Industry Leaders
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INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
At ROGERS SMITH we pride ourselves on having a deep knowledge and understanding of how our clients’ businesses exist in their industries. We’ve invested the time and research getting to know who and what you are and that experience pays dividends.
AUTOMOTIVE.
Assisting automobile dealership groups, single point dealerships, independent dealerships and affiliated businesses navigate legal issues involved in the industry.
The automotive law attorneys at ROGERS SMITH are thoroughly immersed in the industry. Our breadth of experience includes representing and advising national and regional automotive dealership clients in matters including consumer actions and unfair competition claims, federal and state regulatory matters, commercial litigation and franchise disputes. We have also represented clients in the automotive industry in catastrophic personal injury claims and products and premises liability matters.
As the industry continues to modernize and becomes more complex, we are driven by our desire and ability to aid clients in all facets of automotive law, with experience in manufacturer relations as well as supplier and vendor relations. We also bring our expertise and experience to automotive affiliated businesses including finance companies, flooring lenders, automobile service centers, and surety bonding companies. From business transactions including corporate, partnership and limited liability company formations, to employment law and intellectual property issues, our automotive law team has wide-ranging experience in all types of automotive related matters.
Our work in the automotive industry also consists of developing and implementing protective measures for our clients, working to limit liability and ensure regulatory compliance.
CLASSIC & EXOTIC VEHICLES.
With extensive experience in automotive law already, we are immersed in the world of vintage and exotic automobiles.
ROGERS SMITH’s attorneys are skilled in all areas for vintage and exotic vehicle sales including documenting provenance, disputes regarding VIN authenticity, and litigation between restoration facilities and their clients in concours restorations. Our experience includes disputes involving vintage Porsches, Ferraris, Mercedes-Benzes, Lamborghinis, and many other classic and collectable vehicles and motorcycles. We also represent vintage vehicle storage facilities, restoration facilities, collectors and vehicle enthusiasts, and are well versed in vehicle storage and mechanic’s lien laws. In particular, Michael Rogers’ is also a skilled mechanic himself having worked on and restored vintage vehicles since his youth, is a skilled motorcycle rider, and MotoGP and Formula 1 enthusiast.
TRANSPORTATION.
Helping clients maneuver through the inherent challenges and complexities tied to the transportation industry, including common carrier claims.
Transportation and trucking help drive California’s economy, and our work ensures that our clients in this vital industry are well protected. Since ROGERS SMITH’s inception, we have been at the forefront of legal matters related to moving people and products, and thoroughly involved in all aspects of the industry. Our transportation lawyers work in trucking, heavy equipment, cargo, and commercial litigation of transportation claims. We’ve represented local and long-haul trucking companies and delivery services, crane companies, taxi companies, bus companies, shuttle and limousine services, other commercial vehicle companies, and different types of common carriers.
We are a go-to law firm locally, regionally and nationally for all types of litigation related to transportation and trucking, and our knowledge of the intricacies of transportation and trucking law informs our ability to respond quickly when accidents occur in order to conduct scene investigations, driver interviews, preserve evidence (electronic and otherwise), ensure consistent document retention and production and evaluate options and opportunities. Our experience as transportation and trucking lawyers includes working with clients on catastrophic and wrongful death claims, broker and cargo claims, crane and rigging claims and local and interstate hauling.
In addition, our transactional and litigation practice includes guiding clients through common carrier liability issues (including elevators and escalators), watercraft liability, roadway design, construction and maintenance, and dangerous conditions of streets and highways.
CRAFT BEER.
With over 150 craft breweries, San Diego is home to a booming craft beer industry. We work with clients on everyday business matters and industry-specific challenges related to manufacturing, distributing and serving craft beer.
ROGERS SMITH’s attorneys are immersed in this fast-growing industry, helping brewers, breweries, alehouses, retailers, brew pubs and beer distributors with typical business practices and some of the legal complexities particular to the industry. In both a crowded marketplace and a fairly new industry, our considerable business experience contributes to our clients’ ongoing success, as we are able to guide them through business practices and challenges, such as setting up their company, negotiating a lease, or protecting their intellectual property.
Our experience and knowledge of the craft beer business also includes manufacturer, supplier and vendor relations, product licensing and distribution, lease negotiations, financing, product liability and other general liability issues. In addition, our attorneys are able to advise in areas related to employment issues, breach of contract claims, real estate acquisition and land use as well as unfair business practices.
While ROGERS SMITH attorneys work on a variety of transactional matters including business formation in this industry, our craft beer lawyers have also successfully represented clients in litigation related to trademark infringement, and employment and product liability claims. Not only do we work with many of California’s top breweries, but we also work closely with manufacturers, suppliers and all types of craft beer related companies. As California beer law continues to change, ROGERS SMITH continues to be a leader in this evolving industry.