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.
Summit Industries of Nevada, Inc. v. Los Angeles Community Development Bank (Feb. 10, 2003, B142310) 2003 WL 264478 [nonpublished opinion]
Scope of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing in lender liability case
Bengard v. Berwind Industries (2003, G029032)
Parol evidence rule and fraud exception in contracts in merger-acquisition transaction (settled prior to decision)
Cable & Computer Technology, Inc. v. Lockheed Sanders, Inc. (9th Cir. 2002) 52 Fed.Appx. 20
Damages issues related to defense contract bidding
Imperial Bank v. 409 Olympic Building Partnership (2002) 2002 Cal.App. Unpub. LEXIS 8271
Whether award for breach of alleged oral contract was a disguised deficiency judgment
Tradewinds Escrow, Inc. v. Truck Ins. Exchange (2002) 97 Cal.App.4th 704
Escrow agent’s commercial general liability policy covered only accidental occurrences, not professional negligence
Desert Healthcare Dist. v. PacifiCare FHP, Inc. (2001) 94 Cal.App.4th 781
Responsibility of healthcare services plan for payment of claims to third-party physicians under the Knox-Keene Act
Office Electronics, Inc. v. Deliberto (2001) 2001 WL 1397274
Post-termination employee non-compete agreement
Yahalom v. Panish (2001, B137071)
Contract interpretation; estoppel
Dickson v. Brobeck Phleger & Harrison (2000) 83 Cal.App.4th 436
Partnership dissolution; accounting for unfinished business””
GAB Business Services, Inc. v. Lindsey & Newsom Claims Services, Inc. (2000) 83 Cal.App.4th 409
Unfair competition suit against a former employee-officer for breach of fiduciary duties
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