Baker & Daniels’ litigation attorneys have the depth and experience to handle virtually any type of civil litigation, from cargo damage claims to products liability claims to corporate matters. Our attorneys have experience in mediation, arbitration, trial and other dispute resolution arenas and we are skilled in settlement negotiations, drafting of briefs and legal memoranda and oral advocacy.
Experience
Our representative litigation and bankruptcy experience in the manufacturing and logistics industry includes:
- Representing numerous manufacturers, shippers and carriers in cargo damage claims.
- Representing a manufacturer in rail car demurrage dispute with CSX Corporation.
- Representing a manufacturer in collapse of logistics service provider dealing with claims of unpaid bills from underlying carriers.
- Serving as co-counsel, through jury trial and the appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court, of breaches and failures to disclose superior knowledge between a large government aerospace contractor and its subcontractor.
- Defense of the operator and owner of an aircraft against the claims brought by the family of a deceased employee asserting a $200 million wrongful death claim arising from an accident, including extensive foreign discovery.
- Multiple ongoing representations of a large aerospace contractor defending federal court litigation with a customer on terms of a fleet-wide engine maintenance agreement.
- Serving as lead counsel for ATA Airlines in its recent Chapter 11 case in Indianapolis. ATA was the 10th largest U.S. air carrier at the time of its filing, and resolution of the bankruptcy case involved required resolution or litigation of dozens of aviation-related business issues, including parsing complex commercial aircraft leases.