Corporate Plaintiff's Litigation

Alston & Bird’s trial lawyers have a strong record in taking the offense to protect the business interests of our clients.  When representing our clients as plaintiffs, we bring to the negotiating table and to the courtroom our extensive experience as trial lawyers. We have represented and are representing clients, as plaintiffs, in virtually all sophisticated areas of commercial practice, including antitrust, intellectual property, commercial fraud, False Claims Act, contract, telecommunications, and baby FTC Act cases.  Our trial lawyers have secured more than $1 billion in verdicts and settlements for our clients.

FLAGSHIP VICTORIES

MAN, a major German truck manufacturer, retained Alston & Bird to pursue a complicated fraudulent transfer action with counsel in Oregon against Freightliner LLC and its affiliates. MAN is a creditor of Freightliner Ltd., a Canadian subsidiary of Freightliner LLC, by virtue of an underlying lawsuit filed in the UK that resulted in an interim award of £250 million. The lawsuit in Oregon resulted in a jury verdict that asset transfers by the Canadian debtor totaling approximately $1 billion were fraudulent under Oregon’s version of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act and that MAN was entitled to $350 million in punitive damages. Throughout the case we worked very closely with counsel in Oregon, British Columbia, Ontario, the Netherlands, the UK and Germany. Trial in the fraudulent transfer case commenced on November 6, 2006 and the jury rendered its verdict on December 15, 2006.  The defendants are all subsidiaries of Daimler Chrysler AG of Stuttgart, Germany.  The National Law Journal featured the case as the largest victory in 2006.

For our client Volumetrics Medical Imaging, Inc., a high-tech start-up company, we won a $318.75 million jury verdict against an affiliate of Royal Philips Electronics for fraud and unfair and deceptive trade practices related to a joint venture between the two companies.  The National Law Journal featured the case as the 6th largest jury verdict in 2003 and the victory was noted as the largest win for a plaintiff in the history of North Carolina. 

RECOGNITION

The quality of legal skills held by the attorneys who practice plaintiff law is recognized repeatedly by third-parties such as Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Law & Politics, as well as others.   Attorneys in this practice hold leadership positions in both state bar associations and the ABA, and five are members of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

FLEXIBLITY

In plaintiff cases where our client faces the prospect of a financial recovery through either a claim or counterclaim, we have been flexible in our fee arrangements, including using contingent and results-oriented billing arrangements.