Practice Areas

Our ADR team has years of experience in the federal and state courts and can assist businesses and individuals in avoiding protracted litigation and its concomitant costs and burdens.

Our Antitrust practice encompasses the full breadth of antitrust matters including criminal litigation, civil litigation (including class actions), and counseling clients in such area of M&As, distribution arrangements, and sales and pricing policies.

Our attorneys have won appeals in the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, among others.

We represent leading businesses, their directors and partners, financial advisors, and shareholders and creditors in adversarial and summary proceedings, many venued in the nation’s preeminent business tribunal, the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Montgomery McCracken’s Catastrophic Sports Injury Defense Practice Group has a national reputation for its successful representations of colleges, universities, and health care professionals in high-exposure sports-injury cases.

One of Montgomery McCracken's flagship practices, the firm has developed a national reputation for its knowledge, experience, and effectiveness in contesting class certification motions and, when necessary, handling class action litigation to conclusion or settlement.

The commercial litigation practice covers a full complement of disciplines. Our litigators have a wealth of experience in judicial, agency and ADR proceedings, and handle a wide range of individual and corporate disputes.

Montgomery McCracken has a dedicated team of attorneys that provide counseling and legal assistance to clients in the consumer financial services industry.

The practice group offers an interdisciplinary practice, from proactive solutions such as counseling clients to implementing policies and procedures, to responding quickly to a data breach, and defending clients in litigation.

Our group possesses a wealth of practical experience handling electronic discovery matters in federal and state courts supported by our expertise in both the legal and ever-changing technological aspects of discovery.

We represent media, corporate and individual clients in litigation and counseling matters in a wide range of matters involving first amendment disputes.

We counsel and defend local, county and state government in federal and state court, and before administrative agencies in a wide variety of litigated and pre-litigation matters.

Our Institutional Response Group provides wrap-around crisis management services to our clients in the public, private, college and university setting. We handle all aspects of Title IX, VAWA & Clery Act policy preparation, compliance guidance, reporting, training, investigations, advising, and adjudication.

Attorneys in our Insurance Recovery Practice Group understand the stress and uncertainty that comes with losses experienced during interruptions to everyday business operations. COVID-19 and the current shutdown present a dramatic challenge for which impacted businesses need relief. If you have insurance coverage for those losses, our team will help you get it.

Our Labor and Employment practice has extensive experience in all aspects of labor and employment law, and serves employers throughout the United States.

The Maritime and Transportation group at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP represents marine, intermodal, trucking, rail, and energy interests, and has also represented pipe lines and at times air carriers and their respective insurers.

Montgomery McCracken serves as national, regional and local counsel in class actions, multi-district litigation, and individual products liability and toxic tort claims, throughout the country and abroad.

Montgomery McCracken's Professional Responsibility Law practice provides experienced and skilled representation of attorneys before the Disciplinary Board of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and its Hearing Committees.

Our Sexual Misconduct Liability Practice Group provides comprehensive risk management, investigation and litigation defense services to an array of insured and self-insured clients facing sexual misconduct, assault, harassment, and other abuse-related claims.

Our attorneys counsel and represent employers in disputes involving trade secrets, noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements, the employee duty of loyalty, and similar matters in state and federal courts.

Our experienced attorneys, led by former prosecutors with the DOJ, provide legal counsel to entities and individuals requiring defense in criminal matters, internal investigations, fraud-related civil litigation, and negotiations with governmental authorities.

We counsel clients in establishing a plan to help business owners achieve their goals. We address the challenges of family, employees, customers and competitors during and in anticipation of times of change in ownership and management.

Our clients range from the traditional “brick and mortar” businesses to cutting edge web companies. Our attorneys have assisted many well-known international, national and local firms in forming, growing, and prospering.

We advise employers and providers on the multitude of retirement and profit sharing plans, deferred compensation arrangements, stock option plans, insured and self-insured health and welfare plans, and other fringe benefits.

Our team has a deep understanding of the complexities involving family governance issues and generational conflicts. Our attorneys provide day-to-day counseling and advise clients on long term strategic planning to both single and multi-family offices.

Montgomery McCracken’s financial services lawyers offer a rare combination of financial, legal and business experience and the ability to deliver cost-effective legal services to a variety of financial services clients nationwide.

We provide specialized knowledge and experience in wide range of matters facing healthcare providers. Our services include structuring business arrangements to achieve client goals while avoiding potential regulatory pitfalls. We also assist clients with corporate compliance programs and antitrust matters, professional liability issues, and licensure disputes.

Our Labor and Employment practice has extensive experience in all aspects of labor and employment law, and serves employers throughout the United States.

Our Private Capital and Emerging Companies practice draws attorneys from practice areas that are integral to supporting those working at the crossroads between the law and innovative technology – corporate and securities, intellectual property, labor and employment, tax, and litigation.

Montgomery McCracken has a well-established reputation as a firm with the resources and talent to provide clients with outstanding service in all areas of federal, state, local, and international taxation.

The Trusts and Estates practice encompasses the full range of estate planning, business succession planning and estate and trust administration services for individuals, closely-held businesses, charities, trusts, and estates.

We are dedicated to providing our clients with a comprehensive understanding of the laws and regulations surrounding cannabis. Our attorneys have experience working with highly regulated businesses to guide them through the continuously developing grid of state and federal regulations.

In recent years we have achieved significant victories for our clients in the computer and information technology industry including Microsoft Corporation, Accenture LLP, and numerous corporations of all sizes in their legal battles.

From mediation to arbitration to trials and appeals in state and federal courts, our litigators have handled a vast array of complex construction disputes on behalf of builders, owners, and design professionals.

The blockchain is rapidly transforming the world – smart contracts and decentralized ledger technology are reshaping the financial services sector, the global supply chain, the art world, and virtually every other field of human endeavor. At Montgomery McCracken, we understand the technologies driving this upheaval, the risks and benefits associated with them, and their emerging regulatory context. We are also proud to be among the first law firms to accept cryptocurrency as payment.

The Digital Crisis Management practice provides crisis management counsel to you and your company. We offer structural, firm-wide support to control the short and long-term legal, regulatory, and reputational ramifications of an enterprise-threatening internet attack.

We have counseled clients regarding the creation of and compliance with online privacy policies and other terms of use, intellectual property rights, domain name disputes, corporate structure, and financing matters.

We advise clients on today’s complicated technical and regulatory programs, such as Superfund and cleanup statutes, Brownfields redevelopment projects, storage tank programs, air and water permitting programs, and spill and release reporting programs.

Montgomery McCracken has earned a reputation for broad experience in representing institutions of higher education. We advise clients on day-to-day counseling and compliance activities, including training and policy development. 

We represent and counsel both domestic and foreign clients in complex litigation matters around the world. Our clients range from large, multinational Fortune 50 companies to well-established privately held companies.

Our attorneys offer interdisciplinary experience including real estate, environmental and municipal law. We handle matters before municipal zoning boards, and secure municipal, state, and federal permits and approvals for development projects.

Montgomery McCracken’s maritime and transportation lawyers are globally recognized leaders in cargo defense, marine pollution, and major casualty litigation. We have substantial experience handling agency investigations and proceedings as well as charter party arbitrations.

With one of the first and largest nonprofit law groups in the region, Montgomery McCracken has earned a reputation for broad experience in representing nonprofit organizations of all types and sizes.

Our pharmaceutical / life science practice members represent a broad range of legal and business disciplines.  We offer comprehensive services ranging from compliance, intellectual property, and distribution issues to litigation matters.

Our attorneys in the Real Estate practice have over 85 years of experience collectively. We represent business entities, individuals, and nonprofit organizations in all aspects of the real estate industry.

Our lawyers provide comprehensive legal services to athletes, entertainers, authors, event organizers, and other individuals, entities, and organizations involved in the sports, entertainment and amusement industries.