Sidkoff, Pincus & Green, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

The work here centers on business disputes and the negotiations that come with them. The firm handles commercial litigation for companies, partners, shareholders, and individuals whose disagreements have reached a courtroom or an arbitration panel. Its own summary pairs business litigation with complex negotiations, which fits a caseload built around money and contracts.

The range of listed areas is wide for a firm of this size. It covers business torts, commercial disputes, contract law, and business transactions. It reaches partnership and shareholder disputes, class actions, securities fraud, and FINRA claims. The firm also names employment and discrimination cases, unpaid overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act, whistleblower and qui tam actions, non-compete and restrictive covenant matters, defamation, and trademark litigation. It handles appeals in state and federal courts as well.

In my opinion, that spread reads as a firm built around commercial conflict in several forms. A quarrel between business partners and a securities fraud claim call for different approaches, and the firm names both among its regular work.

How the team is built

The firm is small, and it presents its roster plainly. The attorneys page lists six members of the firm and two associates.

The members are Gary Green, Robert Davitch, Larry Keller, Casey Green, Samantha Green, and Stephen Fitzgerald. The associates are Rachel Dennis and Erin Darden. Three of the members carry the Green surname, one of the three names in the firm's title.

As a reviewer, I read a group of this shape as one where the members carry the matters and the associates support the caseload. Eight lawyers give the firm enough hands for litigation while keeping the roster tight. A small group also means the lawyer a client meets at the start is likely the one who stays on the file.

A long run in Philadelphia

The firm dates its founding to 1958 and marks more than 65 years of practice. It describes itself as one of the oldest law firms in the city, and the 1958 date sits on the home page banner. A run that long means the firm has worked through several economic cycles and shifts in Pennsylvania business law.

One detail fills in a piece of that history. The domain greatlawyers.com was registered for the firm in 1998 as a gift from a client after a business dispute. The firm still uses that domain for its website, a small sign of a client relationship that outlasted the case.

Where the clients come from

The firm represents clients locally, nationally, and internationally. It receives referrals from firms in other states and abroad, and it acts as local counsel on cases led elsewhere.

Local counsel work has a specific meaning. A firm running a case in another state often needs a lawyer admitted in Pennsylvania to file papers, appear before the local court, and keep the matter in step with Philadelphia rules and judges. Taking that role, and taking referral cases, tells you the firm is a known quantity to lawyers outside the city.

That kind of trust takes time to earn. When another firm hands over a client or asks for help on home ground, it is putting its own name behind the choice. The pattern shows a firm that other lawyers are willing to send work to.

How a business case unfolds

Business litigation follows a familiar arc, and knowing it helps a client set expectations. A case opens with pleadings, moves into discovery where each side exchanges documents and takes depositions, and often narrows through motions before any trial date. Many commercial matters settle once the evidence is on the table, and a firm that litigates for a living reads those odds early.

Partnership and shareholder disputes add their own wrinkle. They frequently turn on the value of a stake and on whether a partner met a fiduciary duty, and they can end in a buyout, a court-ordered accounting, or the wind-down of the business. Contract fights tend to hinge on the words of the agreement and on what each side did after signing. When a trial goes the wrong way, an appeal shifts the fight to the written briefs and to questions of legal error, with no new evidence taken.

Procedures behind whistleblower and FINRA claims

Several of the areas the firm names follow set procedures, and a short map helps a prospective client picture the road ahead. Qui tam and whistleblower cases start with a sealed complaint filed on behalf of the government, which then decides whether to join the action.

FINRA claims and securities fraud disputes often move through arbitration, where a panel hears evidence and issues an award. Class actions ask a court to certify a group of similar claimants before the case can proceed on their behalf. Non-compete fights usually turn on whether a restriction is reasonable in its time, its geography, and its scope. Unpaid overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act can proceed as collective actions, where workers with the same complaint opt in together. Employment and discrimination claims usually begin with a charge filed at a government agency before a lawsuit can follow.

None of this describes a specific outcome at the firm. It is the general shape of the matters the firm names, set down so a reader can see how their own problem might proceed. The firm has handled this kind of work in Philadelphia since 1958.