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Innovative Litigators
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From the moment we opened our doors, Smith Freed Eberhard has been fearlessly pushing the edge of what’s possible for our clients. We’ve carefully cultivated and developed specialties in our practices and our people to give you the very best: formidable expertise, strategically creative thinking, and litigation guideline adherence. We are your champion, keenly focused on understanding your situation, solving your challenges, and achieving your goals.

Our professional liability defense team is highly skilled in defending all types of professional liability claims. This includes: Business Liability: Errors & Omissions / Directors & Officers / Liquor Liability / Defamation / Libel and Slander / Breach of Contract / Breach of Warranty / Intellectual Property / Sexual Abuse & Misconduct / Employment Practices Liability / Fiduciary Liability. Cyber: Data Breach / Cyber Liability.

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Our Process

1.
Early & Accurate
Evaluation


2.
On-Time Reporting
Throughout the Life of the Case

3.
Legal Analytics
Proven Results
We Play
to win

SFE has represented clients in numerous industries for decades. Our experience in representing a variety of businesses within various markets — including bars, restaurants, QSR, grocery, big box retail, manufacturers, distributors, sporting venues and more — helps us to understand each industry and its unique challenges.

Often the desired course of action to resolve conflict, particularly in complex, time sensitive, expensive catastrophic injury cases, is the best course of action. With that in mind, our professional liability defense team is committed to resolving even the most hotly contested disputes outside of court and with less delay and expense than in the traditional litigation process. The firm’s lawyers are involved in the arbitration and mediation of injury disputes of all kinds, which can result in significant cost and time savings for our clients.

Professional liability defense matters cannot be solved with a one size fits all approach. Our goal is to analyze and mitigate risk, whether our attorneys are negotiating a deal or helping to resolve a dispute. Early evaluation and discovery is critical. Our team seeks to identify legal defenses theories at the earliest point possible.

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