People

Results

Litigation

• Successfully defended against a $325,000 claim brought by a commercial landlord for water and sewer charges where water meter bypass valve to the tenant’s facility was open for over twelve years, while preserving the parties’ business relationship.
• Filed emergency lawsuit on behalf of Fortune 500 health care provider against landlord that refused to comply with snow and ice removal obligations where parties disagreed about their respective obligations regarding CAM charges and other operating expenses.
• Defeated District of Columbia Office of Attorney General’s claims seeking receivership and other injunctive relief against corporate client on summary judgment.
• Defended the ability of a private community comprised of 5,660 housing units, with approximately8,000 residents in twenty-nine common ownership communities to charge a two-percent purchase fee, a resale administrative fee, and a community facilities fee.
• Counsel clients to make strategic decisions about business disputes by evaluating likelihood of success and exposure to liability, assessing risks, estimating legal fees, and presenting options for resolution.
• First-chair trials, take depositions, manage expert witnesses, argue motions, manage discovery, negotiate settlements, draft agreements, and file appeals.
• Developed business and practiced law in the areas of civil litigation and domestic relations.
• Successfully resolved claims for trespass and quiet title on behalf of condominium association against builders of neighboring condominium.
• Drafted partnership agreement for parties co-owning real property as tenants in common.
• Collected on judgments, including by recordation in land records, obtaining judicial condemnation, and attaching funds held in escrow.

Domestic Relations (Litigation)

• Managed clients with mental illness, drug addiction, alcoholism, and facing financial ruin in highly emotional domestic relations cases where facts continuously developed and discovery was ongoing.
• Second-chaired trials, including a case pitting two fathers against each other in paternity proceeding; a case disputing a mother’s ability to relocate to Hawaii when sharing joint custody of child with a father stationed in D.C., and; a five-day trial to allocate separate and marital property.
• Negotiated and drafted property settlement agreements for high net-worth individuals.

Commercial Litigation

• Represented corporate clients in business disputes, including a government contractor that refurbishes federal buildings, an electric company that built power plant in Afghanistan under grant from U.S. Agency for International Development, and manufacturer of nutraceuticals.
• Drafted briefs, oppositions, and other court papers filed in federal and state courts, and arbitral tribunals.
• Co-founded Venable’s Electronic Discovery Task Force to educate and train firm’s attorneys to successfully preserve, request, produce, and process discovery in electronic formats.

Recognition

• The Best Lawyers in America, 2024

Publications