Hoke LLC
Legal Services - , Illinois, United States
Hoke LLC Details
Hoke LLC is known for its unique ability to employ strategic business solutions, in conjunction with traditional legal techniques to work out complex legacy liability issues. We work to divest you of these types of business obstacles, allowing you to focus on the future of your company, not the past. We counsel corporations and others in complex litigation disputes, high value insurance, and related work-out situations with a special focus on historical legacy liabilities such as asbestos and environmental, as well as D&O/E&O exposures. We are a focused boutique firm with six attorneys and three analysts, (three staff members have MBA's). Stephen Hoke is a nationally recognized expert in insurance, corporate successor liability and mass tort consulting. Steve is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management MBA and Indiana University. We also have an established stable of accomplished strategic partners that can provide complementary financial, legal, analytical and information management services quickly and efficiently. We have represented many major corporations and venture capital firms in the manufacturing, chemical, aviation, consumer product and financial services industries in insurance coverage litigation regarding: asbestos, environmental contamination, including soil and groundwater involving PCB, TCE, DBCP, PERC, and pesticides, talc, food additives and other products; work-out and corporate successor liability issues; and, insurance coverage issues, such as number of "occurrences"; applicability of pollution and product liability exclusions; and trigger, exhaustion and allocation issues. We have served as National Coordinating Counsel for a major asbestos and talc defendant, and have represented clients in D&O/E&O. We represent financial institutions and investors in financial and failed bank litigation as both plaintiff's and defense counsel. It recovered nearly $30MM for individual plaintiffs in minority shareholder litigation. Stephen Hoke has served as a defense expert witness in a $20MM securities arbitration. We have recovered over $250MM for our clients in the last six years. Serving as Insurance Litigation Counsel, National Coordinating Counsel, and recovery consultants, we have vastly reduced expenses and streamlined processes for our clients. We are at the forefront of the increasingly critical field of historical corporate successor liability analyses. We are nationally known for identifying creative solutions to intractable legal problems. We do not limit ourselves to traditional responses to seemingly insurmountable legal problems and instead actively seek unconventional but effective solutions. We have a long list of satisfied clients as references that can attest that we go above and beyond the traditional law firm approach. We collaborate with our clients for their ideal fee agreement. We are willing to consider any reasonable fee arrangement from traditional straight hourly, to blended, to full contingency only on recovery.
