Practicing law is more than an expression. With over three decades of practice, Ferris & Britton is highly experienced at protecting and advancing their clients’ interests. To know the “lay of the land” is an invaluable advantage. Their clients, from individuals and emerging businesses to well-established, publicly traded companies, have selected Ferris & Britton because of their experience, expertise, reputation and work product.
Ferris & Britton is a general business law firm with particular experience in high-technology areas such as biotechnology, wired and wireless broadband communications, and computer technology. Naturally, business law overlaps into other areas of law. Thus, they also have extensive experience in the fundamental areas of employment, government regulation, real estate, tax, estate planning and asset protection. They guide emerging and established businesses in structuring, financing, licensing, acquiring, and merging companies. They provide the legal guidance and documentation required when issuing securities, including IPOs and private offerings. They have expertise in dealing with laws that regulate business such as FEHA, FLSA and ADA and agencies such as Cal/OSHA, NLRB, CPUC, EEOC and the FCC. They counsel and represent companies in the development and implementation of employment policies and procedures and labor union relations. They vigorously represent, protect and defend businesses, their owners and investors in litigation before state and federal courts. Their practice is focused and sophisticated.
The firm has an “AV” (top) rating from the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and is one of only a handful of San Diego firms, large or small, contained in Martindale-Hubbell’s Register of Preeminent Lawyers. The firm’s lawyers are alumni of Stanford, Duke, UCLA, University of Chicago, University of San Diego, St. Louis University and other prominent law schools. Many of the firm’s lawyers were members of their respective law reviews or legal honor societies, or both. Some have clerked for judges of the federal or state courts prior to joining the firm. All bring to the firm a superior record of academic, professional and civic achievement. The firm includes lawyers admitted to practice in California, Ohio, Missouri and Illinois.
