Litigation Examples

• $36,640,000 judgment for loan fraud entered on June 22, 2010 in the Spokane County Court system
• $14,887,525 dollar jury verdict entered August 25, 2008 in Spokane County Washington for a young woman permanently injured by an oral surgeon
• $4,000,000 jury verdict against NYSE company ABM Industries, Inc for discrimination against a single plaintiff
• $1,500,000 Securities Fraud jury verdict against a company president for securities fraud in favor of Dublin, Ireland investor Dermott Desmond, and his company International Investments Unlimited, PLLC
• SETTLEMENT EXAMPLES INCLUDE e.g.
• $1,500,000 employment discrimination settlement, California, disparate treatment, failure to promote
• $300,000 employment discrimination, wrongful termination
• $250,000 settlement, ladder accident with fractured shoulder
• $225,000 settlement employment discrimination, quid pro quo sexual harassment 
•  Bench Trials
• Successful defense to Hague Convention Petition for a mother of three children ordered to return to Athens Greece by a federal judge on a summary basis under the Hague Convention. Successful Ninth Circuit emergency appeal reversed that court, and remanded for a trial before a new federal judge, which resulted in a  federal decision of precedent on the convention in Tsarbopolous v Tsarbopolous, allowing the mother and children to remain in the US

Criminal felony

• Not guilty verdict for 3 strikes(life sentence mandatory) defendant charged with statutory rape, where defendant claimed to have no sexual contact at all with minor, but where DNA evidence tied a child allegedly born of the claimed sexual contact to the defendant with a 99.98 % probability. State v Kramer
• Not guilty verdict for black 3 strikes defendant (life sentence mandatory) on Armed Robbery charges, where defendant was allegedly followed by police officers to a hotel immediately after the robbery, observed to enter, then arrested in cab leaving the same hotel with the white co defendant, with all robbery funds found in the cab with both occupants, thereupon immediately identified by the robbery victim in the field following the arrest, and where the convicted codefendant testified against the defendant at trial. State v Lockridge.
• Dismissal of charges in pretrial evidentiary hearing for 51 year old woman falsely accused of molesting numerous children at a day care center in Washington.
• Dismissal of charges pretrial for Russian teenager charged with accomplice to murder in a gang related homicide, where teenager was alleged to have been the member carrying the weapon, and witnesses reported statements made by defendant linking him to the crime

 OTHER EXAMPLES OF LITIGATION RESULTS 

• Successful grand jury defense (decline) to DOJ investigation into British Petroleum environmental management in Anchorage, Alaska/Prudhoe Bay for North Slope manager, when environmental crimes were committed by local subcontractor. Included as part of a joint defense team of defense lawyers throughout the country and based in Seattle Washington.
• Successful obtaining of a federal district court order against the US government to immediately return wild animals seized by the government to an Animal park;
• Successful defense (dismissal) of Washington DC corporation (in Florida office) from employment discrimination claim.
• Successful defense (voluntary dismissal prior to summary judgment) of plaintiff’s claim against a wild animal park, Cat Tales, for a claimed mauling by a tiger at the park.
• Successful defense to US government subpoena of Schultz requiring her to testify against her own client on bail jumping charges by first refusing to testify, and then obtaining dismissal of the charges against defendant on pretrial motion, thereby nullifying the subpoena and ending the case.
• Successful defense (voluntary dismissal by plaintiff) of a high profile male client against VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) civil claims, where the defense included challenging the constitutionality of the VAWA federal statute under Commerce Clause limitations (motion denied in Eastern Washington, but granted by US Supreme Court on same grounds in parallel case from 3rd circuit). State claims then dismissed following successful effort at State Supreme Court level, where state court refused to certify similar cause of action.