Doing business globally depends on linkage through elastic channels that move people and products across skies, roads, rails, oceans, and waterways with haste, security, and proficiency. While the transportation and logistics sector has helped to drive global economic growth, it is often replete with vulnerabilities, growing knottiness and encroaching complexities. Jimerson Birr’s Transportation and Logistics Industry Team brings a thorough understanding of how the related sectors work, and our extensive legal experience, service methods, and strong network of experts gives us a unique ability to turn threats into opportunities.
Our clients are served by lawyers who are focused on the legal and business trends and emerging challenges facing the transportation and logistics industry. Our attorneys are well-suited to provide risk management, operational improvement, regulatory, turnaround, and litigation counsel based on in-depth industry knowledge and expertise. We work alongside clients to respond to their most pressing strategic, legal and operational challenges in a way that implements solutions for enduring results and value.
Jimerson Birr attorneys work diligently to provide clients with comprehensive legal advice and guidance from transportation or logistics related contracts and cargo displacement or damage claims to business operational issues such as regulatory compliance, employee management, real estate and environmental law. When it comes to business structuring and transactions, insurance coverage issues, fair competition planning, labor and employment management, alternative workforce programs, workers compensation, driver leasing, warehousing, fleet operations, outsourcing, customs and export control, regulation of global distribution systems, and various other matters of industry-wide significance, our legal team is recognized throughout the sector for our capacity to deliver valuable counsel and advocacy to industry clients, including carriers, leasing companies, underwriters, operators, shippers, and brokers operating throughout the State of Florida and across the nation. Our team is well-connected to be able to provide representation to all forms of manufacturers, producers, sector stakeholders, and exporters and importers of products moving globally, whether by air, ocean vessel, rail, truck or inter-modally.
Our team provides advanced preemptive advice with respect to business contracts, transportation and logistics contracts, and regulatory compliance in order to prevent legal disputes and litigation. When disputes do arise, however, our litigators make every attempt to resolve the dispute without judicial or arbitrator involvement, offering useful guidance to allow clients to make educated decisions on the issues before them. If attempts to resolve the dispute without litigation are ineffective, our skilled litigators will heartily advocate with a results-driven mentality for our clients.
Jimerson Birr’s Transportation and Logistics Industry Team has a broad understanding of the transportation industry and are dedicated to providing superior service and value-add representation on all matters affecting the industry. Whether your issue involves a routine accident, freight claim, an employment matter, a complex industry-specific agreement, pesky regulatory issue, or corporate/financial transaction, we are committed to assisting your company with dedicated and cost-effective counsel.
Jimerson Birr recognizes that companies in the risky, intricate, and booming transportation and logistics sector depend on sound counsel for mission-critical operational, legal and regulatory issues. We are committed to the goal of helping transportation and logistics companies mitigate risk and prevent problems before they arise or escalate.