Princeton
Duane Morris LLP
P.O. Box 5203
Princeton, NJ 08543-5203
USA
Phone: 609.631.2400
Fax: 609.631.2401
Street Address
Duane Morris LLP
100 American Metro Boulevard, Suite 150
Hamilton, NJ 08619
Duane Morris' Princeton office is strategically located in the vibrant Route 1 research and technology corridor. Our Princeton office serves the needs of New Jersey, national and international corporations and emerging growth companies as well as individuals, educational institutions and other entities.
Drawing on the vast resources of one of the nation's largest law firms, our Princeton lawyers bring national capabilities informed by local experience and are dedicated to finding effective solutions to the host of business and personal challenges that confront our clients in today's complex and rapidly changing professional environment.
Our Princeton lawyers are frequent lecturers and authors, and have achieved prominence in international, national, regional and state business and professional associations.
Range of Services
Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
The Princeton-based members of our national Trial Practice Group represent corporate and individual clients as well as governmental entities in all facets of civil litigation, from inception through trial and appeal throughout New Jersey, as well as nationally and internationally. Our litigators have experience across a broad spectrum of subject areas, from complex business and commercial disputes, class actions and patent, copyright and trademark to professional liability and employment matters. Our Princeton trial attorneys have substantial experience representing technology, pharmaceutical, healthcare and biotech companies, manufacturers and distributors, insurers and financial institutions. We are frequently involved in multijurisdictional matters and often work closely with lawyers from our other offices.
Our trial attorneys also counsel clients in resolving matters without conventional litigation through alternative dispute resolution options including national and international arbitration. Additionally, we are frequently involved in assisting clients in anticipating and avoiding litigation. Our lawyers and support staff have extensive experience with litigation technology, including database management of documents and depositions, digital video testimony and other electronic courtroom media, and issues relating to electronic discovery.
Corporate, Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions
Our corporate attorneys in Princeton advise early-stage and mature companies on a wide variety of corporate and securities matters. Our practice is focused on all aspects of securities, corporate finance and governance matters affecting public and private companies with a particular emphasis on growth companies accessing the capital markets. We work with our entrepreneurial clients in developing and implementing creative strategies to accomplish their corporate finance and acquisition objectives. Our attorneys also advise public companies of all sizes regarding compliance with ongoing reporting obligations and other securities laws. We are prominent members of various regional venture capital and technology organizations and have closed transactions in a variety of industries, including communications, software, supply chain and process management, premises and system security, financial services, pharmaceutical and franchise.
Employment Law
Our employment lawyers focus on problem prevention and proactive counseling, helping clients comply with state and federal laws that affect employment relations to reduce the risk of costly litigation. To assist clients in their compliance efforts, we conduct employment practices audits, develop employment policies and procedures, conduct on-site training programs and provide advice on hiring and terminations. When claims arise, our employment lawyers assist clients with confidential internal investigations. We also draft and negotiate employment agreements, such as executive contracts, noncompete agreements, confidentiality agreements and separation agreements. When disputes arise that cannot be resolved outside the courtroom, we represent clients in administrative proceedings and at trial in employment disputes ranging from harassment and discrimination to restrictive covenants, wrongful discharge and tortious interference.
Intellectual Property
The intellectual property (IP) lawyers in our Princeton office recognize the importance of intellectual capital to the success of our clients' businesses and understand how to uphold IP rights to increase their business opportunities. Our IP attorneys represent major corporations and universities in diverse technologies. Among those technologies are semiconductors, electronic displays, aeronautics, electronic systems, information technology, integrated systems, space systems, consumer electronics, material systems, medical devices and wireless systems. Our attorneys' global experience includes patent and trademark prosecution, litigation opinions and IP portfolio due diligence, as well as copyright, trade secret and brand protection law.
Princeton IP attorneys are members of the firm's national IP Practice Group. The group has been pivotal in the development of IP law and includes highly trained patent attorneys with academic and industry experience in, among other fields, physics, biosciences, materials, chemicals, polymers, electronics, computers and data networking, and telecommunications. Our lawyers have extensive experience with Internet and computer law, including domain name dispute resolution and software and Web site development agreements. We handle national and international registration and enforcement of trademarks and copyrights. Duane Morris IP litigators have substantial trial experience helping clients in disagreements over patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and licenses involving such intangible property.
International
Our International Practice Group integrates the services of attorneys from various disciplines who practice around the world, bringing together lawyers with international experience and enhanced sensitivity to cultural differences. In the area of international trade regulation, we provide advice regarding domestic and international regulatory and commercial aspects of trade in goods and services, including product labeling and other domestic and foreign regulations that affect imports and exports.
Working with other international lawyers throughout our firm, we also assist clients in setting up American subsidiaries and other inbound work and advise on exports and overseas investments. We maintain affiliations with foreign lawyers throughout the world.
Health Law
Our Princeton-based attorneys function as part of the firm's national Healthcare Practice Group to represent individual and institutional providers in meeting the challenges presented by legislative and economic reform in today's healthcare industry. Our health law attorneys advise a wide range of healthcare organizations, hospitals and clinical professionals in regulatory and corporate matters, contract and commercial litigation, labor and employment, real estate, compliance, managed care, credentialing, reimbursement and taxation issues. We serve as general and special counsel to a diverse group of healthcare institutions, professionals, not-for-profit agencies and for-profit companies serving the healthcare industry throughout the country. Our Princeton attorneys provide healthcare clients with transactional, tax and corporate advice, as well as representation in litigation in administrative, state and federal trial and appeals courts. We also represent clients and serve as arbitrators and mediators in hearings of all types involving complex medical/legal and managed care issues.
Complex Financial Transactions
Attorneys in our Princeton office represent clients in numerous types of complex financial transactions covering municipal finance, including affordable housing, as well as project and structured finance transactions. Our public finance attorneys represent national and regional investment banking firms underwriting tax-exempt and taxable state and local government debt, act as bond counsel and special tax counsel for issuers and represent domestic and foreign institutions providing credit enhancement for tax-exempt financing. Our project and structured finance attorneys represent clients in securitized and syndicated loans, participating and convertible loans, mezzanine and other hybrid loans and credit lease, synthetic lease and government lease financings. Our affordable housing practice includes representation of developers and investors in low-income housing tax credit projects.
Nonprofit Practice
Attorneys in our Princeton office represent nonprofit organizations in the broad range of specialized legal issues they face. We counsel nonprofits on corporate governance, including advice on the risks, duties and powers of their directors, committees and advisory bodies. We handle federal tax issues relating not only to §501(c)(3) organizations, but also those applicable to trade associations, social welfare organizations, political action organizations, social clubs and others. We have substantial experience in reorganizations, mergers and joint ventures.
Information Technologies & Telecommunications
Our Princeton attorneys, along with their colleagues in Duane Morris' other offices, are a dedicated group possessing specific industry knowledge and an interdisciplinary approach to the transactional, finance, regulatory and dispute resolution aspects of structuring and implementing a wide range of information technologies and telecommunications projects. This group cuts across numerous practice areas and its activities include representation of high tech companies and investors in venture capital financings and counseling healthcare providers in complying with federal privacy, IT security and transactions requirements. Our goal is to address these technologically and commercially complex challenges in an integrated, strategic and efficient manner.
For Additional Information
For additional information about our office in Princeton, New Jersey, please contact Frank A. Luchak or any of the lawyers referenced in the Attorney Listing.