Representative matters include:

• Serving as lead counsel for several federal credit unions across the country in data security litigation against the largest provider of online banking and outsourced technology services to financial institutions.
• Representing a real estate investment trust in a data security incident, and negotiating confidential pre-litigation settlements with the responsible vendor and affected customers.
• Prosecuting trade secret misappropriation claims on behalf of a leading optics manufacturer and obtaining a highly favorable settlement requiring the adversary to cease business operations.
• Winning a favorable arbitration award as lead counsel in an equipment leasing dispute.
• Serving on the trial team for a prominent bank in aircraft finance and collection litigation, and obtaining a substantial settlement after presenting the client’s case-in-chief.
• Defending an accounting firm in a dispute with a competing firm arising from the alleged misappropriation of confidential information, defeating the adversary’s application for a preliminary injunction and winning a preliminary injunction in the client’s favor.
• Obtaining dismissal of a securities fraud class action brought against a professional services firm.
• Winning summary judgment for an international law firm in litigation against a former client and successfully arguing for dismissal of the adversary’s appeal.
• Arguing an appeal for an insurance company in a contested bankruptcy matter and obtaining affirmance of the court’s order.
• Defeating several Section 1782 applications seeking discovery from law and accounting firms.
• Winning disqualification of an adversary’s law firm after a two-day evidentiary hearing.
• Serving as national coordinating counsel in multistate litigation arising out of a corporate merger.
• Representing a nationally known entertainment company in matters related to Michael Jackson’s death.
• Advising clients on complex discovery issues, including discovery strategy, cost recovery, attorney-client privilege protection, evidence spoliation and discovery abuse.
• Providing pre-litigation advice to both domestic and international clients on transportation finance deals and other contracts governed by New York law.