Prosecuted claims relative to CPA and his company involving business break-up with former partners, including allegations of unfair trade practice, breach of fiduciary duty, misrepresentation and theft of business accounts.

Represented a consumer products manufacturing company when minority shareholders in the corporation brought suit against the company and its directors and officers alleging that the company defrauded shareholders and violated state securities laws in the partial redemption of their shares of company stock. We successfully negotiated a favorable business solution that allowed the company to dispense with the ongoing distraction of the dispute at a reasonable cost. Case pending.

The firm served as lead counsel representing BellSouth in a putative class action in which the plaintiffs alleged that BellSouth’s customer billings with respect to Universal Service Fund charges were deceptive. We obtained the dismissal of the claims on the merits in Atlanta federal district court, which decision was upheld on appeal by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. After the Georgia litigation was resolved, plaintiffs filed a substantively-identical class action in North Carolina state court. We obtained an injunction from the North Carolina federal district court enjoining the plaintiff from re-litigating the class claims in a separate state court action. On appeal, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that such an injunction was appropriate under the "relitigation exception" to the federal Anti-Injunction Act, which generally bars federal courts from enjoining actions filed in state court.

Served as lead in-house counsel representing BellSouth in this significant antitrust case, which raised issues under essential facilities doctrine and the intersection of antitrust law and the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996. The United States Supreme Court ultimately decided the antitrust liability issues in a companion case in BellSouth’s favor. Verizon Commc’ns Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP, 540 US 398 (2004).