– Dispute Resolution Experience
Practice Areas
Served as a consultant, facilitator, mediator, and arbitrator (panelist and sole arbitrator) under various institutional rules and in ad hoc proceedings.
Commercial Contracts:
Issues run the gamut and include: failure to pay for goods or services, deficient services, deficient goods, delay, scope, increased costs, authority to modify, intellectual property, breach of warranty, misrepresentations and fraud.
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Intellectual Property:
Issues have included: R&D, license issues, exploitation of IP, copyright, trademarks, patents, trade secrets.
Technology:
Issues have included: cryptocurrency, blockchain, website requirement failure, duty of care, security, theft.
Financial Matters:
Issues have included: bank/customer, payment default, securities, hedge fund, private equity, broker commissions, currency/option, fraud, misrepresentation, negligence
Environmental & Cultural Heritage
Issues have included: environmental assessments, infrastructure disputes, flood plains, migratory bird paths, breading grounds of endangered species, toxic materials, National Historic Preservation Act, Native American Graves Repatriation Act, Antiquities Act, Archaeological Resources Protection Act.
Securities:
Issues have included: broker/customer claims, fraud, 10b-5, failure to deliver, fraud, negligence
Entertainment & Sports:
Issues have included: marketing and contracting disputes, right of publicity and privacy, fee agreements, breaches of contract
International Law:
Issues have included: inter-governmental disputes, private disputes, immigration, security, intellectual property, MOA, treaties
National Security & Aerospace:
Issues have included: breach of security requirements, UCMJ, breach of inter-government agreements, government acquisitions
Consumer:
Issues have included debt collection issues; transportation; banking, securities, and financial
services disputes including digital assets; insurance
disputes; privacy issues; tort claims; consumer
protection statutes, specialized industry disputes; and
breach of consumer contract. Have taught, managed, and/or adjudicated relief and procedural disputes, such as punitive damages, attorneys’ fee and costs, injunctive relief, choice of law, venue, controlling contract, anti-SLAPP statute; res judicata, collateral estoppel, SOL and tolling, limitations on liability, conditions precedent, preemption, and more.
