Press Release
08/21/08 -
Vedder Price Launches New Retail Industry Service Team
The law firm of Vedder Price P.C. announces the formation of a Retail Industry Service Team to assist clients by providing comprehensive, multi-disciplinary legal services to retail industry clients, enhancing their business, productivity and profitability while reducing their legal exposure. Members of the Retail Industry Service Team provide counsel and advice in key legal areas, such as labor and employment; corporate and tax strategies; zoning and land use, real estate development and finance; consumer litigation; construction litigation; leasing; brand protection; immigration; e-commerce; and franchise and distribution.
Representative clients include Big Box retailers, specialty retailers, on-line merchants, contractors, and the owners and developers of shopping centers, outlets and other mixed use developments. The group is comprised of attorneys from all of the firm’s offices.
“We are constantly seeking to match our legal skills and competencies to the needs of our clients,” commented Michael A. Nemeroff, President of Vedder Price. “We have witnessed significant growth in this important sector of the domestic economy and this new group will assist us to focus our resources and service the expanding needs of clients in this industry segment.”
The group is chaired by Timothy J. Carroll, a Shareholder in the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice. Mr. Carroll has successfully represented retailers, merchants and hotel chains in various (ADA), commercial and privacy litigation matters. He has also extensively counseled retail industry clients on eDiscovery and litigation readiness & records management initiatives.
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