Representative Work
- Presided over more than 70 commercial arbitration matters including as solo, panel chair and wing panelist.
- As an arbitrator, currently handles a concentration of matters involving disputes between healthcare providers and insurers.
- Extensive first chair jury trial and arbitration experience including seven and eight figure awards for claimants in arbitration and several verdicts and/or awards for defendants or respondents in cases with multi-million dollar exposure.
- Trial experience includes contract, securities, M&A litigation, trade secret, false advertising and professional negligence.
- Experienced in merger and acquisition litigation and arbitration, including pre-closing disputes, post-closing adjustment and earn-out cases, and fraud and breach of representation/warranty claims.
- Representation of major manufacturers as plaintiffs and defendants in contract, warranty, trade secret and other business tort cases.
- Has represented issuers, investment advisors, collateral managers, outside directors, audit committee members and other fiduciaries in securities litigation.
- Lead counsel in a highly publicized 2011 federal court trial in a major Lanham Act false advertising case between the leading competitors in the hot dog market.
- Represented an equity committee successfully challenging the sale of a bankrupt corporation’s disaster recovery business after the market for such services was radically changed by the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
- Represented a healthcare company and trainer in one of the first lawsuits seeking recovery for concussion injuries of a professional football player.
- Represented newly licensed casinos in Illinois and Indiana in major ownership disputes.
- Handled dozens of arbitration matters as an advocate, including AAA, CPR and CBOE arbitrations.