Rail clients come to us for help with litigation, labor and employment needs, and tax assistance. Baker Donelson has been the leading litigation firm on behalf of almost all the major railroads and private carlines challenging discriminatory taxation by state and local governments. Utilizing a federal statute prohibiting such discrimination, our trial lawyers have represented the major railroads in state and federal courts in more than 30 states, before the United States Supreme Court, and the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth United States Courts of Appeal. The railroad industry has saved hundreds of millions of dollars due to the success of this litigation.
In addition to our tax work, we are national counsel to a Class 1 railroad on compliance with Federal regulation of noise in the workplace and noise-related claims and lawsuits. We also represent a newly formed Regional Railroad Authority, which aims to fund, construct and operate a railroad from the Gulf Coast up to Meridian, Mississippi.