Bellevue, WA
Litigation Lawyer at Bellevue, WA
Practice Areas: Litigation, Intellectual Property ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Prevailed at trial.
Plaintiff's wrongful termination employment discrimination case. Prevailed at trial, winning substantial lost wages and $200,000 for emotional distress damages.
OUTCOME: Preliminary injunction obtained shortly after lawsuit filed.
Breach of a non-competition, non-solicitation agreement and intentional interference with contractual expectancies case.
OUTCOME: The State of Washington recovered $3.5 million, and the whistleblower received $292,800 of the government’s recovery
First relator lawsuit filed under the qui tam whistleblower provision of the Washington State Medicaid Fraud False Claims Act.
OUTCOME: Government recovered $18.5 million.
False Claims Act qui tam whistleblower suit.
OUTCOME: Settled
Represented Washington State Supreme Court Justice Faith Ireland (ret.), who was appointed Guardian ad Litem for Michael R. Mastro in Washington’s largest bankruptcy proceeding.
OUTCOME: After 5 weeks trial, case settled.
The central causes of action between competiting restaurants involved Washington common law trade dress infringement and common law unfair competition. Plaintiffs' (clients') restaurant is the Peso's ... restaurant in the lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The primary defendants own or operate four Matador restaurants in Washington. The settlement with the Washington Matador restaurants and their owners requires: (1) the Seattle Ballard neighborhood Matador restaurant to make substantial changes to its decor with respect to certain trade dress elements claimed by Peso's restaurant, (2) the Washington Matador restaurants to change menus and menu covers, and (3) the Washington Matador restaurants and certain of their owners and founders to pay a settlement amount to plaintiffs. In addition, the founders and Washington Matador restaurants are prohibited from leasing or opening additional Matador restaurants or restaurants of the same genre for three years within defined territorial limits in the cities of Seattle (most of Seattle) and within 4 miles of Lincoln Square in Bellevue, Washington. Case will be dismissed and changes are to be completed by middle of 2009.
OUTCOME: Won on summary judgment dismissal
Trade dress infringement suit; successfully invalidated federal trade dress registration on summary judgment due to functionality of design. Trial court affirmed on appeal.
OUTCOME: Settled favorably
Successfully defended advertising agency in copyright infringement case brought by photographer.
OUTCOME: Prevailed on summary judgment.
Breach of construction contract case. This case officially established the rule that corporate entities must be represented by a licensed attorney. Lloyd Enters., Inc. v. Longview Plumbing & ... Heating Co., 91 Wn. App. 697
OUTCOME: Defense verdict on adverse possession claim. Trial court awarded a prescriptive easment, which was reversed on appeal.
Adverse possession property dispute between neighbors. I represented the defendant.
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