PRACTICE AREA
Commercial Litigation
The Stine Law Firm is highly experienced, proficient and cost-effective in representing businesses, their owners, and individuals in commercial litigation throughout Virginia, the District of Columbia, and in other state and federal courts, appellate courts, and before arbitration panels. The Firm also has extensive experience in the negotiation and settlement of disputes and alternative dispute resolution (including mediation), with the ultimate goal of always placing the client's best interest first. The Stine Law Firm practices commercial litigation in the following areas:
- Business and corporate litigation under Virginia, D.C. and federal law
- Complex contract and business tort disputes
- Fraud, concealment and misrepresentation
- Federal and Virginia computer crimes/unlawful surveillance
- RICO actions
- Employment litigation
- Restrictive covenants and non-solicitation agreements
- Commercial and residential lease and real estate litigation
- Real property litigation, including easements, covenants, liens, and partition actions
- Unfair business practices, including the misappropriation of trade secrets and other proprietary/confidential information.
- Intellectual property litigation
- FTC enforcement/fraud actions in various federal courts
- Business and personal defamation actions
- Collections actions, including garnishments, liens, fraudulent conveyances, and successor liability litigation.
- Construction litigation
- Attorney fee petitions and motions for sanctions
- Foreign judgment collections
Restrictive Covenants
The Stine Law Firm is well versed in litigating the enforceability and scope of restrictive covenants in Virginia and D.C., such as non-compete agreements, non-solicitation agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and confidentiality agreements. We also routinely counsel and assist our clients in the drafting, negotiation, interpretation, and ramifications of restrictive covenants.
Commercial Leases and Real Property Disputes
The Stine Law Firm represents both commercial landlords, commercial tenants, and individuals with respect to commercial and residential lease litigation and negotiation as well as the drafting and negotiation of lease terms, the enforceability of easements, licenses, restrictive covenants, and property boundary disputes.
Employment Law
The Stine Law Firm represents clients with respect to a wide range of employment matters including preparing, negotiating and/or litigating issues related to employment handbooks, policies, contracts, severance agreements, non-competition and confidentiality agreements, as well as providing representation before the EEOC, state agencies and state, federal, and appellate courts with respect to all forms of discrimination and/or retaliation.
Federal And Virginia Computer Crimes Litigation
The Stine Law Firm has significant experience and success in prosecuting and defending civil computer crimes actions on behalf of businesses and/or individuals who have suffered an unauthorized party's wrongful access and misappropriation of their computers and computer data, programs, files, networks, online accounts, websites or other electronic mediums in violation of federal and/or state law. Our focus is to ensure maximum protection for our clients and to obtain justified monetary damages, lost profits, and injunctive and other equitable relief against the unauthorized parties.
RICO Actions
The Stine Law Firm has significant experience and success in prosecuting and defending civil computer crimes actions on behalf of businesses and/or individuals who have suffered an unauthorized party's wrongful access and misappropriation of their computers and computer data, programs, files, networks, online accounts, websites or other electronic mediums in violation of federal and/or state law. Our focus is to ensure maximum protection for our clients and to obtain justified monetary damages, lost profits, and injunctive and other equitable relief against the unauthorized parties.