Businesses and entrepreneurs trust the attorneys at Brown Robert, LLP with their legal issues, whether involving litigation or not. The following is a sampling of the many cases handled by the attorneys at Brown Robert, LLP.
- Breach of Contract and Interference with Contract
- Class Actions
- Commercial Credit Litigation
- Copyright Infringement
- Corporate Law
- Creditors' Rights
- Employment and Discrimination Law
- Finance and Lender Liability Litigation
- Insurance Issues
- Intellectual Property Agreements and Licensing
- Landlord / Tenant Litigation
- Patent Infringement and Trade Secret Litigation
- Products Liability
- Real Estate and Title Litigation
- Securities
- Surety
- Trademark and Trade Dress
- Warranty Litigation
- Wrongful Death, Fire, Aviation, and Catastrophic Accident Litigation
Breach of Contract and Interference with Contract
- Represented interstate trucking company in Federal Court litigation involving dispute with former customer regarding unpaid freight tariffs and fraudulent inducement to perform shipping services.
- Represented design professional in litigation involving design services contract.
- Represented local manufacturing company in litigation against former executive relating to employment and brokerage contract.
- Represented property management company in claim for interference with contractual relationship.
- Represented national hotel in defending breach of contract claim involving vendor.
- Represented international distributors in various tortious interference, supply contract and territorial sales disputes.
Class Actions
- Represented defendant in defense of putative class action regarding the sale of insurance products.
- Represented automotive manufacturer in class action relating to design and advertising issues.
Commercial Credit Litigation
- Represented major issuer of commercial credit cards in defending litigations involving debt collection practices.
- Represented bank in claim for improper financing practices.
Copyright Infringement
- Represented software designer in action to stop use of copyrighted programs.
- Represented photographer in multiple copyright litigations against manufacturers and distributors of products containing infringing photographs.
- Represented art dealer in claims involving reproduction and embellishment of fine art paintings and lithographs.
- Represented electronic news publisher in copyright infringement litigation involving competing electronic service.
- Represented manufacturer/creator of unique ornamental sculptures incorporated into outdoor lawn decoration in multiple copyright infringement actions against various competitors and national retail chains who sold substantially similar products.
- Represented web site owner in claims involving copying of web site.
- Represented publishing company in claims involving copyright ownership.
- Represented art gallery in connection with alleged copyright violations for sale and marketing of fine art paintings.
- Represented copyright holder in dispute regarding publication of magazine.
- Represented copyright holder in action involving copying of visual arts work and importation of infringing imitations from overseas.
- Represented copyright holder in an action involving copyrighted computer source code for electronic data retrieval and analysis functions.
- Represented manufacturer of limited edition art prints in dispute involving alleged copyrights.
Corporate Law
- Represented corporations on a variety of corporate organization and operation issues.
- Represented corporations in preparation of articles of incorporation, by-laws, and board minutes for use in establishing new businesses or reorganizing existing businesses.
Represented employers and firearms related businesses in firearms regulations and policy disputes. - Represented securities broker-dealer in lease negotiations for United States operations.
- Represented employers in OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance matters.
- Represented corporations in stock and asset sales.
- Represented corporations in buy/sell agreements.
Creditors Rights
- Represented creditors in asserting secured and unsecured Bankruptcy claims.
- Represented parties in various Bankruptcy adversary proceedings.
Employment and Discrimination Law
- Represented officers and directors of company in defending breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Represented employers in defending wrongful termination claims.
- Represented employers in defending employment retaliation claims.
- Represented employers in defending Fair Labor Standards Act claims.
- Represented real estate brokerage in Fair Housing Act Litigation.
- Represented employers in establishment of workplace procedures, employment manuals, and employee and independent contractor non-disclosure and non-competition agreements.
Finance and Lender Liability Litigation
- Represented bank in foreclosure of commercial property involving nonpayment and multiple covenant breaches.
- Represented financing company in defending various Federal statutory claims.
- Represented real estate developer in connection with dispute involving failure to meet lending criteria.
- Represented real estate developer in connection with dispute involving pretextual covenant defaults.
- Represented real estate developers in defense of commercial foreclosure proceedings.
- Represented guarantors in various workout and contingent liability litigation.
Insurance Issues
- Represented family of child diagnosed with autism in action against national insurance company based on insurance company’s failure to reimburse therapy expenses.
- Represented manufacturing company in claim by workers’ compensation insurer for additional earned premiums.
- Represented employer in action involving classifications of employees for insurance purposes.
- Represented insurance agency in claims involving suitability of long term life insurance products.
Intellectual Property Agreements and Licensing
- Represented and advised owners of intellectual property rights regarding licensing of intellectual property including, patents, copyrights and trademarks, and prepared related documentation.
- Represented clients regarding confidentiality and non-disclosure issues and prepared related documentation memorializing agreements on such topics.
- Represented company in negotiation of colocation licensing agreement for off-site servers and data storage.
- Represented musical publishers, producers, and artists in negotiation of recording, work for hire, and performance contracts.
Landlord / Tenant Litigation
- Represented landlord in eviction proceeding of state sponsored charter school for life safety and building code violations.
- Represented landlord in commercial eviction proceeding involving multiple sub-lessees on premises after master tenant default.
- Represented landlord in eviction proceeding involving technical college’s non-payment of increased rent.
- Represented landlords in multiple proceedings involving retail and manufacturing tenant evictions.
- Represented tenant in eviction proceeding involving noise and security related nuisance claims.
- Represented tenant in eviction proceeding involving non-payment of CAM assessments and rent increases.
- Represented landlord in multiple residential evictions to clear property of holdover tenants for development purposes.
- Represented tenant in eviction proceeding involving anchor tenant.
- Represented tenant in eviction proceeding relating to delayed build-out of leased space.
- Represented landlord in eviction proceeding involving failure of build-out of premises.
- Represented commercial tenants and landlords in negotiation of leases for shopping malls, retail strip centers, storefront warehouses, agricultural premises and restaurants.
Patent Infringement and Trade Secret Litigation
- Represented technology company patent holder in infringement actions against cellular telephone service providers regarding video messaging technology and radio transmission technology.
- Represented creator of proprietary medical treatment system in claims against former licensee for continued use of materials after termination of license.
- Represented clients at multiple Markman hearings addressing claim interpretation issues.
- Represented individual inventor/patent holder of automatic plant watering system in patent infringement action against distributor of infringing product.
- Represented manufacturing company patent holder in patent infringement action involving ornamental consumer product.
- Represented manufacturing company patent holder in patent infringement action relating to precision measuring machines.
- Represented appellant before Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in claim regarding false marking of patent numbers on product.
- Represented individual inventor patent holder before District Court and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in patent infringement litigation against manufacturer of caulking tubes.
- Represented manufacturing company in defense of design patent claims involving architectural product.
- Represented individual inventor patent holder in infringement action against manufacturing company using patented production machine.
- Represented manufacturing company in defense of patent infringement claims involving computer hardware and electronic control technology.
- Represented manufacturing company in defense of patent infringement claims involving video camera technology.
Products Liability
- Represented manufacturer of kitchen utensil in defense of action commenced by individual who claimed injury by product.
- Represented clients in defense of numerous product liability actions against manufacturers and sellers relating to airframe and aircraft enginepower plant design, manufacture, and installation.
- Represented manufacturers and employers in products liability claims arising from industrial accidents.
- Represented distributor in action claiming cosmetic product caused skin disorder.
Real Estate and Title Litigation
- Represented petitioner in New York appeal of administrative ruling preventing reasonable land use.
- Represented plaintiff in action to cancel real estate contract relating to development property in New York State.
- Represented party in proceedings to determine proper title to real estate.
Securities
- Represented broker-dealer in defense of litigation involving alleged fraud in connection with sale of securities.
- Represented former executive and founder of a pharmaceutical manufacturer in prosecution of a securities and business fraud claim and defense of privatizations of a public company.
- Represented issuer of variable annuity in Arbitration involving allegations of improper calculation of death benefit.
- Represented manufacturing company in dispute regarding leveraged buyout.
- Represented broker-dealers in claims involving employees.
Surety
- Represented surety company in dispute regarding public construction contract dispute in New York.
- Represented beneficiaries in actions to enforce payment of completion and construction bonds.
Trademark and Trade Dress
- Represented senior user of mark in dietary supplement business against multiple junior users whose use of mark caused confusion in marketplace.
- Represented real estate company in trademark infringement claim asserted against junior user of trademark.
- Represented consumer products manufacturer in multiple actions involving trade dress claims on knockoff products.
- Represented importer in trade dress and trademark claims involving imported fashion accessories.
- Represented manufacturing company in action involving claimed trade mark infringement involving commercial security product.
Warranty Litigation
- Represented manufacturer of flooring products in breach of warranty dispute.
- Represented manufacturers in defense of engine and automotive warranty claims.
- Represented electrical contractor in defense of unsuitable product application.
Wrongful Death, Fire, Aviation and Catastrophic Accident Litigation
- Represented lessor of industrial equipment in defense of action in which worker was killed by a forklift.
- Represented manufacturing company in defense of claim for catastrophic injury sustained by worker in facility.
- Represented prior owner of used manufacturing equipment in defense of products liability claim resulting from disfiguring injury.
- Represented railroad in action involving wildfire.
- Represented agricultural landowner involving multiple wrongful deaths due to claimed hazard on property.
- Represented defendants in cases involving aircraft accidents caused by pilot error.
- Represented owners of commercial vehicles in automotive and truck collisions.
- Represented railroad in personal injury claims arising under FELA.
- Represented construction equipment owner in accident involving collapse of equipment and catastrophic destruction of property.
- Represented estate of deceased pilot in claims against aircraft maintenance company.
