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Litigation and Investigations

Areas of Focus

When the rights, reputation, or bottom line of your business are at stake, you need a team with a proven ability to fight to win.

HWG LLP’s Litigation & Investigations practice combines strategic thinking, courtroom strength, and insight into complex business environments. We help clients resolve high-stakes commercial disputes, manage white collar risk, and navigate sensitive internal or government investigations. Industry leaders in technology, communications, finance, education, entertainment, and other sectors trust us with their most consequential matters.

Our Approach

We have proven skill in trials, arbitrations, and regulatory enforcement actions. Our team blends elite academic backgrounds, government experience, and federal clerkships with a structure that ensures direct, partner-level engagement throughout every matter.

Early strategy shapes outcomes. Our litigators prepare for trial from the outset of a dispute, while working with clients to identify opportunities for early resolution whenever possible.

Areas of Focus

Every dispute is different, and so is every path to resolution. Our litigators bring deep experience across:

  • Commercial Litigation. Advocacy in complex, high-value, and “bet-the-company” disputes. Clear, confident representation in sophisticated business litigation, including trials before judges and juries, arbitration and mediation, and strategic settlement negotiations.
  • Criminal & White‑Collar Defense. Defense counsel in federal and state investigations and prosecutions. A strong record of protecting companies and individuals in high-stakes matters involving trade secrets, economic espionage, bribery, fraud, and related enforcement actions.
  • Internal & Government Investigations. Strategic support from inquiry through resolution. Skilled representation before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Communications Commission (FCC), state Attorneys General, and other federal and state regulatory bodies.
  • Bid Protests & Procurement Litigation. Rapid, decisive responses in government contract challenges. Experience handling high-stakes bid protests and procurement disputes involving state and municipal contracts.
  • Litigation Finance. Counsel for organizations navigating litigation funding, including strategic, legal, and practical considerations related to third-party financing.
  • International Litigation. Cross-border litigation support through a global network. As the Washington, D.C. member of LAWorld, an international legal network of more than seventy mid-sized firms in major commercial centers worldwide, international disputes are handled in close coordination with network firms.

Our team is adaptable and ready to address emerging issues as industries and regulatory expectations evolve.

Why Companies Choose HWG

  • Intellectual firepower and courtroom presence in high-stakes matters
  • Direct access to senior litigators with partner-level engagement throughout
  • Case strategies tailored to specific business objectives and risk tolerance
  • Trusted representation before the DOH, FCC, State Attorneys General, CPSC, and other regulatory bodies.
  • Integrated guidance on compliance, risk mitigation, and internal investigations.
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Representative Experience

  • Achieved complete victory in a 10-day jury trial in Texas federal court on behalf of one of the country’s leading live-entertainment companies.
  • Resolved a $500 million+ dispute over broadband infrastructure construction on favorable terms for a Fortune 50 company, avoiding one of the largest litigation exposures in its history.
  • Overcame significant procedural hurdles, then reached favorable settlements with four defendants, in litigation brought on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania related to the City of Harrisburg’s $360 million “retrofit” of its trash Incinerator.
  • Successfully resolved a RICO class action filed in federal court in Florida against a nationwide health-insurance brokerage.
  • Defeated licensing claims brought against client in a multi-day arbitration hearing in New York City.
  • Successfully secured a complete defense acquittal at trial in an $11 billion criminal fraud case for former Autonomy CEO Dr. Mike Lynch.
  • Secured a complete dismissal weeks before trial for an executive charged with criminal trade secret theft by federal prosecutors in San Francisco.
  • Obtained a temporary restraining order on behalf of a tech start-up blocking a former employee from interfering in the company’s email systems or defaming the company to its customers and investors.
  • Obtained acquittal on several charges at trial for a public official charged with bank fraud and wire fraud.
  • Obtained a full presidential pardon for a client in a criminal matter.
  • Represented an officer of a leading financial-services company in a criminal investigation, other parallel federal investigations, and civil proceedings arising from allegations of highly complicated accounting fraud.

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