Business Litigation

Both recovered tens of millions of dollars for clients and defeated claims for tens of millions of dollars for other clients.

Prevailed in multi-week jury trial representing a franchise operator being sued by a large international corporation.  We were able convince the jury that the corporation’s true motive for the suit was to trump up technical arguments for wrongful termination of the franchise agreement so that the corporation could take over the profits that the franchise operator had developed.  In the end, the jury completely rejected the corporation’s claim and awarded our client all of its almost $600,000 in attorneys’ fees.

In a business case in which a former client asserted defamation, Jacqueline achieved a positive defense result of a dismissal from all claims brought by a pro-per plaintiff for defamation and other intentional tort claims following highly contested motion practice. Jacqueline also recovered costs for her client in light of the baseless claims and motion practice required to obtain a dismissal.