Message from the Firm

By Gary Wexler

We are excited to share recent changes at the Firm. The most obvious is our name: we are now Reish & Reicher. We’ve also restructured our practice groups to better serve our clients’ needs. We now have eight practice groups, each chaired by one or more attorneys with at least 25 years of experience. We have recently included a Financial Services practice.

What hasn’t changed? Our commitment to excellence, to providing legally sound yet practical solutions to client problems, and to personalized service that has been a cornerstone of the firm since it was founded over 20 years ago.

Our business litigation practice remains vibrant. As always, our litigation attorneys represent companies and affluent individuals in all aspects of business litigation through arbitration, trial and appeal, remaining mindful of alternative dispute resolution and potential settlement opportunities.

This edition focuses on things that our clients should do to protect their interests at the onset of litigation. In our first article, Gary Wexler discusses an all-too-frequent mistake of a client ignoring a summons and complaint. The consequences of failing to respond to a summons and complaint include suffering a default judgment for the full amount of the damages claimed in the complaint. In the case discussed, our firm successfully set aside a default judgment in the amount of $10 Million after a new client and previous counsel failed to respond to a complaint.

In our second article, Joe Faucher and Pascal Benyamini address the obligation of the client to preserve Electronically Stored Information or “ESI” under the rules governing litigation in federal and state courts. The rules are intended to ensure that ESI such as e-mails and/or other electronic documents, are preserved. The client must not only be aware of these rules, but also take necessary steps to conform to them.