Representative agriculture experience:

• Representing a major agricultural lender in peanut-related litigation in a Georgia Superior Court.
• Lead trial counsel for one of the largest integrated poultry companies in the United States in the successful defense of claims brought under the Packers & Stockyards Act and the Agricultural Fair Practices Act.
• Served as counsel to a large cooperative representing egg producers.
• Representing a large peanut marketing company in litigation involving long-term peanut supply contracts.
• Trial counsel for a large integrated poultry company in a week-long jury trial in the Superior Court of Walton County, Georgia. The jury awarded the company more than $630,000 in damages on its breach of contract claims and awarded the defendant nothing on its counterclaim.
• Counsel for a large integrated poultry company in the successful defense of claims arising out of a delayed freight train. The arbitration panel found for the company on all claims and awarded the plaintiff nothing.
• Counsel to numerous produce companies in successful efforts to obtain injunctive and monetary relief in Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act cases in federal and state courts.

Representative fiduciary litigation experience:

• Lead trial counsel for co-trustees and co-executors in the successful defense against multi-million dollar claims for breach of fiduciary duty and other torts. The trial court granted a summary judgment in our clients’ favor and there was no appeal.
• Counsel for a charitable foundation’s trustees in a successful appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court in a case involving the disposition of a multi-million dollar estate.

Representative other litigation experience:

• Obtained a judgment for more than $5 million as trial counsel in a breach of fiduciary duties case in the Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia.
• Lead trial counsel for a worldwide transportation and logistics company in two arbitrations seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for shipments of computers that had been lost or damaged by trucking firms. Both arbitration panels awarded the company all the damages it sought.
• Counsel for a Fortune 25 company in the successful defense of the constitutionality of the North Carolina punitive damages cap in a case involving a jury verdict of $20,000 in compensatory damages but $23 million in punitive damages.