Expertise built for complex industries and high-stakes matters
Burger Meyer represents businesses and individuals in matters where industry knowledge, regulatory awareness, and disciplined legal strategy make the difference. Our practice areas reflect the realities of modern business—disputes, risk, compliance, and the transactions that support long-term growth.
Our firm’s expertise is organized around the industries and matters we handle most often. Whether you are managing operational risk, facing a dispute, or planning for what’s next, we bring practical counsel grounded in experience and careful judgment.
General Liability
We defend businesses, property owners, contractors and their insurers against a wide range of third-party bodily injury and property damage claims. Our general liability practice covers negligence, products, construction site injuries, negligent hiring and supervision, and multi-party disputes involving tenders, indemnity and additional insured issues. We focus on early evaluation, accurate exposure analysis and efficient resolution, and we are ready to try cases when that serves our clients best.
Personal injury defense, product and professional liability, auto claims, and civil disputes.
Premises Liability
Property owners, managers, retailers, restaurants, hotels and other hospitality operators rely on us to defend claims arising from conditions on their property. We handle slip-and-fall and trip-and-fall incidents, negligent security and third-party assault claims, and dangerous condition, maintenance, elevator, escalator and pool-related injuries. We move quickly to preserve surveillance video, inspection logs and incident reports, and we use defenses such as lack of notice, trivial defect and fault allocation to limit our clients’ exposure.
GIG Economy
We have represented some of the largest firms in the gig economy to support in litigation pertaining to their employment, liability, and agreements with independent contractors.
Independent contractor agreements, classification disputes, liability planning, and related litigation.
Employment Law
Our attorneys regularly advise both small and large employers on the ever-changing employment law landscape, including wrongful termination, harassment, and discrimination disputes.
Wrongful termination and discrimination claims, wage issues, investigations, and policy guidance.
Commercial Trucking
We represent motor carriers, commercial fleet operators, delivery and rideshare businesses, public and private transit providers, and their insurers in claims arising from vehicle accidents. Our work includes catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims, negligent entrustment and hiring allegations. We respond rapidly after serious accidents to secure scene evidence, electronic logging and telematics data, and driver records. We then work with accident reconstruction and medical experts to challenge liability and damages.
Accident defense, regulatory compliance, negligence claims, and transportation litigation.
Healthcare Law
Our healthcare practice team provides legal services across areas such as regulatory compliance, transactions, confidentiality, insurance, and medical malpractice.
Regulatory compliance, transactions, HIPAA matters, insurance disputes, and malpractice defense.
Real Estate Law
Our experienced real estate attorneys regularly draft purchase and sale agreements, residential and commercial leases, and general contractor and subcontractor agreements, as well as litigating real estate disputes.
Purchase and sale agreements, leasing, contractor disputes, and property litigation.
Restaurant & Hospitality
We have significant experience in restaurant and hotel operations, including liquor licensing, food safety, labor and employment law, franchise and management agreements, and commercial leasing, among others.
Liquor licensing, franchise agreements, food safety compliance, and commercial leasing.
Business Litigation
Our business law practice group has extensive experience on a wide range of transactional matters including contracts, intellectual property, and corporate formation and compliance.
Contract disputes, partnership/shareholder conflicts, business torts, and commercial claims.
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