Wiggin and Dana LLP

Wiggin and Dana LLP

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About

The firm: Wiggin and Dana is a full-service law firm with more than 160 attorneys. We are a true partnership of highly talented, creative and experienced lawyers dedicated to exceeding our clients’ expectations every day.

With offices in Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Palm Beach, we represent clients throughout the United States and globally on a wide range of sophisticated and complex matters. From defending a Fortune 500 institution in “bet-the-company” litigation, to helping the next generation of inventors bring a new technology to market, to preserving the wealth that a family business has worked so hard to create, we pride ourselves in offering value driven solutions and results.

Since the firm’s inception in 1934, Wiggin and Dana has been recognized as one of the most experienced law firms in the region. We believe that we exemplify the best of the old and new – a proudly independent firm dedicated to crafting innovative solutions in traditional and emerging industries in ever-changing areas of the law.

Main areas of practice
Legal 500 ranked practice areas: dispute resolution – appellate practice and media, technology and telecoms – outsourcing practice and M&A/ corporate and commercial.

Wiggin and Dana is made up of six main departments, including corporate, health care, litigation, private client services, labor, employment and benefits, and real estate, environmental, construction and facilities.

Our litigation department handles everything from general commercial litigation and appeals, white-collar criminal defense, or matters specific to certain industries, such as franchise and hospitality, pharmaceutical and medical device, and aerospace and defense. Wiggin and Dana has been nationally recognized for our dispute resolution – appellate practice area. The group handles high-stakes appeals and also provides appellate advice and analysis of complex legal issues at the trial level.

Our outsourcing and technology practice group, has been nationally recognized and serves leading suppliers of IT, business process and other outsourced services worldwide. In addition, our Cybersecurity and privacy practice group helps clients comply with privacy and data security laws, manage and mitigate security risks and, if necessary, respond to incidents in order to minimize potential exposure, protect valuable data, preserve business relationships and protect reputations and goodwill.

Our corporate department regularly advises clients on a wide variety of commercial and financial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, public and private debt and equity financing, outsourcing, entity formation, creation and protection of intellectual property, licensing and distribution, franchising and workouts and restructuring.

For additional information regarding our health care, private client services, labor, employment and benefits, and real estate, environmental and energy departments, please visit our website.