A property and casualty insurance company, which sold major amounts of casualty insurance to a number of other companies in reliance on fraudulent reinsurance commitments issued by a foreign reinsurance company, was sued in Federal Court in California for fraud and violation of the RICO statutes.  The claim against our Client, an independent insurance broker (referred by his corporate counsel), was settled without any payment by the Client and a complete release from any liability on his part.

When a west-coast-based communications company with business operations throughout the U.S. and the Far East was suspected of possible insider trading by certain officers and directors of the company, the company’s Corporate Counsel hired the Firm to conduct an impartial investigation into the allegations against the company.  The Firm interviewed all the corporate directors and officers and reviewed all their stock trades and brokers’ records, and prepared a detailed report of its findings and conclusions, resulting in the dismissal of the accusation and avoiding an investigation by the SEC.

The Firm was retained on an emergency basis to represent several out-of-state corporations which were related to and named similarly to a Georgia corporation against which a substantial judgment had been obtained in Federal Court in an adjoining state.  Also, a garnishment action had been filed by the adverse party in Federal Court in Atlanta, but it had failed to properly identify in which state the judgment-debtor corporation was incorporated.  The Firm successfully convinced the Federal Court judge to dismiss the action, thereby releasing the corporate bank accounts of all the related and similarly-named corporations, allowing our Clients immediate access to funds in those accounts.

The Firm successfully defended a national publishing company in a New York lawsuit filed by a “big six” accounting firm which was trying to prevent the publisher from publishing certain confidential information regarding the accounting firm’s internal financial matters, including each individual partner’s profits.  After a New York trial judge had issued an ex-parte injunction prohibiting the Client’s publication of the information, attorneys for the Firm flew to New York and obtained an immediate reversal of the judge’s injunction by the New York Court of Appeals.  The Firm also succeeded in forcing the accounting firm to pay all its attorneys fees so that the Client incurred no costs in winning the case.  (The case was reported locally and nationally, by The New York Times and others, and of course, by the Client’s own publication.)