Employment Litigation

• Regularly obtaining favorable results for employers in litigation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings across the country involving discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, and retaliation claims.
• Obtaining summary judgment on behalf of an employer in a case involving claims for age discrimination, disability discrimination, and violation of rights under the FMLA.
• Defending and securing a favorable resolution on behalf of an employer in a class action filed by the EEOC alleging sex discrimination and retaliation on behalf of a class of current and former employees.
• Securing summary judgment on behalf of an employer on claims for sexual harassment, hostile work environment, and retaliation.
• Obtaining a dismissal with prejudice of a complaint asserting claims for race discrimination, national origin discrimination, and FMLA interference and retaliation.
• Obtaining a voluntary dismissal of a putative FLSA collective action involving overtime and meal break issues.
• Securing a dismissal in a breach of contract action involving a non-solicitation clause in a home care services contract.
• Favorably resolving all claims brought by a competitor alleging breach of restrictive covenant, misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, and unfair competition in connection with an employer’s hiring practices.

Financial Services Litigation

• Obtaining a precedent-setting dismissal on behalf of a financial technology company in a case of first impression seeking to hold the payment processor liable for funds embezzled by a business’s bookkeeper.
• Obtaining a complete defense judgment on behalf of a bank in a $4 million breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty action involving time deposit accounts held in an Individual Retirement Account.
• Securing a complete dismissal of claims asserted against a payment processing company involving a novel negligent enablement of imposter fraud theory of liability.
• Securing a favorable resolution on behalf of a national bank in a case asserting claims for elder abuse and romance fraud.
• Defending a financial technology company in a putative class action alleging that a browswer extension wrongfully diverted affiliate marketing commissions.
• Representing financial institutions and mortgage servicers at the trial court level and on appeal in cases arising under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and Truth in Lending Act.
• Representing a financial institution in a class action brought under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
• Defending a bank in a breach of contract action alleging improper escheatment of and failure to pay interest on certificate of deposit accounts.
• Defending a financial institution in litigation involving breach of contract and fraudulent inducement claims relating to the denial of a loan.
• Successfully compelling arbitration in numerous lawsuits filed against financial institutions, overcoming challenges to the enforceability of arbitration agreements.

Complex Contract & Business Disputes

• Achieving favorable resolutions for an insurance carrier in stop-loss insurance litigation in federal and state courts involving breach of contract and bad faith claims.
• Defending a business owner against a multi-count lawsuit arising from an owner’s departure from the business, including claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation of trade secrets, conversion, unjust enrichment, fraudulent misrepresentation, and tortious interference.
• Representing commercial landlords and tenants in lease disputes and eviction proceedings involving lease defaults, non-payment of rent, holdover tenants, tenant allowances and improvements, common area maintenance charges, and other breach of lease issues.
• Defending a contractor in Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) litigation involving claims by a labor union for unpaid fringe benefit contributions under alter ego and joint employer theories of liability.
• Representing a medical practice and its president in a lawsuit alleging breach of an asset purchase agreement following the sale of the practice.
• Defending a logistics company in litigation involving federal and state law claims for copyright infringement and unfair competition relating to the use of logistics software.
• Obtaining a dismissal in a complex adversary proceeding alleging fraudulent transfer and avoidance claims.
• Representing real estate developers in construction litigation involving claims that an insurer breached its duty to defend and indemnify under a commercial general liability policy.

Product Liability Litigation

• Defending a telecommunications company in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a motor vehicle accident allegedly caused by a utility line.
• Successfully defending an automobile manufacturer against design, manufacturing, and warning defect claims relating to a seat, seatback, and occupant restraint system.
• Successfully defending a commercial food equipment manufacturer in litigation involving design, manufacturing, and warning defect claims.
• Serving on a national defense counsel team in product liability cases throughout the country involving personal injuries and wrongful death claims allegedly caused by a food thickening product.