Our attorneys regularly counsel and advise design professionals in legal disputes and professional service contract negotiations, constantly seeking to minimize or mitigate the risk of exposure for our clients.  We frequently litigate claims asserted by or against design professionals concerning contractual disputes, design defects resulting from errors or omissions, inadequate construction administration, personal injury and property damage, as well as damages for economic loss arising from these and other claims.   

Crawford Lewis attorneys are adept at handling litigation arising from both residential and commercial construction and have litigated numerous complex multi-party construction defect matters, representing owners, contractors, subcontractors, architects and engineers, and insurance companies providing coverage to these individuals and entities. 

Our firm has represented both owners and sellers of closely held businesses, national franchises and multi-national corporations in formations, mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and reorganizations, including the transfer and sale of a national fine dining establishment and structuring the acquisition and reorganization of the largest piping fabrication company in the world.    

As national counsel for major insurers, the firm has defended numerous claims against officers and directors, often with potential exposure exceeding $100,000,000.00.  In this arena, our litigation record exemplifies that we have litigated against and with major law firms across the United States, achieving a level of success unparalleled and unmatched by most firms. 

Here is where we are really given the opportunity to unleash our creativity and utilize many practice areas to finance and implement your project regardless of whether it is in the conceptual, financing or closing stage.  Whether a developer, a venture capitalist or a budding entrepreneur, our attorneys are apt at combining their vast legal and pragmatic experience in financing, taxation, construction, real estate and land use planning to help you achieve your financing and structuring goals with regard to your project.

Our firm has represented various filmmakers, production companies and investors in the financing, structuring and negotiation of licensing agreements, production agreements and other transactions related to the investment, production and direction of motion pictures and motion picture production facilities.  One of our specialties in this practice area is utilizing a multitude of Louisiana tax credits and other incentives available to the entertainment industry in the financing of transactions.      

Crawford Lewis provides assistance to both private and public entities in drafting proposed federal, state and local legislation, as well as testifying or preparing clients to testify before committees in support of legislation, and lobbying for or against proposed legislation.  A source of pride is the instrumental role we played in drafting provisions of the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act, which has been a key to the recovery of the Gulf South in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.   

Crawford Lewis often provides representation to health care clients, including hospitals, physicians and practice groups, on a wide range of issues, including regulatory and administrative compliance, labor and employment disputes, mergers and acquisitions, risk management and other commercial matters.  

Our attoneys provide comprehensive insurance defense representation for domestic and international insurers, including personal injury, construction, general commercial, insurance coverage and bad faith defense, property damage resulting from fire, automobile and trucking collisions and toxic tort litigation. 

We are known for an aggressive, innovative approach to regulatory issues that face impaired, solvent and insolvent insurers, and has achieved substantial success in recovering assets through litigation and defending claims asserted against those companies.

Attorneys in our firm have successfully defended a variety of clams brought pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Jones Act, Section 905(b) of the Longshore and Harbor Worker's Compensation Act and general maritime laws of the United States, including unseaworthiness, maintenance and cure.