Practice Area: Bankruptcy / Chapter 11
Date: Feb 01, 2011
Outcome: Trial Court Decision Establishing Valuation of Property and Secured Status.
Description: Valuation and Plan-Confirmation Trial for Apartment Complex with Retail Space.
Practice Area: Real Estate
Date: Dec 01, 2010
Outcome: Arbitration award in favor of Downtown Woodinville shopping center as to restrictive-use clause and awarded all of the damages that it sought
Description: Downtown Woodinville shopping center opposed Starbucks' attempt to enforce restrictive-use clause... more
Practice Area: Real Estate
Date: May 01, 2010
Outcome: Specific Performance Granted with Monthly Payments Offset Against Purchase Price
Description: Specific-performance trial, tried with co-counsel Jackson Schmidt, for ownership of King County... more
Practice Area: Employment / Labor
Date: Dec 01, 2009
Outcome: Administrative Law Judge decided in favor of Bainbridge Island Ace Hardware and reversed Departmental decision
Description: Bainbridge Island Ace Hardware sought to deny unemployment compensation to former employee due to... more
Practice Area: Corporate / Incorporation
Date: Jul 01, 2007
Outcome: Court of Appeals affirmed trial court judgment and fee award; State Supreme Court reversed fee award and remanded to trial court, which then reinstated fee award in full. Judgment in favor of individual members of LLC and awarded attorneys' fees
Description: Dissenter's-right's trial where dissenter improperly asserted claims against members of limited... more
Practice Area: Corporate / Incorporation
Date: Sep 01, 2005
Outcome: Pair of arbitrations, with first to establish that other member breached fiduciary duties and that client was a member, and second arbitration to wind up the company
Description: Claim of breach of fiduciary duties against another member of LLC, defense of claim that client was... more
Practice Area: Corporate / Incorporation
Date: Jul 01, 2005
Outcome: Court of Appeals Affirmed Jury Verdicts
Description: Jury Verdicts of Fraudulent Transfer & Corporate Disregard Proven Against Successor Corporation and... more
Practice Area: Construction / Development
Date: Nov 01, 2004
Outcome: Arbitration award in favor of Vanderlip for extra work and remission of offsets.
Description: Claims for extra work on Marion Oliver McCaw Hall against the general contractor and to remit offsets.
Practice Area: Construction / Development
Date: Jun 01, 2003
Outcome: Arbitration award in favor of general contractor to remit liquidated damages, properly adjust substantial completion date, and to award payment for extra work against owner
Description: Claim by general contractor to remit liquidated damages, adjust substantial completion date, and... more
Practice Area: Real Estate
Date: May 01, 2003
Outcome: State Court of Appeals Reported Decision
Description: Title Coverage & Breach of Warranty Deed Dispute Resolved In Favor of Client (Trial Proceedings and... more