About Bates & Carey LLP

Bates & Carey LLP is a select group of experienced attorneys with a long history of providing the highest quality legal services to a variety of clients, including insurers and reinsurers as well as publicly and privately held corporations, partnerships and sole proprietorships.

We provide dispute resolution and claim counseling services to numerous domestic and international insurers and reinsurers. These services include the representation of insurers and reinsurers in declaratory judgment actions and in arbitration and mediation proceedings throughout the United States. Bates & Carey LLP attorneys have extensive experience in the national coordination of coverage litigation, and counseling and advising insurers on legal issues arising from claims not in litigation.

Our attorneys have successfully represented primary and excess insurers, and reinsurers, in a wide variety of insurance coverage claims, including environmental and mass tort litigation, professional liability, bad faith, employment-related practices, unfair competition, and construction defect claims, as well as transportation accidents. In addition, our attorneys are at the forefront of assessing the unique challenges confronting the insurance industry created by the Internet, the rise of e-commerce, and the rapid digitalization of the global business community.

Bates & Carey LLP also represents national and multi-national businesses in a wide variety of general commercial litigation matters including breach of contract, deceptive trade practices, unfair competition, and false advertising actions. We represent businesses in nation-wide consumer class actions, employment disputes, distributor terminations, as well as corporate and partnership dissolutions. Bates & Carey LLP attorneys also have experience in dealing with construction litigation and transportation matters.

Our central location in Chicago facilitates easy access to courts in jurisdictions throughout the country which allows us to represent our clients' interests nationwide in a cost effective manner. Our attorneys regularly appear before courts and in alternative forums throughout the United States.