Find Lawyers in Missoula, Montana for Transportation Law
Practice Area Overview
Transportation law attorneys must be prepared to provide solutions and legal advice in many areas including:
- cargo claims
- civil litigation
- compliance issues with existing federal and state laws
- emergency response and crisis management
- environmental law
- general corporate matters
- independent contractor issues
- insurance coverage
- Jones Act
- labor and employment law
- liability defense
- mergers, acquisitions and corporate structuring
- monitoring of proposed and pending legislation
- personal injury and property damage claims
- real estate transactions
- risk management
- taxation
- transportation and logistics contracts
- workers’ compensation
An experienced transportation lawyer will be able to provide representation at both the state and federal court levels and is experienced in all of the issues related to the challenges of delivering, transporting and receiving commercial goods in intrastate, interstate and foreign commerce.
Jill Gerdrum is a civil litigator with a practice focused on product liability, transportation, premises liability, insurance defense, professional liability, and employment law. Jill’s product liability experience includes claims related to farm equipment, RV component parts, engine components, loading dock equipment, lawn mowers, medical supplies, livestock feed, and underground fuel tanks. In the transportation and premises liability arenas, she represents trucking companies, insurer...
Robert J. Phillips has been practicing since 1978 in areas of insurance defense or all kinds, including coverage opinions, coverage litigation and bad faith defense. He has tried numerous civil jury trials in various areas, including automobile, trucking, railroad, products liability, professional liability, construction defect and insurance bad faith, in State, Federal and Tribal courts. He has been lead counsel in many of the leading cases in Montana insurance law before the Montana Supreme...
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