San Rafael, CA
Appeals Lawyer at San Rafael, CA
Practice Areas: Appeals, Litigation
OUTCOME: complete victory
This was a $30 million eminent domain trial involving the value of land taken from a shopping center for a BART station. Duties included: conducting discovery; taking depositions; drafting and respon ... ding to motions; hiring and working with experts; supervising paralegals; and drafting witness outlines.
OUTCOME: Complete victory for our client
We represented Dr. Julio Palmaz, who invented the stent, a medical device used with angioplasties to keep previously-clogged arteries from collapsing once they are opened. Several doctors who worked w ... ith Dr. Palmaz claimed they had invented the stent. All cases were either settled with the opposition paying damages or were decided in our client’s favor in court. Duties included: conducting discovery; drafting, responding to and arguing motions; drafting witness outlines; working with the FDA and PTO to have new patents issued; drafting the jury charge and post-trial motions; and supervising paralegals.
OUTCOME: We recovered far more for our client than it lost due to the Defendants actions.
Our corporate client, 50-Off, sued Banques Paribas Suisse (BPS) and Chase Manhattan Bank for conversion of stock when one of BPS’ customers stole 50-Off’s stock worth $6 million that was being held in ... trust at Chase Manhattan Bank for a Regulation S offering. The jury found that Chase intentionally disregarded notices from 50-OFF that the purchasers had not yet paid for the stock, and awarded $13 million in actual and compensatory damages and $138 million in punitive damages. Duties included: drafting responses to motions; researching the substantive federal securities laws; helping draft the jury charge; drafting and responding to post-trial motions; assisting at trial; and drafting portions of the response brief in the defendants’ appeal to the Fifth Circuit.
OUTCOME: overturned a $77 million judgment against out client
I drafted an amicus curiae brief that raised the winning issue to reverse a $77 million judgment on a $40,000 liability insurance policy and made new law regarding an insurance company’s responsibility ... for a judgment in all third party liability cases in Texas.
OUTCOME: complete victory
The Edwards Aquifer Authority hired us just three weeks prior to trial in this case brought by municipal water districts and citizens seeking to have new statutes regulating riparian rights declared un ... constitutional. We successfully defended the statutes. Duties included: serving as the second chair at trial; drafting, responding to, and arguing all motions; and sole responsibility for drafting the winning brief in the Texas Supreme Court.
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