Built to Succeed. Trying cases—and winning—is in the Dorsey & Whitney DNA. So is finding favorable solutions that don’t involve a trial. Clients recognize that a strong commitment to winning—coupled with an intelligent balance of risk vs. outcome—are key allies in a dispute. We excel at litigating and resolving complex and challenging cases, and we work collaboratively with our clients on solutions that promote their business objectives.

Dorsey has what it takes to succeed in high-stakes class actions and complex commercial disputes that affect finances and reputations. We are equally committed to handling smaller matters with an eye toward minimizing the disruption they cause to business operations and objectives.
Formidable, Strategic, Realistic. No business welcomes conflict. We work with clients on strategies to prevent disputes from arising. When disputes do arise, our clients benefit from our extensive courtroom experience. We have won thousands of cases by prevailing on dispositive motions and at trial. Whatever happens, you can depend on Dorsey to formulate an effective, thoughtful strategy that achieves results.

Value in Knowing Your Business Sector. Our collective litigation, arbitration and mediation experience covers every area of business activity across a wide range of industries and sectors. Dorsey lawyers know how business operates. Many have worked in-house, and all of our attorneys develop deep partnerships with the businesses they represent. Access to the resources of more than 50 Dorsey practice groups provides a powerful advantage. You benefit from cost-efficient, seamless access to first-rate professionals specializing in multiple disciplines within a single firm.

Protecting Interests Around the World. Dorsey lawyers include former state and federal judges, U.S. Attorneys, SEC trial counsel, a Watergate prosecutor, and a solicitor general. This direct experience with the workings of the U.S. judicial system provides clients with a rich understanding of the best avenues to explore in resolving disputes.

Cross-border disputes are increasingly complex and can expose a business to considerable uncertainty. With an informed perspective and deep experience in international litigation and arbitration, Dorsey has handled a full range of cases before judicial and arbitration bodies around the world, including the ICC International Court of Arbitration, the European Court of Justice, the London Court of International Arbitration, the House of Lords, the American Arbitration Association's International Center for Dispute Resolution and others.

Dorsey’s London office boasts one of the largest litigation groups of any U.S. native firm in Europe. Rated #1 in the United Kingdom by Chambers, Dorsey’s tax litigators are the dominant force in groundbreaking group litigation brought by our client multi-national corporations against Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. Other specialties of Dorsey litigators in Europe include fraud investigation and litigation, financial services litigation, intellectual property litigation, general commercial litigation in the English courts (with solicitors, solicitor advocates, and barristers resident at Dorsey, and with close ties to leading chambers), and international commercial arbitration.