Blanchet LLP goes where clients need representation and brings hard-won litigation skill and experience to complex problems that cut across forums, industries, and narrowly defined practice areas. The Firm is built to solve hard problems where the law, facts, industry, context, forum, and stakes are all in motion, and where judgment, discipline, adaptability, and trial skill matter most.
From offices in Buffalo, New York City, and Chicago, this mindset and model have proven successful in scores of forums and across a broad range of practice areas, including the following:
Blanchet represents companies, executives, owners, and investors in high-stakes business disputes, including contract claims, business torts, fiduciary-duty disputes, governance conflicts, fraud claims, partnership disputes, and post-transaction litigation. The firm focuses on cases where business realities, legal leverage, and litigation strategy must be managed together.
Blanchet handles complex environmental disputes involving CERCLA, remediation claims, cost recovery, contribution, allocation, natural resource damages, toxic exposure, permitting, enforcement, and regulatory-adjacent litigation. The firm brings particular strength to matters involving scientific, technical, historical, and multi-party proof.
Blanchet defends manufacturers, suppliers, premises owners, and corporate clients in product liability and personal injury cases involving alleged defects, warnings, causation, exposure, and damages. These matters often require disciplined expert strategy, careful fact development, and the ability to translate technical issues for judges, juries, and adversaries.
Blanchet represents clients in coordinated, aggregated, and putative class action litigation involving large claimant groups, recurring fact patterns, and enterprise-level exposure. The firm is experienced in managing the procedural, strategic, scientific, and settlement pressures that distinguish mass litigation from ordinary one-off disputes.
Blanchet represents companies and individuals in internal investigations, government inquiries, enforcement matters, and white collar defense involving alleged fraud, misconduct, regulatory violations, and corporate governance issues. The firm helps clients assess facts quickly, manage risk, protect privilege, and respond strategically before litigation or enforcement positions harden.
Blanchet represents issuers, officers, directors, underwriters, and investors in securities litigation, including securities fraud claims, shareholder class and derivative actions, disclosure and proxy disputes, M&A and appraisal litigation, and SEC and FINRA enforcement and regulatory matters. The firm pairs courtroom experience with a working command of the financial, accounting, and market evidence these cases turn on.
Blanchet handles disputes involving trade secrets, restrictive covenants, employee mobility, fiduciary duties, unfair competition, confidentiality obligations, executive departures, and workplace-related business claims. The firm focuses on fast-moving cases where injunctive relief, confidential information, business continuity, and reputational risk are often in play.