Welcome to the Business Litigation Lawyers website of Munley, Munley, & Cartwright, P.C., Attorneys at Law. We have offices conveniently located in Stroudsburg, Carbondale, Hamlin, Hazleton, Scranton, and Wilkes-Barre, PA. We have the benefit of the local presence within and knowledge of the local legal communities where our business clients work. Our firm has built a reputation over 40 years in the courts within Lackawana, Monroe, Schuylkill, Wayne, Luzerne, and Wyoming counties. Our goal is to provide exceptional legal services to our clients.

Types of major business litigation Munley, Munley & Cartwright has handled for companies include "kill-the-company" cases, where a small or medium-sized business is actually forced out of business because of the negligence, misrepresentation, or simple breach of contract of another person or company. These cases require extensive expert witness involvement, both in establishing why the wrongdoer was at fault and also in setting forth what the value of the lost company was. These cases have included:

• Lender liability, where a commercial lending institution decides to pull the financing on the entire company, and puts it out of business, for reasons that are inadequate or in conflict with principles of good faith and fair dealing;

• Accountant and auditor malpractice, where a company's management or creditors are misled by shoddy accounting work to believe that the financial condition of a company is much different (usually stronger) than it actually was;

• Product liability, where a vendor supplies defective components to the company, which incorporates them in its manufacturing process and results in so much liability to its own customers that the company must either bring suit against the vendor or go out of business.

Other types of business litigation we have handled includes:

• Disputes over shareholders' rights in close corporations and family companies. These have included:

  • Freeze-out of company president/minority shareholder by majority shareholders;

  • Dissenters' appraisal rights in change-of-corporate governance cases;

  • Disputes over proper accounting for profits by management

• Defending companies in business and employment suits

  • age and gender discrimination cases

  • trademark infringement cases

• Breach of Contract cases

  • Miller Act payment bond actions

  • failure-of-performance cases

• Other Areas

  • Franchise litigation and arbitration

  • Stock Fraud -- Public shareholder NASD arbitrations against major brokerage firms

Our litigation attorneys are highly adept in handling contentious matters for our clients. They have substantial experience in jury and non-jury trials and in alternative dispute resolution procedures, including arbitrations and mediations. Our litigation attorneys carefully manage and handle your matters from the initial pleadings through discovery, settlement negotiations, and trial. We strive to find reasonable solutions to problems to maximize favorable outcomes for our clients. Call a Munley, Munley & Cartwright Business Litigation lawyer today at 800-778-1410 or contact us via e-mail.