Case Results
Sucess stories
- Successfully defended a national insurance company against consumer fraud, RESPA, and other tort claims in class actions in state and federal courts in multiple jurisdictions.
- Successfully defended a national class action regarding industrial life insurance that resulted in the first denial of class certification in that area.
- Defeated class certification, obtained summary judgment and other dispositive dismissals, and won appeals of multiple, multi-million dollar lawsuits.
- Served as National Coordinating Counsel for a large, public insurance company in litigation throughout the United States in federal and state courts while achieving numerous dismissals and denials of class certification.
- Successfully represented major property and casualty insurance company in multiple class actions filed in Madison County, Illinois.
- Represented and advised clients in connection with life settlements related litigation.
- Successfully represented clients in United States Court of Appeals for 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 9th Circuits, as well as various state courts of appeal.
- Achieved the dismissal of a “vanishing premium” class action, which the court ordered prior to any discovery.
- Represented publicly traded company in connection with New York Attorney General investigation regarding retained asset accounts.
- Represented multiple insurance brokers in connection with multiple state Attorney General investigations regarding contingent commissions.
- Defended an international company in connection with a federal criminal antitrust investigation regarding price fixing and bid rigging.
- Successfully represented a client in a fair housing act trial. The jury awarded a substantial verdict in favor of his clients.
- Represented a client in a breach of contract jury trial that resulted in a multi-million dollar recovery for his client.
- Prosecuted a Ponzi scheme securities fraud action, successfully defended a national multi-district litigation, handled a shareholder dispute in a private, closely-held company, and various other commercial matters.
- Represented owner of a private company, preserved the client’s ownership of the company, and favorably resolved a dispute over personal real estate.
- Represented owner of a private company in connection with accounting and tax fraud perpetrated by the company’s auditor.
- Currently representing several businesses in intellectual property disputes over trademarks and tradenames.
- Currently representing multiple businesses and individuals in connection with breach of contract actions for failure to pay outstanding invoices or other debts owed.
- Currently representing several businesses or individual owners/partners with regard to business dissolution and/or ownership disputes.