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Current• Via navigation of interviews, depositions, experts, and legal arguments, achieved superior settlements on behalf of residential mortgage-backed securities trusts against originators of subprime mortgages who breached their representations and warranties for those loans.• During the mediation of a corporate plaintiff client’s claim, proposed to the mediator an ultimatum process similar to the one that Harvard Negotiation Project Professor Roger Fisher used for the Camp David Accords between Sadat and Begin, which broke the stalemate and got the case settled far more favorably than would have otherwise been achieved.• For a prominent individual client, developed the strategy for proving that a major global bank breached its fiduciary duty by trading the assets of one of the client’s trusts according to the Bank’s self-interest.• Prevailed for the government of a South Asian country where a company in Asia was trying to take money that belonged to that country’s central bank and had subsequently passed through banks in the U.S.• By working with the athletes and experts, engaging in negotiations, and presenting arguments to court, successfully represented retired professional athletes in challenging a class action settlement, resulting in additional monetary gain for the athletes.• Successfully presented a Middle East country witness to defeat a federal lawsuit seeking to take possession of that country’s assets.• During a mediation for a corporate plaintiff client, achieved a beneficial settlement despite the mediator having sided with the opponent’s position by intuiting that the opponent’s lawyer wanted mediation to continue, which created an opportunity for a side talk with that attorney.• In representing a corporate plaintiff client, increased the settlement value of the case by deposing a corporate parent in a way that increased that entity’s concern that it could be held liable for its subsidiary’s misdeeds.
