Practice Areas

Babst Calland attorneys focus on discrete areas of law, allowing each attorney the depth of knowledge that comes from dedication to one particular area.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") is an alternative means of resolving business disputes. In certain circumstances, litigation and trial may not be the best solution. ADR may provide a more expeditious and cost-effective means of dispute resolution while preserving business relationships and protecting confidentiality.

Business Services

Babst Calland's Business Services Group has handled national and international multi-million dollar mergers and acquisitions as well as other complex transactions in a highly efficient manner. Babst Calland attorneys have represented both domestic and foreign companies of varying sizes, including Fortune 500 corporations. Babst Calland's Business Services Group also provides representation in numerous other business areas, including real estate, securities and intellectual property. 

CLIMATE CHANGE

Babst Calland’s Climate Change Group draws upon more than twenty years of experience in counseling the business community on complex air regulatory issues in the context of environmental compliance, civil litigation, and corporate transactional matters to advise clients on emerging climate change developments. The Climate Change Group provides targeted, practical, and cost-effective advice to clients in the energy, manufacturing, and service sectors.  

Construction Law

Babst Calland’s Construction Services Group is involved in the day-to-day representation of contractors and subcontractors, owners and developers, architects and engineers as well as entities involved in construction project financing. Babst Calland has provided legal services to clients in connection with a broad range of construction projects, such as: commercial developments, heavy highway and bridge construction, power plants, sports complexes, airports, parking garages, office buildings, schools and other municipal buildings.

Debtor/Creditor Rights

Babst Calland’s Debtor/Creditor Rights Group provides practical, timely, no-nonsense and cost-effective advice and services to individuals and businesses facing a vast array of “distressed business" issues. Our attorneys have counseled Chapter 7 and 11 Debtors, Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors, secured and unsecured creditors, lending institutions, insurance companies, trustees and receivers in bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy court proceedings throughout the country. Our attorneys also routinely advise clients in out-of-court restructuring or liquidations as well. Experience dictates that the sooner the Group is involved, the more effective it can be.

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR

Babst Calland’s Employment and Labor Services Group possesses broad capabilities to guide employers through the maze of state and federal laws and regulations. Services of the Employment and Labor Services Group include counseling to avoid human resource problems, defending employers against discrimination claims, wrongful discharge claims and employee benefit claims, as well as handling restrictive covenant and trade secret litigation. Our Employment and Labor Services Group also possesses vast experience dealing with unions, whether it be an employer that has a workforce currently represented by a union or resisting union-organizing activities.

Environmental Health and Safety

Each attorney in Babst Calland’s Environmental Health & Safety Services Group has acquired focused experience in discrete areas such as air pollution, industrial and municipal wastewater management, hazardous and solid waste, complex site remediation, natural resource damages, chemical regulation and occupational safety and health. Babst Calland attorneys closely track the development of applicable federal and state regulatory programs, resulting in a fundamental understanding of their application to our clients’ specific needs.

Intellectual Property

Babst Calland’s IP litigation lawyers understand new technologies, have proven skill in handling complex intellectual property cases and have substantial trial experience. Our trial skills, combined with the remarkable scientific and engineering backgrounds of Babst Calland lawyers, enable us to develop strategies that maximize your IP litigation position, and to succeed whether in an injunction hearing trial or negotiated resolution.

Litigation

Babst Calland’s Litigation Services Group is committed to aggressive yet cost-effective representation of its clients. The attorneys in this practice area have counseled and represented clients in a wide range of matters, including complex commercial, environmental and construction cases. The firm handles cases in state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as in alternative dispute resolution forums. Respected and responsive, the Litigation Services Group is well poised to continue addressing our clients’ needs in today’s complex litigation environment.

MuniciPal Law

Babst Calland's public sector services group represents both public and private clients on the full array of legal issues encountered in the governmental realm. Our lawyers serve as solicitors, special counsel and private legal counsel.

Natural Resources

Babst Calland’s Natural Resources Group pulls together lawyers from a variety of disciplines — environmental, labor and employment, corporate and transactional, real estate, land use, and litigation — each of whom have substantial experience representing clients in the coal, natural gas, oil, and aggregates industries. This group’s extraordinary breadth and depth of industry knowledge and experience enables them to handle energy and natural resource legal needs effectively and efficiently, with little or no learning curve.

Real Estate and Land Use

Commercial real estate transactions involve a broad spectrum of legal needs in today’s increasingly complex regulatory and economic climate. Successful completion of real estate transactions requires expertise beyond traditional principles of real estate law. Babst Calland’s Real Estate Services Group provides integrated, full service legal representation in all aspects of commercial real estate law.

Toxic Tort

Babst Calland’s Toxic Tort Litigation Group pulls from a depth of technical knowledge to defend clients on a wide range of toxic tort cases. The firm’s strong background in chemical and environmental regulatory work, coupled with business-minded litigators having strong technical and science backgrounds, has made Babst Calland a clear choice for defendants and potential defendants of all sizes for the past 15 years.