Practices

Practice Areas Moving, Storage & Transportation

Oved & Oved LLP has developed an extensive proficiency and expertise in counseling many interstate and intrastate movers, storage houses and warehouses in all commercial aspects of their businesses, including appearing before the United States Department of Transportation ("DOT") on behalf of our clients and being intimately familiar with the applicable DOT rules and regulations.

Our attorneys have successfully handled matters involving, property damage litigation, cargo claims, contractual dispute resolution, insurance coverage disputes, regulatory compliance and transactional work.

Transportation
The firm handles legal issues of transportation companies, logistics providers and their customers. Oved & Oved LLP's clients include carriers, shippers, freight forwarders, brokers and logistics companies. Our transportation attorneys serve clients in the following areas:

• Represent carriers and shippers in disputes involving federal and state transportation laws.
• Prepare and review transportation contracts, logistics agreements, equipment leases, independent contractor agreements, acquisitions, shipping documents, rate tariffs and carrier interchange agreements.
• Represent national, regional and local carrier management in collective bargaining, union representation proceedings, multi-employer grievance hearings, grievance arbitration, drafting of policies and procedures, and other labor relations issues unique to transportation through mediation, mini-trials and arbitration.
• Represent carriers in the buying, selling or leasing of terminal facilities.
• Defense of workers compensation claims for transportation companies.
• Labor and employment disputes involving Federal and state statutory and administrative agencies including OSHA, Department of Transportation, NLRB, EEOC, Department of Labor and comparable state agencies.
• Prepare and review benefit plans to comply with IRS, ERISA and related agency requirements.
• Development of personnel plans reflecting unique circumstances of the transportation industry.
• Review multi-employer pension plans and withdrawal liability issues.
• Represent transportation companies in employment and civil rights litigation in state and federal courts, including disability discrimination claims presenting issues unique to the industry.