HIGH STAKES DISPUTES DEMAND MORE THAN PROCESS. OBJECTIVES MATTER. RESULTS MATTER. YOU NEED COUNSEL WHO’S PLAYED AT THIS LEVEL BEFORE – AND KNOWS HOW TO WIN.

It’s your business, often your livelihood. Legal problems can be overwhelming. Lawyers are expensive, the process can seem onerous, you may feel you are just another billing file.

I approach things differently. I take the time to understand your business, offer practical options, and consider alternatives to hourly billing when appropriate. The goal is simple: Make the law work for you.

With years of general counsel experience handling transactions and litigation for financial institutions, I bridge the gap between legal strategy and business reality. While I have extensive transactional experience, my practice is focused on high-stakes disputes where a lawsuit, regulatory issue, or overreaching counter party threatens capital, control, or continuity. In those moments, outcomes, not process, matter. Below is a sampling of successfully using early leverage, creative strategy, and efficient resolution.

CONTRACT, DEAL & COMMERCIAL DISPUTES

Defeating Claw-Back Claim by Powerful Counterparties

Objective: Stop recovery effort by CEO of a global financial institution - NASDQ

Exposure: $70,000 plus reputational risk

Approach: Used financial sophistication against the claimant during trial testimony.

Result: Judgment entered denying all recovery; testimony later described by the Times of London as “humiliating” and “embarrassing.”

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Enforcing Payment Rights in Business Sale

Objective: Recover full purchase price after payment default

Exposure: $300,000

Approach: Drafted and enforced acceleration provisions; streamlined dispute into binding AAA arbitration.

Result: Three-member panel awarded full damages and attorneys’ fees; award upheld.

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Recovering Seven-Figure Real Estate Deposits

Objective: Obtain return of wrongfully withheld deposit

Exposure: $1.63 million

Approach: Moved aggressively for early summary judgment while asserting fraud and aiding-and-abetting claims to maximize leverage.

Result: Full deposit returned; attorneys’ fees recovered.

BANKING, LENDING & INSURANCE DISPUTES

Stopping Lender Overreach Against Owners and Families

Objective: Eliminate improper personal liability imposed by lender

Exposure: $185,000

Approach: Identified violation of federal banking regulations prohibiting mandatory spousal guarantees.

Result: Default judgment vacated, claims against spouse dismissed, and favorable workout achieved.

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Preserving Insurance Coverage for Business Losses

Objective: Compel insurer to defend and indemnify bank

Exposure: Multimillion-dollar liability

Approach: Reframed insurer’s exclusion argument by separating maternal medical care from infant injury.

Result: Summary judgment for the insured and recovery of all attorneys’ fees.

REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT DISPUTES

Resolving Construction Impasses Without Litigation

Objective: Complete condominium construction blocked by adjoining owner

Exposure: Multimillion-dollar unit sales

Approach: Applied New Jersey air-rights law to complete exterior work using suspended scaffolding without trespass.

Result: Construction completed in days; closings proceeded; lawsuit avoided.

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Enforcing Property and Infrastructure Rights

Objective: Recover costs after neighboring developer severed sewer connection

Exposure: $100,000

Approach: Conducted historical title analysis tying century-old sewer rights to controlling case law.

Result: Full recovery of costs to install new sewer connection.

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Defeating High-Exposure Tenant Damage Claims

Objective: Dismiss tenant lawsuit alleging landlord repair obligations

Exposure: $7 million

Approach: Filed early dispositive motion based solely on lease terms before costly discovery.

Result: Case dismissed; landlord preserved right to seek attorneys’ fees.

EMPLOYMENT & WORKFORCE-RELEATED DISPUTES

Resolving Discrimination Claims Efficiently

Objective: Avoid liability following termination decision

Exposure: $300,000

Approach: Forced early mediation and demonstrated claim was legally and factually unsound.

Result: Matter resolved for negligible cost.

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Protecting Business Expansion and Key Hires

Objective: Defeat injunction blocking competitive hiring

Exposure: Business interruption and damages

Approach: Exposed lack of protectable trade secrets and leveraged adversary misconduct.

Result: Case dismissed; employee retained; business expansion continued.

IF YOU ARE A BUSINESS OWNER FACING A DISPUTE, A STALLED TRANSACTION, OR A COUNTERPARTY THAT HAS OVERREACHED, AN EARLY CONVERSATION CAN MAKE A DECISIVE DIFFERENCE. I WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS YOUR CIRCUMSTANCE, EXPLORE OPTIONS, AND DETERMINE WHAT IS THE PRACTICAL PATH FORWARD. I’VE DONE MY PART, NOW IT’S UP TO YOU TO BRING IT HOME. CLICK ON THE HOME PLATE BELOW TO CONTACT ME.