BUCKINGHAM'S KEY AREAS OF PRACTICE

Business Practice Group:  Our Business group provides day-to-day guidance focused on helping clients overcome challenges and capitalize on opportunities. Our Akron lawyers have extensive experience in advising closely held companies, nonprofit organizations, private foundations and publicly held companies. Specialty areas include corporate law and franchise law. In addition, our attorneys provide counsel and representation in matters of finance law, public law, taxation and employee benefits, immigration law, mergers & acquisitions, and school law.

Employment and Workers' Compensation Practice Group:  The Employment Law group represents employers with regard to labor and employment relations including collective bargaining and grievance, arbitration, defense against union organizing campaigns, employment discrimination litigation, ERISA litigation, wrongful discharge litigation, unfair competition and trade secret litigation. Our attorneys represent clients before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, and the State Employment Relations Board. In addition, the Employment Law group provides consulting on personnel practices, wage-hour matters and unemployment compensation, as well as DWRF issues, handicap reimbursement and subrogation.  The Workers' Compensation section of the group represents state-funded, self-insured and public employers before the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, the Industrial Commission, the Court of Common Pleas, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Litigation Practice Group:  Our full-service litigation group is experienced in alternate dispute resolution, family law, complex litigation, appellate cases and criminal defense and governmental investigations. Our attorneys regularly handle commercial cases, bankruptcies,  and disputes involving copyrights, patents, service marks, trademarks and trade secrets. We also specialize in family law, environmental law and toxic tort as well as creditors' rights, insurance cases and white collar defense.