Practice Areas
At Riley & Jacobson, PLC, we handle a variety of matters that are broadly defined as commercial disputes — from the relatively simple to the intricately complex. For many businesses, we serve as an auxiliary partner to in-house counsel, supporting and guiding clients as they navigate legal and financial questions.
Our firm’s lawyers have in-depth experience resolving business and commercial disputes, including matters involving antitrust law, class action suits, mergers and acquisitions, financial accounting, business torts, unfair competition, trade secrets, contract law, employment law, information privacy, bankruptcy, commercial law and banking, product liability, professional malpractice, and construction and real estate disputes.
While our attorneys handle client problems involving a variety of issues, we have particular expertise serving industries with a significant and growing Nashville presence, including finance, healthcare, and entertainment.
Securities & Corporate Governance
We have extensive experience in defending securities class actions, derivative litigation, and the lawsuits that typically follow the announcement of public company mergers and going private transactions. We represent large public corporations, Fortune 500 companies, privately held entities, and closely-held corporations. Our clients also include numerous accounting firms and financial institutions.
Our firm regularly engages in substantial and fast-paced discovery, preliminary injunction hearings, and dispositive motion practice in many of these cases. Members of our firm also have a great deal of experience representing clients in connection with SEC enforcement actions and before FINRA, CFTC, and other governmental agency forums.
Healthcare
With our comprehensive knowledge of the growing healthcare industry, we represent and advise numerous healthcare companies, hospitals (including for-profit, university, and non-profit systems), pharmacies, and healthcare professionals.
Our understanding of the regulatory climate in which our healthcare clients operate allows our attorneys to provide counsel in a wide array of areas, including parent corporation liability, qui tam actions, certificate-of-need applications, healthcare fraud matters, physician recruitment, and general business and commercial issues. We also regularly represent hospital systems in disputes with managed care payors, including cases involving the breach of network participation agreements, out-of-network reimbursement disputes, improper underpayments and recoupments, and medical necessity and other payment denials.
Intellectual Property & Entertainment
We represent and advise a variety of businesses on IP matters, including copyright, trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, and other intellectual property issues.
Our firm’s IP clients include major and independent record labels, music publishers, book publishers, healthcare providers, film companies, a variety of technology firms, artist and business managers, booking agencies, and other entities and individuals with intellectual property needs at the heart of their businesses.
