Bradley is a national law firm with a reputation for skilled legal work, exceptional client service, and impeccable integrity. We provide business clients around the world with a full suite of legal services in dozens of industries and practice areas.
With 13 offices located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia, we have an extensive geographic base to represent clients on a regional, national, and international basis. We frequently serve as national coordinating counsel, regional counsel, and statewide counsel for clients in various industries.
Although Bradley is a large law firm with more than 700 attorneys, our clients still enjoy the personal attention, responsiveness, and deep relationships they would expect from a boutique firm. Our attorneys combine legal experience and knowledge with a sophisticated understanding of industries to find practical, strategic solutions specifically tailored to our clients’ business operations. Bradley lawyers use their talents, judgment, work ethic, and experience to go above and beyond expectations to help clients meet their goals.
Bradley attorneys have extensive regional and national experience in representing debtors and lenders in Chapter 11 cases, bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy commercial litigation, out-of-court workouts, and restructurings.
We regularly serve as counsel to:
From initial contract negotiation and bid preparation to project close-out and dispute resolution, Bradley’s Construction Practice Group has handled every aspect of large-scale construction projects across the country and around the world. Our broad experience comes from our hands-on approach to managing both the business and legal challenges our clients face every day. We understand the sophisticated dynamics of the construction industry at home and abroad, and we deliver smart, real-world solutions to our clients.
Our construction lawyers travel extensively to advise clients on projects in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as more than 35 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and South America. We recognize that the nature of our practice demands spending time onsite at projects, with our lawyers engaging with clients face-to-face on matters as they develop.
Many of our lawyers earned degrees in engineering and architecture and have previous practical experience working in the construction industry.
Our legal team has helped our clients build a vast array of public and private projects of all sizes, including:
We represent clients in all sectors of the construction industry:
These clients include five of the top 10 construction companies in the United States, as ranked by Engineering News-Record.
Bradley advises corporate clients by understanding and assessing the market and the business enterprise, identifying risks and opportunities, and providing in-depth, actionable strategies throughout the life of a company. Whether a business client is a start-up or a large, high-profile corporation, our attorneys can initiate and formalize a corporate structure, work with equity and debt providers to finance a deal, or negotiate a critical transaction.
We are known for our ability to create value through our legal experience and client-centered service. As a result, our nationally recognized corporate practice guides and advises clients in a variety of industries. We work with emerging companies, family and closely held businesses, and publicly traded corporations, as well as venture capital and private equity funds and their operating companies. Our attention to ever-evolving laws and regulations and our knowledge of industry and market trends give our clients strategic advantages they need as they grow their businesses.
We also partner with skilled attorneys in other practice areas, who provide critical, in-depth knowledge in a range of industries. Clients benefit from our partner practices in areas including tax, healthcare, economic development, bankruptcy and restructuring, and litigation. Regardless of the industry or business model, our creative solutions focus on achieving the optimal results for our clients.
Bradley’s Labor and Employment Practice Group offers smart, experienced counsel tailored to our clients’ unique and specific needs. We provide public and private employers with the comprehensive labor and employment legal counsel needed to help maximize the competitiveness, productivity, and efficiency of their modern workforces. Our attorneys attended law schools such as Duke, Harvard, SMU, Stetson, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Washington & Lee, and other top-tier institutions, and many have 30 years of hands-on experience in handling virtually every type of employment case imaginable. Our clients rely on us when they face high-stakes, large-scale, and multi-plaintiff claims with the potential to seriously disrupt operations and profitability.
Labor and employment issues arise around the clock and in multiple time zones, far beyond any predictable eight-hour shift. As our clients’ workplaces change, so do we. Whether meeting onsite, in a video conference, or via email in the middle of the night, our attorneys offer a flexibility in services and staffing that mirrors the responsiveness employers value in their own enterprises.
Our industry experience is vast and includes representation of national, regional, and local employers, from large corporations to small businesses, as well as all types of government entities, including statewide agencies and local school systems. Bradley attorneys defend employers across the southeast and beyond in federal and state courts, as well as before mediators and arbitrators nationwide. We also have extensive experience with advocating for clients before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHA), Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and other government agencies.
We have achieved client successes in the full spectrum of sophisticated employment claims and issues, including:
For many companies, their most valuable asset is their intellectual property. Bradley’s Intellectual Property Practice Group demonstrates the skills and tenacity needed to protect and defend the valuable IP rights of our clients. Including more than 20 licensed patent attorneys, our practice offers a full range of services to protect and enforce the intellectual property rights of businesses across an array of sectors.
Bradley's Intellectual Property Practice Group maintains a national IP practice, with a specific concentration in the Southeast. We offer our depth and breadth of services to a diverse client base, ranging from startups and technology incubators to midsized companies and large multinational corporations. Nearly 100 of our clients are companies listed in the Fortune 500. Our IP services are completely scalable, which makes our attorneys suited to serve as ongoing counsel to help oversee and maintain IP assets or as counsel for one-off matters where success is critical.
We help businesses guard their critical market share and positioning through the acquisition of trademarks, copyrights, and patents. We also provide counsel on issues such as trade secret protection and unfair competition. To help our clients generate the most value out of the intellectual property holdings, our practice provides comprehensive counsel concerning intellectual property development, licensing, and commercialization.
When action is necessary to enforce the IP rights of our clients, our exceptional litigators handle patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and licensing-related litigation before federal, state, appellate, and administrative courts, as well as international forums and tribunals. Many of our attorneys have industry backgrounds and advanced degrees in key technical disciplines, including electrical and mechanical engineering, software and computing, and biochemistry. Our patent lawyers have deep and varied litigation experience in a range of cases, which they combine with their technical industry experience to perform as aggressive advocates for our clients before judges and juries.
Our IP attorneys are at the vanguard of the growing trade secrets field, as advancing technology and connectivity make it easier than ever to transmit proprietary data. We also maintain a position at the forefront of e-commerce and internet law, serving as counsel to leading companies in this emerging sector. In addition, we serve as leaders in the intersectional area of intellectual property and government contracting.
Our practice has deep experience in the areas of banking and finance, biotechnology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, software, telecommunications, and sporting goods. We also represent clients in many other industries, including:
Bradley’s Litigation Practice Group knows the stakes for your business in every case we litigate. From fighting bet-the-company lawsuits to resolving daily risk management issues and everything in between, we understand that helping clients achieve their business goals efficiently and cost-effectively is the greatest measure of success. Bradley has more than 320 litigators – comprising nearly half of the firm – who rely on the firm’s 155 years of experience nationally and internationally, in a wide expanse of industries, to provide the premier service and value that our clients require, whether trying cases in a courtroom or negotiating settlements in a boardroom.
We approach cases strategically, providing early case assessments for clients that help direct the course of the matter from preliminary dispositive motions and settlement talks through trial and appeal, if necessary. Should a matter proceed to trial, our lawyers leverage our track record of courtroom successes nationwide, including our success in appellate proceedings, to help clients evaluate the risks of litigation and balance those risks against their specific business goals.
Bradley’s Litigation Practice Group handles matters in nearly every substantive area of law that concerns our business clients, including:
Our creativity and skill in successfully handling high-stakes and complex cases are informed by our experience in litigating and arbitrating in every state, as well as every federal district and appellate court, across the United States. This deep bench of talent allows us to match our clients’ needs with the most-qualified litigation lawyers to deliver the results clients want, with the budget attention they require.
The Trusts and Estates Practice Group attorneys at Bradley provide sound and creative advice to individuals and families in structuring estate plans to meet their needs. We guide our clients through the maze of the estate tax rules to develop estate plans that meet both their tax and non-tax goals.
In developing and implementing estate plans for our clients, our attorneys not only discuss wills (or living trusts) with our clients, we also provide counsel on a wide range of other tax and non-tax issues including:
We represent a wide range of clients, including business executives, owners of closely held businesses, highly compensated employees and many other individuals and families with a net worth of anywhere from zero to millions.
In the area of probate law, we represent the personal representatives and beneficiaries of estates. Our practice is focused on guiding personal representatives through the probate process and preparing both federal estate and state inheritance tax returns. We also engage in post-mortem planning to minimize estate taxes. In the event of a will or trust contest or other probate litigation, attorneys on our Trusts and Estates team work closely with the firm's litigation attorneys to resolve the dispute in the best interest of the client using a timely and cost-effective approach.
