Attorneys

Business and Commercial Bankruptcy

COOCH AND TAYLOR's Business and Commercial Bankruptcy practice includes broad involvement in a significant number of large Chapter 11 cases filed in the District of Delaware. While handling sophisticated matters, the Firm's bankruptcy attorneys pride themselves on providing personalized service to all their individual and corporate clients.

The department has extensive expertise in handling liquidation proceedings and many reorganizational and other commercial issues. Our bankruptcy attorneys represent a broad array of creditors in Chapter 11 cases including secured and unsecured creditors, trade creditors, landlords, equipment lessors, governmental entities and others.

They also represent parties in multiple types of bankruptcy litigation matters before the United States Bankruptcy Court, the United States District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. They have been involved in thousands of preference and fraudulent conveyance actions. Through these representations, the department has become adept at handling liquidation proceedings as well as reorganizational and other commercial, transactional and litigation issues.

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Construction Law

The Firm represents businesses, government entities, and individuals in all levels of construction law disputes, including owners (public and private), homeowners, condominium associations, developers, design professionals (architects and engineers), general contractors, construction management firms, trade contractors, subcontractors, and material and equipment suppliers.

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Family Law

Our family law attorneys understand the difficult emotional and financial decisions that our clients are facing. We are attentive to each client’s immediate needs and build a strategy to reach a long-term solution for each client. We know that it is usually favorable to negotiate an amicable and practical solution for your family in order to avoid the stress and cost of litigation. If an agreement cannot be reached, we are ready to go to trial to protect our clients’ and their children’s interests.

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Intellectual Property Litigation

Cooch and Taylor’s attorneys are leaders in the field of protecting companies’ intellectual property rights. Our litigation attorneys have secured large judgments on behalf of companies where intellectual property rights were being violated as well as successfully defended companies from the now, all too common, meritless patent infringement lawsuits. Our litigation team regularly handles expedited litigation in all of Delaware’s trial courts and is well equipped to move as fast as is often necessary to protect our clients’ interests.

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Litigation

The Firm handles a wide variety of labor and employment law matters for businesses and individuals, representing clients before all levels of administrative agencies, boards and tribunals as well as all levels of trial and appellate courts, both state and federal, throughout Delaware.

A former investigator for the Delaware Department of Labor, G. Kevin Fasic is the primary contact for labor and employment law issues, and his litigation experience includes employment discrimination, wage and hour disputes, prevailing wage and Davis Bacon, non-compete agreements, unemployment, child labor, whistleblower protection claims, unfair labor practices, minimum wage, federal civil rights claims, employment contracts, employee benefits, independent contractor disputes, and overtime claims. He represents employers and employees in these disputes at all levels of trial and appellate courts in Delaware, including the Superior, Chancery and Supreme Courts (state), as well as the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (federal).

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Real Estate

The COOCH AND TAYLOR Real Estate Department provides its clients with a variety of services in the purchase, sale or leasing of property as well as in the development and exchange of commercial and investment real estate. For its clients interested in residential real estate in Delaware and in nearby Chester County, Pennsylvania, it not only advises in the sale of properties but handles the purchase and refinancing of properties including, but not limited to, the preparation and review of Agreements of Sale, addenda, and leases, the execution of title searches and the examination and clearance of title to real estate.

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Trusts, Estates, and Tax

The attorneys in the Trusts, Estates, and Tax Group at Cooch and Taylor have assisted clients in all facets of trust and estate planning, estate administration, and fiduciary litigation in Delaware and Pennsylvania for over 50 years.

Practice areas include Trust and Estate Planning, Estate Settlement, Fiduciary Litigation, and Guardianships.

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Cooch and Taylor Attorneys at Law

Blake A. Bennett

Director

R. Grant Dick IV

Director

Douglas M. Hershman

Director

Christopher H. Lee

Director

R. Bruce McNew

Director

Robert W. Pedigo

Director

C. Scott Reese

Director

Dean R. Roland

Associate

James W. Semple

Director

Paula C. Witherow

Director

Business and Commercial Bankruptcy

Construction Law

Family Law

Intellectual Property Litigation

Litigation

Real Estate

Trusts, Estates, and Tax