At Reese Marketos LLP, we handle sophisticated commercial disputes in a wide range of fields, including finance, oil and gas, technology, real estate, healthcare, and investment banking. In cases involving fraud, breach of contract, fiduciary duties, trade secrets, racketeering (“RICO”), or any other contract or tort-based claim, we devise creative and efficient legal strategies that are specific to each case.
Whatever strategy we employ, however, our attorneys prepare every case with an eye toward winning at trial.
We place tremendous value on courtroom advocacy and the quality of our written work. As a part of our regular practice, we seek and defend against temporary restraining orders and injunctions, argue before judges, juries, and arbitrators across the country, and navigate each case through the legal system with an emphasis on delivering value to our clients. While it is true that “most lawsuits settle”—and in fact, in business disputes, most lawsuits should settle—our trial record allows us to maximize the settlement value of the lawsuits we handle.
A small sample of our trial wins and settlements include:
- A fraud and breach of contract verdict for our clients—two small businesses—against a leading technology company for fraud and breach of contract. The radio giant fraudulently induced our clients to sign an exclusive distribution contract guaranteeing minimum orders even though the defendant had no intent to purchase any product unless it could obtain a large government contract. When the sales didn’t materialize, the company terminated the $15 million supply contract on a pretext. Reese Marketos successfully defended the judgment before the Dallas Court of Appeals.
- A complete jury verdict for TGI Friday’s dissolving a $70 million partnership and a take-nothing verdict on the $13 million counterclaims filed against it. Reese Marketos, as lead trial counsel, represented TGI Friday’s in seeking a judicial dissolution of a partnership that owned the TGI Friday’s restaurants at DFW Airport and breach of fiduciary duty findings against one of the partners. After a six-week trial—and a 55-page jury charge with 46 questions—the jury found in favor of TGI Friday’s on each and every claim and counterclaim. On appeal, the Dallas Court of Appeals affirmed TGI Friday’s requested judicial dissolution and the jury’s findings that the defendant had breached its fiduciary duties to TGI Friday’s.
- A $2.3 million arbitration award on behalf of a trucking company in a private arbitration involving three large highway projects. The case required the parties and the arbitrator to sort through tens of thousands of trucking hauls over a 19-month period. Our client recovered all relief it requested.
- A settlement in a contract dispute between a large, national restaurant chain and its longtime fountain beverage provider. As a result of Reese Marketos’ advice and strategy, the parties were able to resolve the matter quickly, and the restaurant chain was permitted to switch to a competing fountain beverage provider for all of its restaurants across the country.