Umpire Services

The Firm has significant experience in the defense of legal malpractice claims. The Firm is regularly engaged to represent the interests of both individual lawyers and law firms in courts throughout Mississippi.

The Firm’s commercial litigators also are experienced in the litigation and arbitration of disputes involving technology and software. The Firm has represented both providers of technology and customers in contract disputes and intellectual property matters.

The Firm has a wealth of experience in litigating and arbitrating claims for securities fraud. The Firm has defended a number of matters involving allegations of churning, unsuitability, and other forms of securities fraud and successfully defended the largest class action securities fraud cases ever filed in Mississippi. The Firm’s commercial litigators also have represented clients who have been victims of securities fraud and handled disputes between corporations and their shareholders.

The Firm has significant experience in the litigation of insurance coverage disputes. The Firm’s trial lawyers have represented both carriers and insureds regarding their rights and obligations under a wide variety of insurance policies. We are also active in the defense of bad faith litigation, in which insureds allege that carriers have wrongfully refused to pay benefits. The Firm’s commercial litigators are also actively involved in insurance litigation relating to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

The Firm’s attorneys have decades of experience in litigating disputes involving energy, oil, and natural gas. Our attorneys frequently work in conjunction with members of the Firm’s Regulatory Department in handling these matters. Litigation matters for energy clients include eminent domain; major natural gas curtailment, take or pay, and royalty cases; large breach-of-contract claims; title, drainage, balancing, and gas-processing disputes; and lawsuits stemming from well blowouts and contamination, including claims based on naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM).

The Firm’s commercial litigation practice also includes experience in class action litigation. The Firm has successfully defended a number of class action suits in federal courts in Mississippi.

Brunini attorneys have served as lead counsel in some of the largest and most complex contract disputes that have been brought in the courts of Mississippi. The Firm has handled contract disputes for clients engaged in a wide array of businesses, including oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance, banking, health care, automobile and truck sales, technology, manufacturing, shipbuilding, and others.

The Firm’s commercial litigators have long-standing experience in litigation involving business torts, including commercial defamation, interference with contract and business relations, fraud and misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duty, and others.

The Firm’s representation of financial institutions has given it broad experience in lender liability litigation and other disputes involving banks.