Our Firm has represented businesses, professionals and individuals in a
variety of cases involving commercial relationships, including disputes over
employment relations, proprietary information, insurance coverage and bad
faith claims and corporate governance.
For example, we have advised an audit committee of a
publicly-traded company regarding fiduciary duty responsibilities and federal
securities requirements, as augmented by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,
governing such committees and participated in the audit committee's investigation
of a whistleblower complaint. Other examples of our business torts experience
include handling suits brought by brokerage houses against departing brokers
for violation of restrictive covenants; representing departing law firm
partners in disputes with their firms concerning unpaid compensation, the
payback of capital accounts, and the allocation of future receivables in
contingent fee litigation; representing directors in suits complaining
of breach of various fiduciary duties; defending a potential investor in
a suit complaining of the breach of a confidentiality agreement entered
into in connection with the investor's acquisition of information about
the company; and defending various hedge funds in trade libel, defamation
and securities litigation brought by companies whose stock the funds had
sold short.
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