First-class civil litigators
Civil and Commercial Litigation
Our civil lawyers handle a wide range of legal disputes with boundless creativity, expert writing and advocacy, Getting to Yes negotiation skills and settlement drafting, and, when necessary, top-drawer trial work.
And like Special Forces or a great professional sports team, we also build the right team for every arena.
Smart Litigation for a Complex World
Civil litigation is rarely simple. Cases involve thousands of documents, competing stories, high stakes, and unpredictable human behavior. At DeepLaw, our civil litigators bring decades of courtroom experience together with technology, strategy, and storytelling to create better outcomes—and better value—for our clients.
Civil Litigators Who Build the Smartest Legal Teams
Litigation is strategy. It’s also storytelling. That’s why our clients win.
When litigation threatens your business, your reputation, or your life’s work, you don’t just need firepower. You need strategy. You need civil litigators who understand business, technology, persuasion, and risk — and who center you, the client, as the smartest person in the room about the facts.
At DeepLaw, we build every civil case around three principles:
Litigation must be a business decision, not a reflex.
The client must stay at the center of the case strategy.
The legal team must be greater than the sum of its parts.
Litigators with Real Trial Credentials — and Real-Life Experience
DeepLaw’s founders bring a rare blend of courtroom wins and entrepreneurial insight.
Cameron Powell, a former trial lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice, earned multiple awards for excellence from the Attorney General and DOJ leadership. He’s tried cases in federal courtrooms from coast to coast, winning DOJ’s largest-ever Clean Water Act judgment and a Clean Air Act trial and successfully defending the United States against hundreds of millions of dollars in claims. Later, in private practice and general counsel roles, he protected startups and enterprise clients in IP disputes, commercial litigation, and bet-the-company conflicts.
Gary Shuster, a fellow Harvard Law grad and civil litigator trained at Dewey Ballantine, is best known for his mind-bending creativity: 255 issued patents, and counting. That rare inventive range makes him an unmatched strategic thinker in complex disputes — especially where invention, licensing, or tech are at stake. He’s indispensable in figuring out how to use data from discovery and in developing unique legal theories that win.
Together, Cameron, Gary, and the teams they build balance logic and imagination, legal rigor and empathy. And they don’t go it alone.
Every Client Gets a Custom-Assembled Team of Top Trial Lawyers
No lawyer, no matter how gifted, is the right fit for every issue in a modern civil dispute. That’s why DeepLaw doesn’t rely on a single in-house bench. Instead, we build the right team for your case — calling in subject-matter experts from the nation’s top boutiques and litigation firms when needed.
Through our affiliations with Gregor Wynne Arney PLLC and Coleman & Horowitt LLP, and our extensive private network, we staff matters with:
White collar and regulatory defense attorneys
High-tech IP and trade secret litigators
Appellate advocates
Commercial arbitration specialists
You’ll never get a “standard team.” You’ll get your team.
Teams Built Like Special Forces
Great results come from the right team. We assemble agile, diverse groups the way elite organizations do—whether Special Forces, software startups, or musical ensembles. Each member brings unique expertise, perspective, and creativity. We adapt our team to the demands of the case, so clients get the right blend of trial lawyers, negotiators, subject matter experts, and technologists.
The Client at the Center
We believe the smartest person in the room is the client. DeepLaw’s role is to harness the client’s knowledge and passion through intelligent collaboration. Using technology that enables transparency, real-time updates, and collaborative drafting, we make the client the core of the litigation team. This ensures strategies align with client goals and lived realities—not just legal theories.
Decades of Experience in Court and at the Table
Our civil litigators are not only trial-tested but also seasoned in negotiation, settlement, and mediation. We combine:
Litigation experience: From pleadings to discovery to trial advocacy
Negotiation expertise: Finding leverage points and maximizing value
Creative settlement drafting: Crafting durable, innovative resolutions that avoid future disputes
Evidence-based storytelling: Persuading judges, juries, and opponents with compelling narratives rooted in fact
Tech-Savvy, Human-First Trial Lawyers
We practice what we preach about technology. Our litigation teams use secure collaboration platforms that let you track strategy, evidence, and deliverables in real time — without drowning in legalese. Cameron and Gary know what matters most to clients: being heard, being protected, and being looped in.
They also know what juries and judges respond to: clarity, credibility, and a human story.
Whether the dispute involves software code, broken contracts, trademark infringement, or whistleblower claims, we speak the language of your business and industry. And we translate it persuasively to the courtroom.
What This Means for You
You’ll never be sidelined: We put clients at the center of litigation strategy, using tools that make it easy to collaborate and lead.
You get a tailored team: No rigid staffing model — we bring in specialists to complement our founders’ unique strengths.
You gain courtroom experience + creativity: We’ve litigated and won, from federal environmental cases to IP and commercial contract battles.
We Handle Most Civil and Commercial Disputes
We have experience with a variety of civil and commercial disputes, including:
- Patent infringement litigation
- Trademark infringement litigation
- Commercial disputes (breach of contract, etc.)
- Whistleblower and qui tam litigation
- Malpractice and personal injury
- A variety of contingency fee cases
- We also work with former prosecutors to build powerful white-collar criminal-defense lawyer teams
Schedule a Strategy Session with Our Civil Litigators
Bring us your toughest case. We’ll bring the judgment, storytelling, and team to win it.
Talk to us about your dispute
Let’s Start a Conversation. We’ll help you understand how to resolve the disagreement you’re in, and educate you about how to build the right team to do it.