead counsel for clients in major complex litigation in state and federal courts nationwide. He has earned a reputation for careful, innovative, aggressive and effective representation. His practice extends to numerous areas, including insurance and reinsurance, toxic torts, products liability, professional liability, directors and officers, construction, commercial litigation, environmental, and bad-faith litigation. Robert is the chair of the firm’s risk transfer and insurance coverage group and has particular expertise in navigating the intersection between contract, tort and insurance coverage law. He regularly counsel’s clients worldwide on a variety of insurance, reinsurance and other risk transfer issues and litigates and arbitrates in these areas in numerous jurisdictions throughout the United States and Europe. In the commercial area, he represents multinational clients in disputes arising out of commercial transactions.
• Construction Contracts
  Our lawyers have defended, prosecuted, negotiated and tried commercial cases involving UCC sale of goods, international transactions, UCC secured transactions, real estate mortgages, intra-corporate disputes and dissolutions, construction contracts, distribution agreements, and many more.... Learn More
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Part of gaining financing is protecting the business’ product. If a business is manufacturing a product, it should have proper intellectual property protection through trademarks, copyrights, and licensing. Without that protection, it may not be able to garner financing. Businesses often have to defend against claims that they breached another company’s intellectual property rights.
• Unfair Competition

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  Littleton Joyce represents management concerning employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblower, wrongful termination, and workplace tort claims. We advise employers on the entire spectrum of workplace issues, including disability and accommodation, reorganizations and reductions in force, hiring-related concerns, family and medical leave, employee privacy, independent contractor and intern issues, drug testing, and employee discipline and discharge. Our attorneys work with employers to develop effective employee policies, procedures, handbooks, and forms that minimize workplace risks and protect employers and management when disputes arise. We assist clients in working through complex issues informally whenever possible, but when litigation becomes necessary, we partner with our clients to develop litigation strategies that not only resolve the dispute, but also maintain and further the business mission of the employer.... Learn More
• Employment Discrimination
  Our labor and employment law attorneys represent public, private, domestic and multinational employers in all phases of employer/employee relations and employment-related disputes. We defend employers in federal and state court, arbitration tribunals, and before administrative agencies, such as the Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board. We represent employers and management in a broad array of litigation matters, including multi-claimant proceedings and single-plaintiff actions involving employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, ERISA, wage and hour, unfair business competition and whistleblower claims. We are also experienced in assisting employers with the protection of trade secrets and other confidential information. In addition to our litigation expertise, our attorneys are also trusted advisors and offer day-to-day employment advice and recommendations, transactional services, and preventive training to our clients.
• Employment Contract
  Our attorneys have significant experience in representing employers in disputes involving unfair competition, covenants not to compete, duty of loyalty, trade secrets and other issues that come into play when losing or adding a key employee. We advise clients on protecting valuable trade secrets and confidential information, including the review, negotiation, and drafting of complex employment contracts that restrict post-employment competition and solicitation, as much as possible under the applicable state law. If the threat of stolen trade secrets or confidential information exists, we can immediately take action in litigation to prevent it by seeking temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions.... Learn More
• Employment Litigation
  Also, when financing a venture, businesses need to allocate funds for regulatory requirements, including employment matters. Businesses must provide employees with proper working conditions and equipment. They should be prepared to defend themselves when employees file employment claims.
• Sexual Harassment
  Littleton Joyce provides on-site training to managers, supervisors, and human resource professionals on such employment-related subjects as sexual harassment prevention and response, the art of hiring, managing, and firing within the confines of ever-changing employment laws, conducting effective investigations, and avoidance and response to workplace violence. Our training is tailored to our clients’ industries and empowers managers and supervisors to use the law as a foundation for sound decision-making and reducing the risk of litigation.... Learn More

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Title and boundary disputes arise when parties disagree about who owns property and what area the property covers. An easement dispute is similar. An easement, or the right to use another’s land for a specified purpose, can significantly alter an owner’s or developer’s property rights. Generally, the property deed will delineate easement rights, but sometimes the easement right is in a separate document. Furthermore, there are easements by law and easements due to continued use when a property owner did not step forward to protest use of the property. Developers or other parties of interest may want to litigate such matters in court.
• Premises Liability
  Premises liability claims - Fitness centers, gyms, pools, resorts and sporting event sites such as ski slopes, stadiums, golf courses, playing fields, and other hospitality premises bring together spectators, guests and participants who may be injured by objects or people on the field of play or off it. Premises liability claims inevitably follow. Defenses turn on demonstrating the reasonable efforts made to maintain a reasonable degree of safety commensurate with the inherent risks of the activity, shifting responsibility to those who bear it under contracting or the law, and examining the role the claimant or others may have played in causing the injury.
• Construction Litigation
  Our lawyers have decades of experience in coverage litigation and arbitration, including serving as lead counsel in some of the largest coverage cases of the past two decades. They have investigated, negotiated and tried cases throughout the country in subject areas such as: Advertising Injury, Business Torts, Intellectual Property, Asbestos, Silica, Lead, Mold and other Toxic Torts, Bad Faith, Class Actions, Construction Defect, Environmental Liability, First Party, Fraud, and Reinsurance.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Our lawyers help clients structure and document their transactions to avoid potential problems. From commercial or industrial contracting and subcontracting relationships to real estate transactions and mortgage loans to inventory or equipment collateralized financing and leasing, we have assured that the deal is done right to minimize the risks of future events.... Learn More
• Easement
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  We help our clients successfully resolve a wide range of real estate disputes including: multi-state foreclosure; construction disputes; sales contract enforcement and cancellation; commercial landlord-tenant; brokerage disputes; and, enforcement of option contracts.
• Property Damage
  Toxic/Environmental – There may be environmental issues arising from transportation spills and accidents, along with toxic exposure and property damage claims.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  A Littleton Park team led by partner Eric Goldberg and of counsel Bryon Friedman successfully obtained an order dismissing the contract claims in a third-party complaint against our healthcare client in New York state court.   The third-party plaintiff, a medical diagnostic company, asserted claims against our client for contractual indemnity and breach of contract for failure to procure insurance in connection with the underlying personal injury lawsuit.  The New York Supreme Court, Suffolk County, dismissed those contract counts under CPLR 3211(a)(1) because the contract at

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Our lawyers protect designers and producers in the art, media, entertainment and fashion industries, with expertise in publicity rights, privacy, copyright, gallery law, royalties, and unique tax and estate planning issues concerning artistic works.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  When things don’t go as planned, developers may face foreclosure due to unpaid premiums. In such situations, developers need strong representation to handle loan workouts, collection matters, trustee actions, deficiencies, and bankruptcy. Often, these matters require litigation.