Representative Cases

• Construction Defect and Contract: extensive experience interpreting AIA contracts and ascertaining duties among general contractors, sub-contractors and sub-sub-contractors
• Construction and Architectural Malpractice: settled suit between defendant developer, architect and various contractors and neighboring property owner who alleged that defendants’ negligent construction of a townhome complex caused the collapse of property owner’s eight-story commercial building
• Construction: suit between condominium association and developer alleging improper construction resulted in water intrusion into condominiums and common areas of a 26-floor building; settled case after lengthy negotiations
• Contract: experience with written, oral and quasi-contract cases in a variety of contexts, including asset purchase agreements, operating agreements, entertainment performance contracts, promissory notes, guarantees, private loans, partnership agreements, insurance policies and employment agreements
• Contract: settled case involving defendant hospital and plaintiff medical practice group that alleged improper termination of medical services contract and tortious interference with its contracts and business expectancies with patients and other hospitals
• Contract: settled case alleging fraudulent inducement to enter into an asset purchase agreement by inflating past sales figures
• Estates: handled interference with contract, business expectancies or testamentary behests in the employment, banking, creditor and trust and estate contexts
• Employment, Sexual Harassment and Discrimination: settled case filed by woman against her former law firm employer for alleged sexual harassment and racial discrimination
• Employment: settled case filed by former college professor claiming university fired him in retaliation for criticizing administration

• Fiduciary Duty: settled case brought by beneficiaries against trustee alleging she converted trust assets for personal use
• Fiduciary Duty and Legal Malpractice: suit against successor trustees, with plaintiff claiming breach of fiduciary duty in administering five related trusts and malpractice by attorney for trusts in drafting improper in terrorem clause
• Fraud: presided over case involving fraudulent life insurance premium financing scheme between bank executive and client that resulted in loss of millions by investors
• Fraud and Defamation: settled case involving computer software designer who created highly profitable arbitrage program but alleged he was fraudulently squeezed out of his business by former partner
• Insurance Coverage: numerous cases involving claims under various types of policies, such as commercial general liability, property and title insurance
• Insurance Coverage: settled policyholder’s case for coverage of extensive damage to roof of manufacturing facility
• Legal Malpractice: successfully settled case in which client alleged malpractice relating to structuring of a complex joint venture for licensing and sale of medical products overseas
• Legal Malpractice: settled suit alleging malpractice in litigating enforcement of notes, confession of judgments and guarantees
  Medical Malpractice: “bad baby” suit alleging catastrophic injuries at birth due to HIE; case settled after lengthy settlement negotiations.
• Medical Malpractice: delay in diagnosing compartment syndrome, leading to full loss of function of affected extremity; successfully settled
• Partnership Dispute: partner accused long-time partners of self-dealing and misappropriation of partnership assets and opportunities; settled case
• Professional Malpractice: cases relating to accounting and architectural malpractice
• Trade Secrets: defendant manufacturer accused of misappropriating trade secrets relating to the design of a machine used for tooling sheet metal