Major Victories

Our Successes in Litigation Matters

Medical Malpractice

• $6.5 million: failure to diagnose eye-related cancer in patient (Philadelphia County)
• $4 million: failure to prevent hypoxic brain injury to baby (Philadelphia County)
• $4 million: failure to diagnose Giant Cell Arteritis resulting in bilateral blindness (Allegheny County)
• $3.5 million: failure to diagnose bowel ischemia leading to multiple surgeries (Middle District of PA)
• $3.5 million: botched fenestration procedure (Montour County)
• $3 million settlement for failure to diagnose cervical cancer (Montour County)
• $2.2 million: failure to timely diagnose and treat brain hemorrhage (Philadelphia County)
• $2.2 million: dangerous management of diabetic patient during surgery (Philadelphia County)
• $2.1 million: failure to properly diagnose lung cancer (Philadelphia County)
• $2 million: failure to properly perform spinal surgery causing CRPS (Philadelphia County)
• $2 million: failure to diagnose nasopharyngeal cancer (Eastern District of PA)
• $1.8 million: failure to adequately monitor/continue medications leading to death (Philadelphia County)
• $1.55 million: failure to timely recognize and stabilize pneumothorax and lung bleed (Philadelphia County)
• $1.5 million: failure to diagnose hypoxic brain injury (Philadelphia County)
• $1.3 million: failure to timely perform a tracheostomy on a pediatric patient (Franklin County)
• $1.05 million: failure to diagnose gastrointestinal bleed (Centre County)
• $1 million: failure to prevent brachial plexus injury (District of New Jersey)
• $1 million: failure to properly perform hip surgery (Carbon County)
• $1 million: failure to diagnose breast cancer (Chester County)
• $1 million: failure to properly and timely deliver baby (Berks County)
• 6-figure confidential settlement: failure to properly perform breast biopsy
• 6-figure confidential settlement: attack on a minor at school resulting in fractured skull
• $750,000: failure to diagnose aortic dissection (Northampton County)
• $750,000: child’s injury at a hospital (Camden County)
• $630,000: failure to perform bowel surgery (Philadelphia County)
• $625,000: failure to timely diagnose a stroke (Philadelphia County)
• $600,000: failure to properly perform spinal surgery (Chester County)
• $600,000: failure to treat HBP (hypertensive crisis) (Lehigh County)
• $550,000: failure to diagnose pulmonary embolus (Bucks County)
• $500,000: death during routine operation (Philadelphia County)
• $500,000: failure to diagnose infection (Lehigh County)
• $500,000: attack on a minor
• $475,000: failure to anticoagulated after leg surgery resulting in pulmonary emboli (Luzerne County)
• $465,000: failure to properly perform hysterectomy (Philadelphia County)
• $450,000: failure to properly perform kyphoplasty (Lehigh County)
• $450,000: failure to properly treat a bed sore (Philadelphia County)
• $425,000: failure to timely diagnose a stroke (Philadelphia County)
• $425,000: improperly performing surgery on a patient with achalasia (Delaware County)
• $375,000: attack at hospital by patient (Schuylkill County)
• $300,000: failure to diagnose and treat stroke (Lackawanna County)
• $235,000: failure to properly place G tube (Montgomery County)
• Countless other verdicts and settlements throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey!

Personal Injury

• $9.4 million: mother and three children catastrophically injured in a motor vehicle accident as they exited an Exxon gas station (Philadelphia County)
• $9.2 million: Union plasterers on a construction site during the conversion of The Sterling at 18th and JFK Boulevard station (Philadelphia County)
• $4.154 million: for an automobile accident in which a young woman nursery schoolteacher sustained a broken back (Montgomery County)
• $3.6 million: Union laborer who was injured on a construction site (Philadelphia County)
• $3.4 million: Union laborer who was injured on a construction site during the conversion of the City Hall Annex to the Marriott Courtyard Hotel (Philadelphia County)
• $3 million: automobile accident resulting in catastrophic injuries (Philadelphia County)
• $2.4 million: dangerous product causing choking hazard (Middle District of PA)
• $1.8 million: wrongful death/survival action in a cross-over accident on Route 309 (New Jersey)
• $1.240 million: construction worker who sustained life-altering injuries to his right foot and ankle when a co-worker knocked him off of the roof of a residential home being constructed (Montgomery County)
• $1.2 million: incident at an amusement park (New Jersey)
• $875,000: dental student who sustained a closed head injury in an automobile accident (Philadelphia County)
• $872,000: failure to properly maintain gym equipment (Montgomery County)
• $850,000: vending machine installer injured on the job (Eastern District of PA)
• $800,000: independent tractor-trailer operator who was run over as a pedestrian at the Philadelphia Marine Terminal (Philadelphia County)
• $720,000: Union glazer who permanently injured his leg in a worksite accident during the construction of the new International Terminal at Philadelphia International Airport (Philadelphia County)
• $662,000: 85-year-old man who sustained a fractured skull and severe brain injury, ultimately leading to his demise, as a result of slipping and falling on black ice in the parking lot of a retirement community (Delaware County)
• $470,000: Union painter who sustained permanent injuries to his shoulder as a result of a fall-down accident on a job site (Delaware County)
• Countless other verdicts and settlements throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey!

General Litigation

• Confidential settlement: patient sexually assaulted at a psychiatric hospital (Montgomery County)
• Confidential settlement: child sexually assaulted at daycare (Philadelphia County)
• Confidential settlement: patient sexually assaulted at a nursing home (Philadelphia County)
• Confidential settlement: employee sexually assaulted by a superior (Montgomery County)
• Confidential: settlement for employee sexually assaulted by superior (Montgomery County)
• $650,000: bad faith legal malpractice claim (Philadelphia County)
• Countless other verdicts and settlements throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey!

Our Successes in Business and Individual Matters

Corporate and Business Law

• Represented a life science research product manufacturer in the sale of stock and assets, including its U.K. subsidiary to a public company
• Implemented a reorganization plan for a company with revenues in excess of $1 billion, the plan involved the liquidation or merger of more than a dozen operating subsidiaries and affiliates
• Negotiated software licensing agreements between an early-stage developer and a multinational media conglomerate
• Completed complex buy-sell agreements for a restaurant company with multiple partners and numerous real estate interests

Creditors’ Rights

• Represented various financial institutions in workout, bankruptcy proceedings, and foreclosure proceedings, including a $20 million condominium project, and an $8 million condominium project
• Negotiated and documented agreements of sale for a $3.5 million commercial building on behalf of financial investors holding REO property
• Represented a debtor in a $26 million hotel debt restructuring
• Successfully defended two secured creditors in state court litigation initiated by contractors claiming unjust enrichment and seeking the imposition of constructive trusts in an amount in excess of $2 million

Elder Law

• Instituted various guardianship proceedings for payment of fees owed to long-term-care providers
• Successfully petitioned for orphans in a dispute between a corporate trustee and the grantor of a minor’s trust

Estate Administration 

• Implemented a cryonic revocable trust
• Administered a multimillion-dollar estate with real estate located in several states
• Administered a multimillion-dollar estate that involved the sale of an operating business
• Administered an insolvent estate with a gross in excess of $4 million that included business and real estate interests

Estate Planning and Wealth Preservation

• Implemented an installment purchase of limited partnership interests by using a sophisticated estate planning tool known as an “Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust” to protect appreciated assets from exposure to excessive federal estate tax
• Designed and implemented an estate plan for a high net worth real estate developer, including wills, revocable trusts, an irrevocable life insurance trust, charitable bequests, and a long-term succession plan
• Completed a charitable lead trust for the benefit of a local university, resulting in income and estate tax savings for the donor and a transfer of $1 million to the university

Financial Services

• As lender’s counsel, structured, drafted, and closed a complex $18 million tax-free construction to permanent loan transaction for a not-for-profit entity
• Served as lender’s counsel for over $100 million in asset-based credit facilities secured by real estate and other collateral in multiple jurisdictions
• Represented lender in all aspects of foreclosure, bankruptcy, and possession of $15 million in commercial property
• Represented a regional bank in the leasehold financing of a multi-building office park in excess of $25,000,000.
• Represented a local community bank in financing the acquisition of a retail shopping center. The loan, which was over $13,000,000, closed on time despite many hurdles and tight time frames.
• As lender’s counsel, successfully documented a $17.7 million credit facility relating to a building complex including analysis of dozens of existing leases for compliance with the lender’s underwriting requirements.
• Drafted and negotiated loan documentation for a Bank for a $38 million loan for the ground acquisition and construction of a 166-unit apartment building.
• Represented lender in a $3 million loan for acquisition and construction financing of single-family low-income housing in Philadelphia.
• Served as trustee in the Subchapter V bankruptcy of an international fashion design company and helped facilitate confirmation of a consensual plan of reorganization in that case.
• Representing the mortgage lenders in the ongoing bankruptcies of two New Jersey shore-area commercial real property owners/managers in connection the lenders’ mortgages securing debt in excess of $5,000,000.00.
• Representing a large regional lender, negotiated, documented and closed a sophisticated $35 million construction loan to build a luxury hotel in Delaware.
• Representing a national bank in the work out of an $8 million real estate loan secured by a twelve-acre suburban property and office building and a regional bank in the work-out of a $16 million construction loan secured by a mixed-use development property.

Land Use And Zoning

• Facilitated a unique partnership between local municipalities and a private developer to improve telecommunication infrastructure construction and development process
• Successfully secured zoning and land development for an 85-unit age-restricted housing complex in Elkins Park for Federation Housing
• Represented a synagogue in a landmark federal case with claims based on violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA)

Real Estate

• Represented a regional commercial developer in all aspects of the development of several large shopping center projects and a multitude of free-standing retail properties
• Represented a charitable organization in the purchase, financing, and zoning of the Elkins Estate, a venerable 42-acre landmark
• Represented a regional commercial real estate investment partnership in connection with the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of retail drugstore properties
• Represented landlords in the negotiation of leases and operation and easement agreements with some of the nation’s largest “big box” retailers such as Lowes, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, and Old Navy
• Obtained a $5 million settlement and a court-ordered receivership in a partnership dispute concerning a real estate development and management company