Delaware Office
Elliott Greenleaf’s Delaware office includes highly experienced and accomplished lawyers and professional staff, who are all intimately familiar with the practice and procedure in Delaware’s federal and state courts and throughout Delaware’s administrative agencies, including the Delaware Secretary of State and the Delaware Department of Insurance.
Our Delaware office can navigate through the unique customs and practice of one of the world’s busiest and innovative legal communities. Our lawyers and paralegals can move seamlessly through any court in Delaware and have experience and expertise in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, the Delaware Court of Chancery, Delaware Supreme Court, Complex Commercial Litigation Division for Superior Court, and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
The Firm is in distinct company, among Delaware firms, in that it is adaptable and comfortable in being either lead counsel, co-counsel, or special counsel on any and all substantive matters before any of the Delaware Courts, as well as being trusted Delaware counsel with strategic knowledge of the Courts and both their written procedures as well as unwritten customs and practices. Our firm has a national reach in many practice areas, including our Commercial Litigation Practices, but many of the world’s largest business disputes take place in Delaware.
Our Delaware Corporate Litigation Experience
The United States District Court for the District of Delaware has a significant role in intellectual property litigation over patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets and the Court of Chancery has a healthy practice involving trade secrets, especially with respect to employment disputes. Elliott Greenleaf’s lawyers regularly practice in these Courts. Elliott Greenleaf also routinely represents employers and employees in the Court of Chancery related to restrictive covenants, such as non-competition clauses, including disputes related to the theft or transfer of intellectual property.
The Delaware Court of Chancery is the premier venue in the nation for the resolution of corporate matters. Activity in the Chancery Court is fueled by its highly rated judges and its status as a respected specialized business court. Delaware’s reputation as a jurisdiction of choice for incorporations and the creation of alternative business entities such as limited liability companies, statutory trusts, and limited partnerships, also makes the Chancery Court a venue of choice. The Delaware Court system has been recognized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform as the top judiciary in the country for over a decade. Our lawyers have been involved in several seminal Chancery and Delaware Supreme Court cases, both as judicial clerks and as litigants, as well as having settled multiple matters before they ever reached the Chancery or Superior Court.
