Litigation and Dispute Resolution

“Clayton Utz acts on some of the most complex litigation in Australia”. Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2007)

Clayton Utz' Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution practice is one of the largest in Australia with over 60 partners and 300 fee earners across the country, giving our clients, wherever they are, access to the full spectrum of litigation services, and our breadth of expertise.

We are pioneers in the development of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) techniques and our lawyers have a strong focus on the use of ADR to avoid litigation. When litigation is unavoidable, however, we are the lawyers that clients turn to, particularly when faced with "bet the company" litigation. Our lawyers are recognised as having the greatest market experience in critical, complex, high-profile disputes, having acted in some of Australia's (and the world's) best-known cases.

We give swift, accurate, cost-effective advice to clients from a range of sectors such as retail, energy and resources (including mining), financial services, media, pharmaceuticals, leisure and gaming, superannuation funds, aged care, manufacturing and property on:

• the Trade Practices Act (especially Part IV and Part V)
• commercial contracts disputes
• legal professional privilege
• document retention
• directors' duties
• professional liability
• schemes of arrangement
• securities litigation
• shareholder disputes
• reputation management and defamation
• regulatory investigations
• proportionate liability
• Royal Commissions/Commissions of Inquiry/coronial inquests
• fraud and white collar crime
• litigation risks emerging from the current global financial crisis.
  

Our general commercial litigation practice is bolstered by specialist expertise in other areas:

Administrative and Public law

Class Actions

Competition

Environmental and Toxic Tort Litigation

Insurance and Risk

Intellectual Property

International Arbitration

Pharmaceutical and Medical Device regulation

Privacy

Product Liability

Restructuring and Insolvency

White Collar Crime and Investigations