Business
- Collision of CHP officer and tractor involving multiple liability issues along with severe injuries
- Dispute over rights and obligations among members of LLC formed to expand and globalize southern cooking restaurant of celebrity family
- Dispute over rights in film, involving issues of bridge loans, security interests, subordination agreements, alleged violation of Rules of Professional Conduct re conflict of interest between attorney and client and consequences thereof, alleged alleged tortious interference with contract, breach of fiduciary duty, etc.
- Trade secrets dispute involving customer lists, pricing calculators, etc between competing providers of semiautomated parking structures
- Dispute regarding the parties’ respective obligations for remediation of a superfund site.
- Alleged failure of an actor to pay a manager’s commission, involving claims of a breach of fiduciary duty and invasion of privacy.
- Claims of unfair competition, theft of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, and obligations of confidentiality by commercial production house against a former producer.
- Dispute over effectiveness of an agreement to purchase a commercial property.
- Claims of breach of contract and fraud arising from dispute between financier and producer/foreign distributor of independent film.
- Mediation following infringement and partial reversal by Court of Appeal on claims of breach of express and implied contract arising from alleged use of plaintiff’s ideas in defendant’s movie.
- Dispute over the use of a model’s image allegedly without permission in product promotion that went viral and generated billions of impressions.
- Dispute between a high-profile celebrity and his wife regarding promises allegedly made to her.
- Dispute among film studio, consignor auction house, and bidder of film memorabilia involving issues of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, indemnity, negligence, and violation of the statutory obligation of auctioneer.
- Dispute over software development project and respective performances by the parties thereunder.
- Dispute over proper tax reporting of buyout of a decedent’s partnership interest.
- Action involving competing providers of dental services, trademark cancellation, extortion, and repayment.
- Claim of trademark infringement and violation of right of publicity involving alleged use of MMA fighter’s image and trademarked name in connection with clothing manufacture and distribution, First Amendment and fair use defenses.
- Buyout of widow’s deceased husband’s interest in video editing companies based on differing assessments of companies’ fair market values under operating agreement and New York law.
- Complaint and cross-complaint alleging violations of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and similar state statute, malicious interference and conversion.
- Claim by group of content providers against technology developers and distributors of inducing and contributing to copyright infringements through advertising and distribution of technology that allows consumers to access copyrighted material without a license.