Trial Practice

Deciding who will try a case is among the most consequential decisions a business leader can make. Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group is designed to provide our most experienced and respected trial lawyers to our clients.

With 100 dedicated trial lawyers, Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group offers something genuinely rare in the BigLaw environment: a team of seasoned, first-chair trial lawyers who try cases, consistently and at the highest level, across the United States.

A Trial Boutique With the Resources of a Major Firm

What makes Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group noteworthy is that it operates with a distinct dual structure. The group has the focus, culture, and instincts of a trial boutique — a team of lawyers devoted to zealously fighting for clients in the courtroom, not just negotiating toward settlement. And it functions as an integral part of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Litigation Practice, giving clients access to deep subject matter experience across virtually every relevant discipline, as well as the necessary resources each matter requires.

This combination matters in practice. Complex trials rarely involve a single area of law. A products liability case may include scientific expert testimony, regulatory compliance history, and corporate governance issues simultaneously. A False Claims Act trial may require a nuanced grasp of both federal procurement law and accounting standards. A securities fraud defense may turn on the intersection of corporate disclosure obligations and financial market mechanics. Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group draws on the firm’s multidisciplinary resources to help ensure that our first-chair trial counsel is supported by substantive depth in as many dimensions as a case requires.

First-Chair Experience Across the Spectrum of Trial Matters

Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group handles a wide range of trial matters at the highest levels of complexity and consequence. The team’s experience spans products liability, False Claims Act litigation, commercial disputes, labor and employment trials, patent and trademark infringement, trade secrets, securities fraud, tax litigation, criminal defense, and antitrust — as well as the defense of government-led investigations and enforcement actions.

This breadth gives clients trial lawyers who possess firsthand experience in the relevant subject matter, and an understanding of how judges and juries respond to the evidence and arguments at issue. Greenberg Traurig’s trial lawyers bring that firsthand courtroom experience across an exceptionally wide range of practice areas, in both state and federal courts throughout the country.

The Ability to Parachute In and Turn Cases Around

One of the most valued and distinctive capabilities of Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group is its ability to step into a case that is already underway — sometimes with trial approaching rapidly — and take on the role of lead trial counsel. This “parachute in” capability has been established by handling some of the most challenging litigation turnarounds in recent memory.

When a client’s existing counsel is not trial-ready, when a case has gone in the wrong direction and needs to be reset, or when a matter has reached a critical juncture that demands a different approach, Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group can move expeditiously, assess the situation, and prepare a trial-ready strategy in a compressed timeframe. The team has done this repeatedly, in challenging jurisdictions, against formidable opponents, with significant financial exposure at stake.

This capability is particularly valuable for clients who find themselves in high-stakes litigation that has not been managed with trial as a genuine end point. Greenberg Traurig’s trial lawyers approach every case as if it will be tried, and when they take over a matter, they bring that orientation immediately. Moreover, we have found that the additional presence of experienced first-chair trial lawyers, with national reputations, provides significant leverage to clients in closing out resolutions in their favor as trial approaches.

Trial-Ready Teams Built for the Modern Courtroom

Winning at trial in complex litigation today requires sophisticated infrastructure and the right team around lead counsel. Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group maintains fully trial-ready teams that include not only veteran trial lawyers, but also experienced paralegals, medical legal consultants, trial graphics specialists, and trial technologists. These teams are assembled and kept sharp specifically for courtroom deployment.

Trial graphics and technology have become central to how complex cases are presented to juries and judges. Greenberg Traurig’s investment in these capabilities reflects the team’s understanding that persuasion in the modern courtroom is a multisensory challenge — and that clarity, visual impact, and technological fluency can meaningfully affect how factfinders receive and retain the arguments and evidence presented to them.

For example, having a nurse legal consultant is particularly important in products liability, medical malpractice, and personal injury matters, where the ability to translate complex medical and scientific evidence into an accessible, credible courtroom narrative can be decisive, as is having experienced CPAs in sophisticated financial matters involving minority shareholder suits, securities litigation, or False Claims Act matters. Having those skills integrated within the trial team, rather than imported at the last minute, gives Greenberg Traurig a structural advantage in complicated cases.

Recognized Excellence at the Highest Levels

Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group has earned recognition from the most respected legal directories and publications in the industry. Our trial lawyers have been named Litigators of the Week by The American Lawyer, recognized as Masters of the Courtroom by The National Law Journal, listed among Benchmark Litigation’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers and Top 10 Women in Litigation, named Trial MVP and Trial Ace by Law360, and included among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America. The group is also recognized in Chambers USA and The Legal 500 United States.

These recognitions reflect the consistent quality of Greenberg Traurig’s trial work across multiple practice areas and jurisdictions, and they provide clients with meaningful third-party validation that the lawyers they are entrusting with their most important cases have been tested and recognized at the highest level.

When the Stakes Are Highest, Trial Experience Is Everything

For clients facing litigation with significant exposure — financial, reputational, or operational — the question of whether their legal team can try the case needs to be of primary concern. Greenberg Traurig’s Trial Practice Group provides clients with the answer they need: a team of experienced, recognized, and battle-tested trial lawyers who are ready to stand up in courtrooms across the country and fight for the outcome their clients need.

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