Advice and Advocacy in Commercial, Corporate and Partnership Disputes
Just as the breadth of our experience in business transactions and operations allows us to serve effectively as outside general counsel for many Greater Kansas City companies, our decades of experience with civil litigation on a wide range of business disputes can help a company find a realistic path toward the resolution of many different kinds of problems. Contact our office in Lee's Summit to work with trial lawyers who deliver skilled, cost-effective and resourceful service in business litigation.
Whether you're pursuing or defending a claim, our first step is to help you develop a realistic assessment of the relative strength of each party's legal position under the facts and law applicable to the case. Then our attorneys work with you to formulate a set of objectives that make sense for the situation and trace the sequence of steps necessary to achieve them. At all stages of the process, we're careful to develop litigation and dispute resolution strategies that are not only sufficient to meet an immediate challenge, but that also protect important continuing interests and relationships.
Although the civil dispute process is often complete at a stage far short of trial, we prepare for the possibility of trial from the earliest stages of the case. Bargaining leverage in settlement negotiations is frequently a function of your ability to prove your case in court, and our clients are quick to see the advantage of taking and keeping the initiative in trial preparation as the strength of their case develops.
We handle disputes that arise under contract theories, business torts, corporate or partnership disputes, and problems with municipal regulations and enforcement. In the more complicated range of cases, several of these might appear in the same case, and the number of parties might multiply well beyond the original plaintiff and defendant. Cross-claims and counterclaims can also multiply and even come to outweigh the original controversy as defined in the opening pleadings.
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Examples of the kinds of cases we handle in Missouri and Kansas include:
- Disputes between businesses over contract performance or payment
- Business lending disputes involving security interests or commercial mortgages
- Real estate disputes such as commercial landlord-tenant actions
- Construction contract disputes
- Employment law disputes
- Disputes over noncompete, nonsolicitation or confidentiality agreements
- Contract, fraud or nondisclosure claims related to the purchase of a business
- Disputes within ownership groups or partnerships over trade secrets, the duty of loyalty, conflict of interest, or misappropriation of business opportunities
- Shareholder disputes in closely held corporations
- Land use and zoning disputes with local or county agencies
- Eminent domain proceedings related to commercial property
- Consumer or commercial fraud cases
Many cases that arise under contracts will be governed by mediation or arbitration clauses, and other cases can be steered toward mediation in court-supervised settlement conferences. Our experience with alternative dispute resolution can help you make the most of these opportunities for a streamlined resolution to your case.
For more information about the scope of our practice, contact the Lee's Summit business litigation lawyers of Kapke & Willerth, LLC.
