Litigation
Tesser Ruttenberg & Grossman is an AV-rated law firm comprised of skilled and aggressive attorneys. The firm handles most types of civil disputes within the state of California. We approach litigation matters aggressively, but with an eye towards the most efficient use of our clients’ resources. The depth of the experience of our litigators ensures that we can successfully serve all of our clients’ litigation needs, whether involving business matters, construction and construction defect claims, real estate issues, employment-related claims, copyright disputes, insurance matters, mold claims, or other types of cases. In some of these cases, we represent the defendant, and in other cases we represent the plaintiff. We believe that the absence of any institutional bias against plaintiffs or defendants as a whole affords us a valuable objectivity and added perspective into the particular needs and strategies of both camps, not present at other law firms, which typically define themselves as “plaintiff” or “defendant” firms.
We handle both bench and jury trials, as well as hearings before various state administrative agencies. We are skilled and experienced in handling arbitrations, mediations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, and often provide litigation-avoidance counseling to our clients in many subject areas, such as labor and employment. We also handle appeals when the need arises, either in cases we previously handled through judgment or in cases our clients bring to us that other lawyers have handled through judgment.
Our litigation practice includes the following:
Corporate/Business Transactions
Tesser Ruttenberg & Grossman represents business clients ranging in size from multi-million-dollar companies to individual entrepreneurs and start-ups, involving a broad range of business transactions.
Our transactional services include the following:
- Formation of partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations
- Acquisition and sale of businesses
- Corporate maintenance and governance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Corporate restructuring
- Commercial agreements, distribution agreements and licensing agreements
Employment and Labor
Tesser Ruttenberg & Grossman provides its clients with advice and counseling in anticipating of resolving employment and labor-related claims. Although our emphasis is on litigation prevention, that is, minimizing our clients’ exposure to costly litigation and administrative claims, when employment disputes cannot be resolved, we zealously and aggressively litigate our clients’ cases in state and federal courts. Our attorneys represent both management and employees in all types of employment issues and labor-related issues. We have found that the experience gained through the representation of employees has provided invaluable knowledge and perspective that has proven to be very useful when representing management. Similarly, the Firm’s representation of management has improved our ability to better guide our employee clients through what is often a harrowing litigation process. We believe that our experience on both sides of the aisle is unique among law firms, and of great benefit to our clients.
The firm’s range of employment services includes:
- Counseling regarding all aspects of employment relations and disputes
- Preparation and negotiation of employment, separation and confidentiality agreements
- Sexual harassment, discrimination and wrongful termination litigation
- Advice and counseling regarding wage and hour issues and disputes
- Design and audit of employment policy manuals
- Litigation of unfair competition claims
Entertainment
Tesser Ruttenberg & Grossman’s transactional entertainment business practice involves many areas of the entertainment industry, including music, motion pictures, and television. The Firm represents recording artists, record companies, production companies, financiers, writers, and producers. The Firm's activities include the drafting and negotiating of most types of agreements, including talent, licensing, publishing, financing, and production agreements. We also represent clients seeking to option, sell or acquire intellectual property rights.
The Firm has particular expertise in the representation of recording artists in the music industry. Over the years, the firm’s music clients have included artists such as the White Stripes, Puddle of Mudd, Morrisey, Jurassic 5, the Shins, and many others.
Trademark
The Firm provides counseling services beginning with the creation of a mark and continuing throughout the mark’s duration. We counsel clients about trademark selection, availability and use. We also file and prosecute their applications for registration in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We create strategies to maintain, license, defend and enforce trademark and intellectual property rights throughout the world. The Firm has a worldwide network of affiliated trademark attorneys and agents to initiate foreign trademark filings.
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