Employment Litigation

• Represented numerous companies in collective action lawsuits brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
• Represented automative dealership in a benefits dispute; successfully obtained dismissal with prejudice in favor of the company.
• Represented pharmaceutical company in a retaliation suit brought by former executive; successfully obtained summary judgment in favor of the company.
• Represented agricultural equipment retailer in a discrimination and breach of contract suit brought by a former employee; successfully obtained summary disposition on all claims in favor of the company.
• Represented public university in a disability discrimination suit brought by a former student; successfully obtained dismissal in favor of the university.
• Represented energy company in an ERISA benefits suit; successfully obtained dismissal of the claims against the company.
• Represented mortgage lender in discrimination suits brought by former employees; successfully obtained multiple orders to dismiss and compel arbitration.
• Represented manufacturing company in wage and hour dispute; successfully obtained voluntary dismissal on behalf of the company.

Commercial Litigation

• Represented pool services company in a breach of contract dispute; prevailed, after a week-long jury trial, in defeating all claims brought against company and successfully obtained a half-million-dollar judgment in favor of company.
• Represented consumer products company in a breach of contract suit; successfully obtained an order compelling arbitration and dismissing the federal suit; successfully defended that order on appeal in the Fourth Circuit.
• Represented commercial business in Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit; successfully obtained voluntary dismissal on behalf of the company.

Appellate Litigation

• Lead counsel in a civil rights dispute; argued the case before the Tenth Circuit and obtained reversal of a key lower court ruling in a published Tenth Circuit decision. Hooks v. Atoki, 983 F.3d 1193 (10th Cir. 2020).
• Co-counsel on multiple employment, property, and other commercial appeals.
• Co-counsel for multiple amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court.