Litigation Examples

• $36,640,000  Loan fraud/ retaurant and development financing, bench judgment
• $19,480,000  Defamation and race discrimination, jury verdict 
• $14,887,525  Oral surgery negligence, unnecessary and overly                                                     aggressive surgery, jury verdict
• $10,500,307  Excessive Force/ Wrongful Death by Excessive Force and Assault,                               settlement
• $  4,000,000   Discrimination/ Glass ceiling gender discrimination, NYSE                                        company, jury verdict
• $ 1,900,000    Discrimination- Private Country Club discrimination, jury verdict. 
• $ 2,000,000    Medical Negligence/ Wrongful Death/Suicide, settlement
• $ 2,000,000    Medical Negligence/ Wrongful Death / Surgical error, settlement
• $ 1,500,000    Securities Fraud technology start-up, jury verdict 
• $ 1,900,000    SOX Whistleblower, bench trial award ALJ 
• $ 1,500,000    Defamation, corporate, settlement 
• $ 1,500,000    Racial Employment Discrimination, disparate treatment, settlement
• $ 1,200,000    Age Discrimination, settlement 
• $ 1,200,000    Medical Negligence/Failure to Diagnose Cancer-Bench trial verdict
• $ 1,200,000    Medical negligence/ Medican error, settlement
• $ 1,000,000    Medical Negligence, Plastic Surgery disfiguration, settlement limits
• $  879,000      Wrongful Termination in violation of public policy, jury verdict
• $  875,000      Employment Discrimination/Sexual Harassment settlement 
• $  700,000      Age discrimination and wrongful termination,settlement
• $  640,000      SOX Whistleblower complaint, settlement 
• $  500,000      Employment Discrimination/ managerial harassment, settlement
• $  500,000      Invasion of Privacy -settlement
• $  375,000      Wrongful Death boating accident, settlement capped by Idaho law
• $  300,000      Medical Negligence/ Wrongful Death respiratory failure, settlement 
• $  300,000     Employment Discrimination-sex,  settlement
• $  250,000     Employment Discrimination- age, settlement
• $  250,000     Employment Discrimination- sex, settlement
• $  195,000     HIPAA Medical Privacy Violation, settlement 
• $  167,500     Employment Discrimination- sex, settlement

Bench Trials

• Hague Convention: Successful challenge to Hague Convention Petition from Athens Greece, resulitng in mother and three children allowed to remain in US

Criminal felony litigation

• 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.

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