• First-chair trial experience.• Representation of individuals and companies in partnership dissolutions.• Representation of landowners in eminent domain actions. 
• Negotiating, analyzing, and drafting supply; non-disclosure; confidentiality; non-compete; strategic alliance; sales representative; and joint venture agreements.• Negotiating, analyzing, and drafting company agreement; member interest agreements; partnership and LLC dissolution paperwork.• Representing civil rights plaintiffs in federal actions throughout the United States, with the successful resolution of civil rights cases.• Providing employment advice for small to medium sized businesses.• Discreet and successful resolution of white collar and criminal defense matters, including trial if necessary.• General counsel for multiple small businesses.

• Developed and co-taught Trial Process (day and evening classes).• Developed and co-taught Trial Advocacy (day and evening classes).

Focused on the needs of small to medium-sized businesses, individuals, and corporations needing corporate and litigation advice.Experience includes:• First-chair trial experience. • Counsel for a government-sponsored corporation founded to expand the secondary mortgage market by securitizing mortgages in the form of mortgage-backed securities. Overseeing and managing local counsel in all aspects of litigation, from pre-trial to appeals.• General Counsel for the largest manufacturer and seller of recreational trampolines in the world.• General Counsel for a company distributing the first truly recyclable polyurethane product available in the international market.• Overseeing and managing state-wide interpleader actions for national title companies. • Negotiating, analyzing, and drafting supply; non-disclosure; confidentiality; non-compete; strategic alliance; sales representative; and joint venture agreements.• Establishing and drafting company policies and procedures for overseas expansion of a US based company.• General Counsel for multiple small businesses. • Analyzing and addressing issues for product development and company expansion-- transactional and litigation matters.• Effective and economical defense and resolution of a multi-state covenant not to compete litigation. • Discreet and successful resolution of white collar and criminal defense matters, including trial if necessary. • Representation of landowners in eminent domain actions. • Strategically positioned a multimillion-dollar company for profitable entry into the print-media market by structuring, drafting, and negotiating supply; non-disclosure; confidentiality; non-compete; strategic alliance; and joint venture agreements.• Complete oversight of all aspects of litigation, including pre-trial counseling, strategy, procedure, discovery, mediation/settlement, and trial.

Extensive, broad-based commercial litigation experience (including products liability, complex commercial litigation, and business and contract disputes), with a focus on real estate litigation (breach of contract, breach of lease, guarantor litigation, CMBS litigation, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and title disputes). Experience includes: • Seven first-chair jury trials and eleven plus bench trials.• Fifty plus depositions. • Thirty plus hearings.• Twenty-five plus special commissioners’ hearings.• Drafted, prepared, and argued applications for temporary restraining orders. • Experience managing associates, paralegals, and secretaries on trial teams.• Drafted motions in state and federal court during all phases of litigation including motions for summary judgment, motions to dismiss, motions to compel discovery, motions in limine, motions to strike, motions for entry of judgment, motions to seal, motions for post-trial relief, and appellate briefs (mandamus).