Commercial Litigation

The firm prosecutes and defends statutory and common law business claims in state and federal court as well as before arbitration tribunals.  These cases usually involve large sums of money and typically include one or more of the following claims: breach of contract, fraud, fraud in the inducement, breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, tortuous interference with business relationships and/or contracts, and trademark infringement.  The firm has been particularly successful at trial with these cases by utilizing state of the art trial presentation technology.  This technology is used in part to present time lines on a large screen, use excerpts of deposition testimony for impeachment of adverse witnesses and to further emphasize demonstrative exhibits. These visual aids assist the fact finder in understanding the evidence in order to reach a favorable decision.  

Examples of the firm's success in this regard came in the repeated defense of an international hotel corporation and in litigation on behalf of an officer of a foreign bank who was wrongfully terminated in violation of the Florida Statutes and her employment contract:

• Robobar – Notably defended (obtaining a defense verdict at trial) a multi-million dollar breach of contract and related civil tort claim brought by a manufacturer of in-room bars against international hotel corporation. (Eleventh Jud. Cir. Case No. 93-15059 CA 24)
  
  
• M Group – Successfully defended a multi-million dollar claim (obtained a decision for the defense with an award of attorney's fees and costs in arbitration) brought pursuant to St. Lucian law by an entity against an international hotel corporation involving a resort in the Caribbean.  (American Arb. Assoc. No. 50 T 168 00186 00)
  
  
• Desaad – Obtained multi-million dollar judgment following bench trial on wrongfully terminated former Vice-President of Venezuelan bank’s claims of statutory indemnification pursuant to the Florida Business Corporation Act and pursuant to her employment contract. (Eleventh Jud. Cir. Case No. 01-13868-CA-11)

Our firm established at the civil trial that the Plaintiff was entitled to indemnification pursuant to the Florida Business Corporation Act ('607.0850(3) and '607.0850(9)(a), Fla. Stat.) based upon her acquittal on criminal money laundering charges, the allegations of which arose out of her actions as a corporate officer of the bank. Moreover, Plaintiff also received an award for damages due to the bank’s breach of her employment contract. (Eleventh Jud. Cir. Case No. 01-13868-CA-11).

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