The Firm has substantial experience in all phases of litigation, and regularly represents clients in jury and non-jury trials before both state and federal courts.  Our trial experience allows us to effectively streamline and focus the litigation and discovery process from its inception as we can anticipate and prepare the disputed issues for trial. We utilize a team approach to litigation, drawing upon the abilities, insight, and experience of many of the Firm’s attorneys. We recognize the importance of communication with our clients and regularly report on the status of pending cases, and meaningfully involve our clients in the decision making process.

The Firm's litigation expertise encompasses a wide range of business-related disputes, including those involving conflicting interpretations or breaches of contract, employment relationships, partnership and corporate dissolutions, commercial and residential real property, intellectual property, insurance coverage, and business torts such as fraud, unfair competition, interference with business, breach of fiduciary duty, and conversion, for example.  The Firm represents clients in a variety of industries from entrepreneurs to large publicly held corporations. We have the capacity and expertise to take a leading role in multi-party complex litigation, and the flexibility to handle smaller cases in a cost effective manner.

The Firm recognizes that sometimes our clients are better served by staying out of court, and pursuing mediation or arbitration to resolve a dispute. We regularly counsel our clients on ways to avoid litigation or to position themselves for success should litigation become necessary. The Firm's lawyers work with their clients to determine the most effective path to reaching the client's goals, which path may be pre-litigation negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or full scale litigation and trial.

Representative examples of the Firm’s most recent litigation accomplishments include the following:

·                      Obtained a jury verdict in favor of our client of $14.2 million in compensatory damages, and $10 million in punitive damages, in a breach of contract and statutory violation action by a cardiac surgeon and his corporation against a hospital.

·                      Garnered a $10 million fraud judgment in favor of our client, including $2 million in punitive damages, in an action where the client, a manufacturer of an over-the-counter medication, was initially sued for $276,000 in a breach of contract action.

·                      Eliminated a $1.4 million breach of contract claim against our client on summary adjudication, and obtained $1.35 million in a mid-trial settlement for the client, an international manufacturer of precision slides.

·                      Achieved a complete defense decision in a $5 million fraud action by a disgruntled investor against the officers and directors of a start-up internet record company.

·                      Dismissed two successive actions in federal and state court attempting to hold our client, a video and film distribution company, liable for an alleged predecessor’s acts.

·                      Obtained a nuisance-value settlement for our client, a real estate investment group, in a sexual harassment action where plaintiff had initially sought in excess of $1 million.