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.
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 LEXIS 4633 (California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Four) [unpublished].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 LEXIS 2161 (California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division One) [unpublished].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
Seyedan v. Ebrahimi (Oct. 25, 2011, B214791) 2011 WL 5041955 [nonpublished opinion]
“GMSR’s client, Maryam Seyedan, invested some $400,000 in real property acquired by defendant Nassir Ebrahimi in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, a joint venture that was memorialized in a written agreement and amended orally over time. In 2006, after Ebrahimi rebuffed her demand for her
Court of Appeal affirms $9.3 million judgment for breach of contract/breach of fiduciary duty
Seyedan v. Ebrahimi (2011) 2011 Cal.App. Unpub. LEXIS 8092 (California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven) [unpublished]. GMSR’s client, Maryam Seyedan, invested some $400,000 in real property acquired by defendant Nassir Ebrahimi in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, a joint venture that was
Dairy Farmers of America v. Cacique, Inc. (July 20, 2011, B219840) 2011 WL 2936463 [nonpublished opinion]
Cacique, a cheese producer, abruptly terminated its contract to buy milk from Dairy Farmers of America without giving the requisite notice. DFA sued for breach of contract. Following a bench trial, the trial court awarded DFA $12.5 million in damages. Cacique appealed, arguing that the
Court affirms $12.5 million breach of contract judgment for GMSR’s client
Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. v. Cacique, Inc. (2011) 2011 Cal.App. Unpub. LEXIS 5421 (California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Seven) [unpublished]. Cacique, a cheese producer, abruptly terminated its contract to buy milk from Dairy Farmers of America without giving the requisite notice.
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