Otten Johnson provides a broad range of business litigation and other dispute resolution services.  We have extensive trial experience in the state and federal courts as well as various arbitration venues.

Our litigators provide counsel and representation to companies in many different industries on a wide variety of business and transactional disputes, including:

• bankruptcy and creditors' rights
• business ownership sale, and acquisition
• construction
• copyrights/trademarks/unfair competition
• employment
• financing
• insurance coverage
• land use
• lender liability
• professional malpractice
• qui tam
• real estate
• securities
• taxation

Our litigators and our approach to litigation set us apart from many other firms.  We focus exclusively on business litigation.  Virtually all of our cases involve business transactions or business issues, and the business backgrounds of our litigation directors add substantial efficiency, creativity, and effectiveness to our advocacy in those kinds of cases.  Several of our litigation directors began their legal careers as transactional lawyers and understand how a deal is put together from the beginning.  This adds valuable insight that many other litigators do not have when a dispute arises over a complex transaction.  Likewise, several of our litigation directors have heavy accounting and financial backgrounds that enhance their understanding of the business aspects of litigation.

Although the wisest course of action in many business disputes is amicable resolution short of trial, we believe the most effective way to reach such a resolution is to approach the case with the primary goal of winning at trial.  In pretrial preparation, we direct our focus to motions and discovery that will advance a successful trial outcome and forego other tactics that do not advance that cause.  As a result, we are able to staff our cases efficiently, generally no more than two lawyers and a legal assistant.  This efficiency not only reduces the costs of litigation, but it also ensures that those lawyers who will champion your case in the courtroom will have lived it since the day it began.

Our track record with this approach speaks for itself.  In the courtroom, we have secured both complete defense verdicts as well as multimillion dollar judgments in large business disputes in the Rocky Mountain region.  Examples of our more notable successes include a complete defense verdict involving the design of the Denver International Airport, a defense summary judgment in favor of our client in a one billion dollar federal False Claims Act case, a six million dollar verdict relating to a Colorado mountain resort dispute, and millions of dollars in condemnation awards on behalf of property owners.

Although not as public, we are equally proud of our success in negotiating innovative out-of-court settlements for our clients, which often involve the restructuring of already complex business transactions.  Our creative approach to settlement has yielded our clients huge economic benefits through settlement proceeds, cost savings, tax benefits, and other economic incentives.

In short, when you find yourself in the midst of a difficult dispute, you need advocates who have the background and expertise to quickly grasp the issues and understand your business objectives.  Our litigators have that background and expertise and will bring it all to bear on your behalf when the need arises.

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