Founded in 1997, Berkowitz Oliver has grown to include approximately 30 experienced litigators, many of whom practiced at large law firms and have judicial clerkship experience. Our client list includes large Fortune 500 companies, as well as smaller, local entities and individuals. We represent businesses and corporate officers in civil litigation, arbitration, and criminal defense and investigations. Our attorneys are also committed to helping clients avoid the risk and costs of litigation, and we provide day-to-day counseling and consulting.
Our litigation experience covers a broad range of areas including employment, products liability, securities, unfair competition, white-collar criminal defense, automobile franchise, employee benefits, and professional liability (e.g., accounting, tax). We have handled the most sophisticated and complex matters, as well as higher-volume litigation dockets for specific clients.
We have offices on both sides of the state line in the Kansas City metro area: one in the Crown Center area in Kansas City, Missouri, and one in Prairie Village, Kansas.
The culture of Berkowitz Oliver is what drew our attorneys to practice together. We are hard-working, thoughtful, and dedicated to our clients and each other. Most of all, we listen, consider, and respond to each client’s individual situation to achieve the client’s goals.
BUSINESS ADVICE & COUNSELING
Although Berkowitz Oliver LLP was founded as, and remains, a trial-ready, litigation firm, much of our work involves helping our clients avoid the costs and risk of litigation. Berkowitz Oliver’s attorneys are trusted advisors to our clients in providing day-to-day advice and counseling on regulatory issues, best practices, and pre-litigation strategies. We work hard to understand our clients and help them run their businesses in a way to minimize litigation, but we remain ready and willing to initiate or defend an action should it be required.
Berkowitz Oliver routinely provides advice and counseling in the following areas:
Our attorneys have a solid track record of successfully representing clients in their most important civil litigation matters. Every attorney at Berkowitz Oliver is a litigator, and individuals have refined their practices to serve the unique industries, practice areas, and jurisdictional needs of our diverse and sophisticated client base. We regularly appear in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as in appellate courts and in arbitrations. We have tried many cases to verdict, and are often brought in as trial counsel on the eve of a high-stakes lawsuit. We also recognize that going to trial is not always in our clients’ best interest, and we work closely with clients and in-house counsel to develop a strategy that fits each individual case.
Attorneys in the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group have extensive experience handling complex criminal and regulatory litigation and government investigations. Every member of our team has significant courtroom experience; they are highly regarded trial and appellate counsel. Our attorneys represent individuals and all range of businesses (public, privately held and non-profit) in government investigations, and we conduct and counsel companies, boards and executives on internal investigations.
