Southern California Business Lawyers
The following are some significant victories that attorneys at McQueen & Ashman LLP have achieved:
- In a fraudulent inducement case involving the sale of a business in Orange County, we convinced the jury that our client should be relieved of an obligation to pay $2 million for the business, and paid compensatory damages of $765,000 plus their attorneys' fees.
- In a case in which the seller of an airport made fraudulent representations about how much income could be generated by the property, we obtained a jury verdict that relieved the buyer of the obligation of paying anything more for the airport, plus compensatory damages of $1.25 million dollars.
- We obtained a $1.4 million settlement in a patent infringement case after prevailing before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
- We obtained a $1.1 million jury verdict against the City of Phoenix on a finding of arbitrary and capricious acts under the Federal Relocation Act.
- Our attorneys successfully obtained a writ from the California Court of Appeals reinstating a mechanic’s lien for $2.4 million.
- We settled a shareholders’ derivative suit brought against a corporation and its director in which plaintiffs sought $135 million. The final settlement was $125,000 in insurance proceeds, and we successfully obtained insurance coverage for the costs of defense as well (our client paid nothing).
- After defeating a motion for injunctive relief, our attorneys settled a false advertising/unfair competition case in federal court against a client, which had the number one infomercial in the United States at the time (netting over $100 million in sales). The suit sought $25 million, but the case was eventually settled after hard-fought litigation for $125,000.
- Our attorneys settled an employment case in which the plaintiff alleged that he was terminated in violation of public policy with 100 percent insurance dollars after getting plaintiff and his counsel monetarily sanctioned for discovery misconduct.
- We prevailed on a motion to strike a complaint and obtained the dismissal of the lawsuit under the anti-SLAPP statute (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) brought against homeowners by their homeowners’ association, plus received an award of $23,000 in attorneys’ fees for our clients.
- Our attorneys successfully recovered several internet domain names that infringed a car dealership’s trademarks after the domain names were registered by a cybersquatter who learned of the dealership’s plans to expand.
Please view our Clients page to see examples of the companies we have represented in the past.
For more information, or to schedule an appointment with one of our lawyers, contact James McQueen or Phillip Ashman at our Irvine, California, law office.
* Disclaimer: The results in these cases were dependent on the facts of each case, and results in any particular case will be dependent upon the specific facts of the case. This information should not be viewed as a guarantee that we can obtain specific results for you.
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