Business litigants turn to GMSR when the stakes are high, whether it’s to preserve an important victory or to challenge an adverse decision. GMSR has substantive experience in a range of fields including antitrust, bankruptcy, banking/lender liability, contract interpretation and enforcement, torts, trade secrets misappropriation, and unfair competition. That experience, combined with GMSR’s outside-the-box thinking and persuasive writing, ensures appellate briefs that present its clients’ case in the strongest light possible. Savvy clients also regularly bring GMSR in long before the appellate stage to draft dispositive motions, review proposed jury instructions and verdict forms, and advise on strategy with an eye toward appeal.
Crosby v. HLC Properties, Ltd. (2014) 223 Cal.App.4th 597
GMSR wins publicity rights dispute for Bing Crosby’s heirs; Court of Appeal’s decision helps delineate publicity rights of celebrities and their heirs, brings stability to settlements by reaffirming the breadth of releases of claims
In re Meruelo Maddux Properties, Inc. (C.D.Cal. Aug. 7, 2013) 2013 WL 4045922 [bankruptcy appeal]
GMSR successfully defends bankruptcy court order confirming Chapter 11 reorganization plan on appeal
GMSR successfully defends bankruptcy court order confirming Chapter 11 reorganization plan on appeal
In re Meruelo Maddux Properties, Inc. (2013) 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 112105 (United States District Court for the Central District of California). After the U.S. Bankruptcy Court confirmed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan that required a majority block of the debtor-in-possession’s insider equity shareholders to
Corona Summit LLC v. SPUSO5 Corona Summit, L.P. (June 27, 2013, B226933) 2013 WL 3286181
GMSR obtains $66 million reduction of judgment and reversal of alter ego determination
GMSR obtains $66 million reduction of judgment and reversal of alter ego determination
Corona Summit v. SPUS05 Corona Summit (2013) 2013 Cal.App. Unpub. LEXIS 4633 (California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Four) [unpublished]. GMSR’s client, CB Richard Ellis Strategic Partners US Opportunity 5 LP (Fund V), had formed a single purpose entity (SPE) to purchase office
Bank of America, N.A. v. Lahave (June 26, 2013, B240826) 2013 WL 3213731 [nonpublished opinion]
GMSR obtains reversal in Court of Appeal in commercial guaranty action
GMSR obtains reversal in Court of Appeal in commercial guaranty action
Bank of America, N.A. v. Danny Lahave, et al. (2013) 2013 Cal.App. Unpub. LEXIS 2161 (California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division One) [unpublished]. A commercial mortgage loan guaranty purported to waive any defense of illegality that the borrower might have against collection. A
Celador Internat., Inc. v. American Broadcasting Cos., Inc. (9th Cir. 2012) 499 Fed.Appx. 721
Television show creator found contractually entitled to 50% of network’s profits; substantial evidence supported jury’s $269 million damages award
Language Line Services, Inc. v. Language Services Associates, Inc. (9th Cir. Sept. 24, 2012, No. 11-17757) 2012 WL 4337722 [mem. disp.]
GMSR’s client, Language Line Services, is the country’s largest provider of interpretation services. One of its employees left to join a competitor, taking with him highly confidential customer information. Language Line obtained a broad injunction barring any use of the stolen information and requiring a
Ninth Circuit affirms denial of injunction modification in trade secrets cases
Language Line Services, Inc. v. Language Services Associates, et al. (2012) 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 20008 (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit) [unpublished]. GMSR’s client, Language Line Services, is the country’s largest provider of interpretation services. One of its employees left to
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