Many statutes provide that if the defendant is successful in
obtaining early dismissal, an award of attorney's fees against the malicious prosecution plaintiff automatically follows.
Lightfoot routinely
obtains early dismissals or pre-trial summary judgments for healthcare providers.
Successfully
obtained an early dismissal in exchange for a nominal settlement payment.
Not exact matches
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.
It is very important to
obtain early legal advice about changes in employment arrangements, since some circumstances, on the careful and complete evaluation by a legal adviser, may be considered to comprise constructive
dismissal.
Mr. Feldman also has a strong record of defeating challenging class actions,
obtaining numerous
dismissals at the pleadings stage or
earlier.
Chris is an accomplished civil litigator, having prevailed in trials and appeals and
obtained many
early dismissals for his clients.
Weil
obtained the
early resolution of all 13 cases by negotiating with plaintiffs a stipulated
dismissal of all claims against SNI without prejudice, based in part upon factual representations by SNI regarding its knowledge of the fighter's injury.