Client Successes Archive

We drew upon our water and public policy resources to prevent potable water from being regulated as a "waste" or "pollutant."

We helped a village near Chicago secure federal funds to promote inclusion of an environmental cap in an expansion project of a highway that runs through the middle of their town. 

With our help, a major healthcare provider expanded its market and served a local community by purchasing a hospital from a bankrupt public agency.

By helping a non-profit health system license its promising research, we helped further the search for a cure for certain cancers.

We brought big-firm style litigation infrastructure to support a small firm in a big breach of contract case.

We helped a manufacturing company lower its municipal utility rates by navigating the local government landscape.

We disarmed a potentially large class action and, on the eve of a motion to dismiss, secured a small, confidential settlement.

We used sophisticated courtroom strategy to champion the truth throughout a long jury trial and ensure our clients were able to reclaim over $1.3 million and a company that had been stolen from them.

We made sure an insurance agent's error did not cost a terminally ill man his valuable life insurance policy.

We helped a public agency protect its partially built ferries even while the legislature shut it down and its contractor went bankrupt.

By advancing case law regarding new technologies, we ensured Hyundai had the insurance coverage it needed to pursue litigation.

A strategic licensing agreement for a drug that treats a rare childhood disease helped a non-profit research institute obtain a reliable revenue stream.

We uncovered an insurer's deceit and secured a favorable settlement in time to prevent even bigger problems.

We helped TxDOT create the first toll concession agreement in Texas for a much needed 41-mile toll road.

We helped keep hospitals and medical staffs across the country working cooperatively by negotiating reasonable rules.

We drew on Endangered Species Act and Water law expertise to preserve discharges of tertiary treated flow critical to the survival of endangered fish.

Our California trial experience helped win a complete defense verdict and attorneys' fees for a technology client on securities fraud claims of more than $12 million.

We guided FDOT through its $1.8 billion I-595 Corridor Improvement Project, the first project in the U.S. transportation sector to use an availability payment compensation structure.  With major construction completed in approximately four years, the reversible express lanes of I-595 opened for traffic on March 26, 2014.