Experience

• Obtained multi-million dollar award for raiding after five-week FINRA arbitration in Washington D.C., including the maximum punitive damages allowed under Virginia law.
• In a landmark three week class action jury trial–in which the plaintiffs sought over $2 billion dollars–Art and the team obtained a complete defense verdict for their client, enabling related class actions to be resolved on favorable terms.
• Following a hard-fought discovery phase, including more than a dozen depositions, Art prevailed at summary judgment, obtaining a complete dismissal of all claims in a $20 million minority shareholder buyout claim.
• Art successfully enforced an oral promise to share the profits of a new closely-held business. Art defeated the defendants’ attempt to dismiss the claims at summary judgment, and got defendants’ counterclaims dismissed. After a week-long trial, the jury awarded Art’s client all of his requested damages. The jury’s verdict in favor of Art’s client was affirmed on appeal.
• Moving swiftly, just days after being retained by the receiver on two large commercial office buildings, Art obtained an ex parte temporary restraining order removing the buildings’ management company, enjoining access to the building, and freezing their bank accounts. Art obtained a judgment against the management company and its principals for $1.45 million and pursued a number of other lawsuits arising from the management company’s fraudulent transfer of cellular rights to the buildings and alleged tax appeals, all of which resulted in additional payments owed to the buildings’ owner.
• Art successfully defended against the claims of a would-be purchaser who was seeking to force a sale of the company. Following a weeklong arbitration, the arbitrator agreed with Art and dismissed all claims.
• In another recent arbitration proceeding arising from the sale of a business, Art successfully defended against a multi-million dollar claim of fraudulent inducement and misrepresentations in connection with the sale. After a single day of the presentation of evidence, the arbitrator agreed with Art’s client and rejected all of the claims made by the plaintiff.
• Art successfully pursued a major public institution in Minnesota after it deliberately violated a multi-million dollar contract with Art’s client. After more than two years of litigation culminating in a two week jury trial, Art successfully convinced the jury that the public institution had violated the agreement.
• Art represented a family-owned business against a Minnesota-based Fortune 100 company in a breach of contract case involving a number of complex, interrelated documents. Prior to Art’s involvement, the defendant offered a settlement less than the cost of defense. Art defeated the defendant’s motion for summary judgment and leveraged that victory into a multi-million-dollar payout for his client.
• Art represented a high net worth former employee of one of Minnesota’s largest employers after the former employer alleged Art’s client had breached his duty of loyalty through wrongful conduct in a variety of international transactions and sought $10 million. Art devised and pursued a successful strategy to defend against that full-funded adversary. At the end of the case, Art’s client walked away paying nothing.
• Art was asked to take over the lead for the plaintiff in a case involving multiple claims of breach of contract, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. The defendant refused to negotiate and offered nothing to Art’s client. Art dove into the facts and further developed the record to support his client’s claims. After four days of jury trial and at the conclusion of Art’s case in chief, the defendant quickly agreed to settle with Art’s client for cash and materials valued in the millions of dollars.
• Art was asked to take over another case in Minnesota from a nationally ranked law firm representing clients facing millions of dollars of liability arising out of claims of alleged breaches of fiduciary duty. Over the course of two years, Art turned the case around completely. All of the claims against Art’s clients were dismissed, the opponents were ordered to pay Art’s attorneys’ fees, and the court entered an Order allowing Art’s clients to pursue punitive damages. The case ultimately settled with a payment to Art’s clients.
• Art represented an individual accused by their former employer of trade secrets theft. After demanding millions from Art's client at the start of the lawsuit, the plaintiff was forced to walk away for nothing. Since the successful resolution of this case, Art's client has grown exponentially.
• Art has successfully represented a national Minnesota-based company to enforce their rights as shareholder and owner in numerous joint ventures. Art has quickly prepared for and obtained relief for his clients following “evidentiary hearings” at the outset of the case and has successfully enforced the restrictive covenants in the operating agreements, obtained injunctive relief and secured millions in recoveries on behalf of this client.