Sentences with phrase «fiduciary litigation involving»

He regularly represents employers / plan sponsors, plan administrators and insurers in ERISA and fiduciary litigation involving health and welfare benefits, retirement benefits and compensation plans defending claims brought by individual participants or beneficiaries.

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Sheppard Mullin's Private Wealth and Fiduciary Litigation team includes some of the most successful trial attorneys in the country in disputes over private wealth, most notably involving trusts, decedents» estates and conservatorships or adult guardianships.

In the trust and estate litigation arena, he represents corporate trustees, individual trustees, personal representatives, and beneficiaries in disputes involving breaches of fiduciary duty, dissipation of trust or estate assets, and claims of lack of testamentary capacity, undue influence and fraud.

Our commercial litigation practice includes, but is not limited to, lawsuits involving Breach of Contract; Breach of the Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing; Breach of Fiduciary Duty; Negligence; Fraud; Common Counts; Declaratory Relief; Specific Performance; Unfair Business Practices and partnership disputes.

Fiduciary litigation concerns disputes involving trusts and estates.

His trust and estate litigation practice includes representing corporate trustees, individual trustees, personal representatives and beneficiaries in disputes involving breaches of fiduciary duty, dissipation of trust or estate assets, and claims of lack of testamentary capacity, undue influence and fraud.

During his 21 - year legal career, Mr. Goldberg has litigated hundreds of cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States involving claims of retaliation, discrimination, wrongful termination, fraud, defamation, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract, as well as commercial contract disputes, civil RICO, ERISA, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, corporate governance disputes, minority shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, Madoff counseling and defense, advancement and indemnification proceedings, whistleblower actions (SOX and CEPA), executive compensation counseling, litigation, and arbitration, international litigation and arbitration, antitrust litigation and arbitration, products liability litigation, environmental and toxic tort litigation, and securities fraud.

Michael Muse - Fisher represents public and private companies in a variety of state, federal and administrative cases involving contract disputes, commercial litigation, licensing and intellectual property matters, eminent domain / inverse condemnation, government tort liability, breach of fiduciary duty, as well as land - related torts.

Representation of minority shareholders in home healthcare franchising companies in various state court litigation involving breach of fiduciary duty, breach of a shareholders» agreement, fraud and other tort claims, including successfully prosecuting charges for violation of court orders freezing millions of corporate funds, resulting in a civil contempt judgment that included a jail sentence.

Representation of small and mid-sized Arizona companies in litigation involving claims of fraud, securities fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and employment disputes.

He has experience in a variety of litigation matters, including actions involving the fiduciary duties of directors, officers, and controlling stockholders, mergers and acquisitions litigation, securities fraud litigation and other corporate governance disputes.

He is an ardent litigator, serving as lead counsel in numerous civil jury trials involving medical - malpractice, contract disputes, defamation and related business torts, shareholder disputes (e.g., tortious interference with business relationship, trade secret, and non-compete violations), shareholder and LLC disputes and their fiduciary obligations, real - estate litigation, construction litigation, and creditors rights» issues and related bankruptcy and receivership issues.

The most frequent breach of fiduciary duty litigation involves a partner, officer, or trusted advisor's self - dealing.

She has represented corporations, executives, and other individuals in government and internal investigations, criminal proceedings, and civil litigation involving allegations of securities and accounting fraud, antitrust violations, and breach of fiduciary duty.

Peter has handled well in excess of 1000 securities litigation matters involving claims for violation of federal and state securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, unauthorized trading, unsuitability, elder abuse and related claims.

His business litigation work includes trying cases involving intellectual property disputes, breaches of contract and fiduciary duties, business torts, corporate espionage, defamation, whistleblowing and qui tam actions and securities fraud.

He manages all aspects of litigation and consistently obtains favorable outcomes, from early dismissals and resolutions to verdicts, for clients in business litigation disputes involving breach of contract and fiduciary duties, restrictive covenants, business dissolutions, partnerships and joint ventures, derivative corporate claims, note defaults and workouts, and intellectual property.

Our employment lawyers manage all forms of employment - related litigation, including cases involving ERISA fiduciary duties, executive termination, employment discrimination, employee fraud and unpaid compensation.

Michelle R. Rack brings her considerable litigation experience to the Firm to serve clients involved in disputes arising in the context of contested wills and trusts and breaches of fiduciary duty requiring the judicial removal of executors and trustees, as well as conservators and attorneys - in - fact engaging in financial exploitation of vulnerable seniors.

Peter D. Coffman (Business Litigation)-- Coffman, a partner and trial lawyer, represents corporations and individuals in disputes involving business torts, commercial contracts, fiduciary obligations and creditors» rights.

Manages a docket of civil litigation matters involving claims of breaches of fiduciary duty, fraud, misrepresentations, DTPA violations, and negligence involving prominent real estate brokers and agents

He represents clients in complex civil and commercial litigation, including extensive experience in securities litigation, product liability litigation, bankruptcy - related disputes, contract disputes, and disputes involving breaches of fiduciary duties by directors, officers, shareholders and partners.

She also draws on her background in commercial litigation to represent employers in cases that involve employee theft of trade secrets, non-compete agreements, defamation, fraud, business interference and violations of the fiduciary duties owed by an employee to his / her employer.

Acted as lead trial counsel in a successful jury trial in the Business Litigation Session between shareholders of a close corporation involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty, shareholder status, and wrongful termination.

He focuses on complex commercial litigation, particularly contract actions, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties and other business torts, intra-company disputes and business divorce claims involving partnerships and LLCs, employment claims, and derivative and class action claims.

Jim has been lead counsel in a wide variety of complex civil litigation, including cases involving breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference, conspiracy, anti-trust, deceptive trade, insurance code violations, partnership disputes, corporate governance / ownership disputes, breach of express and implied warranty / covenants, RICO, sexual harassment, constitutional claims, assault, battery, libel, slander, trespass, nuisance, product defect and negligence.

Faisel's experience of business litigation includes high value contractual disputes, directors» personal liability, fiduciary obligations of directors, cases involving illegality, actions against receivers, actions against fiduciaries / agents and cases involving consideration of Quistclose trusts.

Ladd has extensive experience prosecuting and defending complex business litigation matters, including disputes involving claims for breach of contract, business fraud, violations of fiduciary duties, breach of non-compete covenants, theft of trade secrets and business defamation.

When representing clients involved in Arizona probate and estate litigation, whether fiduciaries or beneficiaries, we seek a prompt resolution to disputes.

Mark has recently been involved in ERISA litigation matters involving retiree medical plans, obligations of an employer under a deferred compensation arrangement, claims for pension, health and welfare benefits, obligations of fiduciaries under a 401 (k) plan involving employer securities and what constitutes an ERISA plan.

Represented corporate defendant in direct and derivative litigation involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty arising out of contest for control.

We represent the full spectrum of organizations involved with ERISA disputes, including employers, other types of plan sponsors, insurers and alleged fiduciaries, in a large range of ERISA litigation matters.

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.