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Sidley has significant experience representing accounting, law and other professional services firms in professional liability litigation, regulatory matters and government investigations. With highly skilled and experienced lawyers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., we are able to provide efficient and comprehensive assistance in matters arising all over the country and in any forum. Our practitioners have the skill, knowledge and experience to handle any professional liability matters, and we have the ability to bring all of Sidley’s vast resources to bear on issues facing our clients. Lawyers in our practice include first chair trial lawyers, former federal prosecutors and other high-ranking Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement lawyers, a past president of the D.C. Bar Association and more than a dozen partners with over 20 years of experience representing professional services firms.

Our lawyers have represented professionals and professional services firms in matters in more than 38 states and in malpractice, securities and other cases in federal and state court, in mediations and arbitrations, in federal and state government investigations, and in disciplinary proceedings before state boards of accountancy and state bar associations. Our discovery capabilities allow us to assist our clients in meeting the obligation to preserve, collect and produce documents in an appropriate manner, whether our clients are parties to a litigation matter, subject to a government inquiry or simply served with a non-party subpoena.
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