Subscribe to our CONVERGE blog and newsletter for valuable insights from hotel and travel risk management experts. Our blog features exclusive content from our contributors who collectively represent the full spectrum of hospitality law, risk management and comprehensive due diligence solutions. We provide diverse legal representation and compliance advice to owners, operators, managers, franchisors and franchisees, investors, manufacturers, suppliers and vendors throughout the business lifecycle. We regularly help our customers: In hospitality, customer service and satisfaction mean everything. At Duane Morris, we share this commitment and understand that businesses need comprehensive legal services to deliver world-class services and experiences. Over the years, the company has served clients from all sectors of the diverse leisure and hospitality industry, with a particular focus on hotels, resorts, vacation properties, casinos and mixed-use developments. Our clients, including some of the world`s best-known hotel brands, trust us to help them overcome their legal and business challenges. From day-to-day operational matters related to contracts, agreements and employee issues, to company-wide construction projects, corporate transactions and financing efforts impacting the future of the business, Duane Morris has the national reach, industry experience and practice that clients rely on to succeed in the competitive hospitality industry. Akerman`s national hospitality team provides comprehensive 360-degree legal advice to a wide range of hospitality clients. Recognized by Chambers USA for their “sound and practical advice”, our experienced lawyers have a deep understanding of the hospitality industry and its associated risks, challenges and new opportunities.
Leveraging our extensive industry experience, deep market knowledge and industry-specific knowledge, we help our clients overcome challenges and new opportunities with new ideas and creative solutions. Hotel Law offers a practical guide to the issues faced by the hotel legal profession. It develops the reader`s understanding of the complex management processes and franchise agreements that govern the hospitality industry. Highly experienced writers offer insight into industry players and their preferred positions, desired outcomes, and potential pitfalls that can trap even the best planned trades. With coverage of gaming, leisure, and amenities, the book explores all of the dominant franchise models of hotel ownership and management, and includes independent hotels and the transition to complex resorts. Managing your people – your most important asset – requires diligence and strategic advice. Duane Morris offers a full range of legal services and proactive advice to keep the workplace running smoothly. Our preventative approach focuses on compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws with the goal of reducing costly disruption and litigation in the workplace. We draft and negotiate labour law agreements, such as: Board of Directors contracts, non-competition clauses; confidentiality agreements; and separation agreements. Our lawyers also have decades of experience helping employers respond to organizing efforts and regularly defend employers against unfair labour practices allegations filed with the National Labour Relations Board.
If a union is already represented, we assist our clients with grievance procedures, collective bargaining and representation of management interests in labour arbitration. We are a global network of lawyers specialized in hotel, tourism and tourism matters. A marketing channel for legal, security and security solution providers to reach developers and hotel operators who need these solutions. We mitigate critical incidents, breaches, litigation, and liability in the hospitality industry, both in the U.S. and abroad by facilitating the creation, collection, and dissemination of legal and security information, products, and services. Every day, our hospitality industry group helps restaurants, hotels, resorts and gaming facilities across the country resolve the myriad of legal issues impacting the workplace. As a group, our lawyers represent national hotel and restaurant chains in wage and hour audits and disputes, organizing campaigns, collective bargaining and labour arbitrations, workplace discrimination allegations, and lawsuits. We discuss the employment and employment law implications of mergers and acquisitions and advise hospitality employers on all aspects of employment law. In the hospitality industry, Littler`s lawyers are widely recognized for their in-depth knowledge and creative approach to solving workplace problems. Summary: Responsible for the effective and efficient management of the legal department, providing legal advisory services and working with external lawyers in. As the largest employment law firm in the country, Littler understands the complex challenges facing employers in the hospitality industry today.
Duane Morris dedicates a particular practice to the needs of clients in the gaming, casino and related clients of the hospitality industry. We help our gaming clients manage the regulatory and approval process, advise on capital development projects and construction transactions, manage labour and employment matters, protect intellectual property, provide tax and real estate advice, and manage litigation or arbitration involving our clients when disputes arise in any environment. Our long history and extensive industry contacts – in the U.S. and abroad – help clients seize opportunities, leverage contacts, and overcome challenges faced by owners and developers of casinos, races, and entertainment venues. The business publication The Deal consistently ranks Duane Morris as one of the most active bankruptcy practices in the United States. Our experience includes supporting hospitality industry clients who are facing financial hardship or the consequences of struggling suppliers and business partners. In addition, we help our clients minimize the risks associated with the acquisition and disposal of distressed properties. Duane Morris helps secure and execute the financial transactions hotel businesses need, including public and private equity financing. securitized and syndicated loans; equity and convertible loans; mezzanine and other hybrid loans; and debt and government leasing financing. Duane Morris lawyers act as legal and general counsel to assist hospitality clients in their day-to-day operations and decisions. We regularly advise hotels, resorts, casinos, restaurant chains and other hotel companies on management and employee contracts, supplier and supplier negotiations and agreements, trademark and intellectual property issues, rewards and loyalty programs, and revenue growth strategies. Jerry is a licensed civil litigator.
He has been recognized by one of the largest insurance companies in the world as one of the top ten criminal defense attorneys in the United States. He is a member of the Litigation Counsel of America, a pro bono society of less than half a percent of lawyers in the United States. Jerry is often asked to intervene as a litigator in complex and highly exposed cases across the country in the days, weeks and months leading up to trial. His and his firm`s specialty is to immediately take the most serious cases to court and tell his client`s story in the most effective and compelling way.
