Business and Commercial Litigation

Van Dyke & Associates, APLC has extensive experience representing clients in business and commercial litigation matters locally, throughout California, and (with the assistance of local counsel) in other jurisdictions in the United Sates. We regularly work on cases at the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal courts. With the survival of their businesses often at stake, both plaintiffs and defendants turn to us, with our clients having spanned the spectrum from sole proprietorships to Fortune 500 companies. We strive to implement strategies designed to achieve our clients’ objectives in a cost-effective and timely manner from prelitigation planning through filing a complaint or answer and cross-complaint, discovery, and trial or arbitration. Those strategies, which are frequently re-examined throughout the course of a matter, include not only planning for litigation but also evaluating if and when to discuss settlement or propose alternative dispute resolution. In our experience, favorable settlements based upon avoiding the risk and cost of litigation often require the other side to know that we and our clients are proceeding to prepare their cases for trial and will see a matter through to a litigated end if it is not otherwise resolved. All of this requires forthright and regular attorney-client communication from the time a client first contacts us until the matter is ultimately resolved.

Our attorneys have over 40 years of experience actively litigating matters at all levels of the state and federal systems. In addition to representing clients in such matters, we also have spent time serving as a pro tem judge at both the trial and appellate levels, as a private arbitrator, and as a mediator, which gives us a perspective beyond that of someone who has only been a litigator.

Our diverse areas of experience include:

• Fraud and other business tort claims
• Contract and transactional litigation
• Real property and lease disputes
• Breach of fiduciary duty claims
• Insurance coverage disputes
• Bad faith and unfair business practices
• Injunctions
• Licensing disputes
• Loss of business opportunities
• Royalty disputes
• Corporate governance matters
• Partnership and shareholder derivative actions
• Purchase and sale agreements
• Restrictive covenants and non-compete agreements
• Uniform commercial code matters