Transportation & Logistics

Never allow legal speedbumps to slow down your enterprise

We handle claims, licensing, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, employment law, and liability issues for trucking, rail, and air logistics companies—and the brokers that help shippers select carriers—while also serving efficiently and economically as their outside general corporate counsel. Fortune 500 producers of finished goods and raw materials also depend on us to advocate for them when goods are lost or damaged, or other problems arise.

We combine insight on logistics, safety, insurance, and contracts with in-depth corporate law capabilities and the bench strength to handle relevant tax, labor law, litigation, employment law, or environmental issues. When safety and service hour regulations change, we keep clients in compliance—and when major challenges loom, we help advise on legal and cost implications, helping carriers and shippers defend their business interests.

Our broad perspective, coupled with our national scope and full-service capabilities, makes our firm the counsel of choice for a wide range of logistics clients.

Our Services

• Helping logistics carriers with licensing, insurance issues, claims handling, liability issues, and corporate matters
• Advocating for carriers in disputes with their insurers
• Assisting self-insured companies with liability issues
• Represent shippers in loss and damage claims against carriers
• Represent shippers in railroad negotiations and contract issues (Including Surface Transportation Board rate cases)
• Review contracts for shippers and carriers to proactively identify potential concerns
• Represent sellers and buyers of trucking companies in merger and acquisition transactions
• Advising shippers and carriers on antitrust compliance
• Labor and employment law services, including creating employee handbooks, resolving wage and hour claims and discrimination allegations, and helping ensure proper record-keeping for driver time

Our Clients

• Motor carriers of freight and related broker operations
• Railroads
• Third-party logistics providers
• Warehouses
• Private air travel providers
• As outside general counsel, a national trade association that represents the transportation interests of the glass industry